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...French newspaper reports that the two pilots released by the Serbs on the eve of the Paris peace treaty ceremony were tortured during their three-and-a-half month imprisonment. At one point, said the paper, Le Canard Enchaine, Gen. Ratko Mladic, the commander of the Bosnian Serbs now under indictment for war crimes, told the two men that they would be tortured and killed. The newspaper reports that the French government told the pilots to give the public a calm rendition of their captivity. "But," says TIME?s Bruce Crumley, "the paper contends that when they were debriefed by military...
...Admiral Leighton Smith went to Pale, the heart of Bosnian Serb territory, on Tuesday to discuss details of the transition to peace. As a reminder of how close to war they still are, Smith and his party, including a dozen bodyguards, traveled in armored vehicles and entered the Serb compound only after a Navy security detail had scouted the area for potential problems. Smith pointedly snubbed leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear...
...BOSNIAN PEACE SIGNED...
...Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia signed a treaty in Paris. President Clinton also signed it, along with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Spain, at a ceremony in the Elysee Palace. Under the agreement, Bosnia will be partitioned into two roughly equal parts--one for Bosnian Serbs, another for a Muslim-Croat federation. In Bosnia, advance teams from nato's 60,000-strong peacekeeping force were battling only record snows in the initial stages of their deployment...
Just two days before the treaty signing, Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic released two French pilots who were shot down during a nato bombing raid Aug. 30. Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lieut. Jose Souvignet were freed after France put intense pressure on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic...