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Milosevic handled the territorial bargaining almost without consulting the Bosnian Serbs, who were left confused and fuming. The Bosnian Serb representatives reportedly got their first look at the finished documents only 10 minutes before the final ceremony. Even though they had given Milosevic full authority to negotiate for them, there was a serious question whether they would go along with the agreement or scuttle it, as they have done with other peace plans in the past...
...answer came quickly. On Thursday, Milosevic summoned the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and eight other officials to a meeting near Belgrade. There, after a full day of tough talking, Karadzic signed on to the Dayton agreement. Experts in Belgrade said the threat hanging over Karadzic was that if he refused, Milosevic could hand him over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague. The tribunal has indicted the Bosnian Serb leader, and his military commander General Ratko Mladic, for genocide and other crimes against humanity. The Dayton agreement pledges all the governments to cooperate with...
...arrival of NATO troops, says Stiglmayer, they worry about what will happen after the soldiers leave. "The enmity between the Serbs and Muslims is deep," she says. The Serb demonstrations demanding autonomy in the city are a constant reminder of that fact. One piece of news which cheered the Bosnian Muslims of the city was the announcement by Senator Bob Dole that he was supporting the deployment of American troops. "They have always liked Dole, since he has advocated lifting of the arms embargo against them." Stiglmayer, who has spent many weeks in the bloody city over the last four...
...bill that he had previously threatened to veto to become law today without his signature. The Republican-sponsored plan allots $243 billion for the Defense Department, $7 billion more than the President had earlier said he would approve. But with an estimated $2 billion needed to pay for the Bosnian troop deployment, Clinton was hard pressed...
...Burleigh says. "It's beginning to look possible that they could keep the government running with a continuing resolution through the election year, which would give Clinton a great campaign issue." The other budget rumor circling the Hill, says Burleigh, is that congressional Republicans are trying to use the Bosnian deployment debate to wring concessions from Clinton on the budget...