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...BOSNIAN PEACE TALKS NEAR DAYTON ENTERED THEIR third week, much of the civility that had been evident in the summit's first days was gone. In its place, a kind of diplomatic cabin fever set in and provoked the delegates to carp about the character flaws of rival countries' Presidents: the crude belligerence of Croatia's Franjo Tudjman; the manipulative arrogance of Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic; the maddening--and seemingly willful--indecisiveness of Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic. The resignation of Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey suggested that tensions had grown within the Bosnian delegation. To escape the pressure, the Croatians flocked...
...governing ethnic zones. Each zone can have its own official language, its own education system and even its own set of holidays. Citizens in each area will elect their own representatives to the City Council, and the council in turn will elect a mayor and three deputy mayors--a Bosnian, a Croat and a Serb--all of whom will exchange positions every year. Other major territorial obstacles have also been overcome. Milosevic has agreed to give up the safe haven of Gorazde, connected by a corridor to Sarajevo. In return, Bosnia will give up Srebrenica and Zepa, and permit...
Constitution. The two halves of the new Bosnian nation--the Croat-Muslim federation and the Bosnian Serb "entity''--will be brought under the umbrella of a central government. The framework calls for a collective presidency, whose chairman will rotate among a Muslim, a Serb and a Croat; a constitutional court; and a multiethnic parliament...
...place, the I-FOR troops, unlike the hapless U.N. peacekeepers, will go where they please and have "the unimpeded right to observe, monitor and inspect'' whatever they like. All sides, moreover, are committed to working out military parity. To accomplish this, the U.S. will equip and train the weaker Bosnian army while the Serbs, in turn, will be required to trim back their forces...
...Criminals. For their role in atrocities against Muslim civilians that have already provoked indictments from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, Ratko Mladic, will be barred from participating in the Bosnian Serb government. Milosevic is still balking at Muslim demands that Karadzic and Mladic be extradited for trial in the Hague, despite a new round of genocide charges against the two last week for the alleged involvement in the July slaughter at Srebrenica. Nevertheless, the Serbian President has pledged to cooperate with the Tribunal...