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...late Tuesday. The Turkish military was prepared to attack the disputed ten-acre island on which seven Greek coast guardsmen had raised the Greek flag. "If the United States hadn't intervened, the Turks would have seized the island," said Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Bosnian peace last fall and negotiated the terms of this withdrawal in a flurry of late night phone calls. President Clinton also called Greek and Turkish leaders, as did his national security adviser Anthony Lake, Secretary of State Warren Christopher and chairman of the Joint Chiefs General John Shalikashvili. "I asked...
Washington privately scolded Bosnia and Croatia for failing to rid Bosnian soil of foreign fighters by last Friday's deadline. The U.S. is angry that Croatia has allowed some of its troops to remain inside Bosnia, and even more rattled that the Bosnian government has allowed half of the some 600 foreign mujahedin it believes were in the country to remain behind. The Pentagon fears anti-American terrorists are hidden within their ranks. Washington has threatened to cut off arms and military training for Bosnian forces if the Islamic freedom fighters aren't booted...
...between Serbs and Muslims over the weekend, hundreds of refugees ransacked a Red Cross building in Tuzla on Monday, demanding to know the whereabouts of their missing relatives. The Red Cross reported that 112 people, of a total of over 900, were still on its prisoner list. But the Bosnian government, which had initially held up the prisoner exchange, claims that thousands of Muslims are still missing and unaccounted for. The Red Cross blamed the government for "aggressive and irresponsible" statements that promoted the violence against its offices...
Bringing bags of mail, 200 cases of Coca-Cola and 5,000 Hershey bars, President Clinton paid a morale-boosting visit to nearly 1,000 American soldiers at the airfield in Tuzla, Bosnia. The President also met with Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian leaders...
BELGRADE: Meeting on Monday with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights John Shattuck made it clear that the United States expects Milosevic to help resolve the war crimes issue. So far the international tribunal in The Hague has indicted 45 Serbs and seven Bosnian Croats, including once-close Milosevic allies Gen. Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, but has been able to arrest only one person. On Sunday, Shattuck visited an area near the former Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, up to now sealed from all allied officials and reporters, where as many as 7,000 civilians...