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...help of Richard Holbrooke to help negotiate the removal of war-crime suspect Radovan Karadzic. Holbrooke, the negotiator who played a crucial role in the talks that led to the Dayton agreement, departed Monday for a series of talks with Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic, the same group that hashed out the Dayton peace accords. "Holbrooke might succeed where others have failed because of his special credibility after Dayton," says TIME's Dean Fischer. "He also enjoys a close relationship with Milosevic." The State Department has been trying to keep Karadzic...
...help of Richard Holbrooke to help negotiate the removal of war-crime suspect Radovan Karadzic. Holbrooke, the negotiator who played a crucial role in the talks that led to the Dayton agreement, departed Monday for a series of talks with Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic, the same group that hashed out the Dayton peace accords. "Holbrooke might succeed where others have failed because of his special credibility after Dayton," says TIME's Dean Fischer. "He also enjoys a close relationship with Milosevic." The State Department has been trying to keep Karadzic...
...help of Richard Holbrooke to help negotiate the removal of war-crime suspect Radovan Karadzic. Holbrooke, the negotiator who played a crucial role in the talks that led to the Dayton agreement, departed Monday for a series of talks with Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic, the same group that hashed out the Dayton peace accords. "Holbrooke might succeed where others have failed because of his special credibility after Dayton," says TIME's Dean Fischer. "He also enjoys a close relationship with Milosevic." The State Department has been trying to keep Karadzic...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina: After a weekend standoff between U.S. soldiers and Bosnian Serbs that culminated with the Serbs threatening to fire on American helicopters, Serbs shot at six Portuguese U.N. troops Monday. No one was injured in the two incidents, but they mark the heightening tensions in the Serb-controlled area of Han Pijesak, headquarters of Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic, who was indicted for genocide by the Bosnia war crimes tribunal. The Portuguese soldiers were heading east of Sarajevo to deliver food supplies when several shots were fired from nearby woods, hitting the last vehicle in the convoy...
...over there are such that if U.S. troops withdraw, then war could break out again." Some 20,000 U.S. troops have been stationed in Bosnia along with 40,000 other NATO troops in an effort to separate the warring factions and facilitate the formation of a new federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats. But unless NATO can arm and train the two groups, the Serbs are likely to prevail with their considerable military arsenal. Plans to supply $800 million worth of military training and supplies are in the works, but have been delayed. Thompson doubts that keeping U.S. troops...