Word: croat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week build on Serbia's acceptance, given last July, of the peace plan put forth by the so-called Contact Group, composed of the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and Russia; that proposal envisages the future Bosnia as a union of the Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska and the Bosnian-Croat federation, on the basis of a 49%-51% allocation of territory. Milosevic would not only recognize the union but also make certain that the peace plan is accepted by the so far intransigent Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Serbia would in addition promise to seal more effectively its frontier with...
...allies' aversion to conducting that kind of mission in the winter means a decision to withdraw must be made in the next month. But weather is only one of many prospective problems. All the armed factions -- Bosnian, Croat and Serb -- have attacked the peacekeepers in the past, and could assault the retreating troops. The two-lane roads thread through mountains, giving an edge to those seeking to frustrate the pullout. Masses of refugees, fearing slaughter once the U.N. forces leave, would also hamper an operation. "The Muslims know that once the pullout is over, genocide is just around the corner...
...Croatian Serbs from pressing for the expulsion of U.N. peacekeepers from Croatia. Milosevic obliged. But what he cared most about was his plan, which Richardson took back to Washington. In it, Milosevic said Yugoslavia would recognize, among other things, "that Bosnia-Herzegovina should be a union of the Bosnian Croat federation and the Republika Srpska," both equal and both with the right to confederate with Croatia and Serbia, respectively. The Bosnian Muslims, without an adjacent motherland to support them, would be left in the lurch...
...just an ordinary man who, by the circumstance of his position, can help by having a policy of peace, one that is honest and objective to all sides. We accepted the Contact Group plan [which proposed a 51-49 division of war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Bosnian-Croat federation and the Bosnian Serbs]. Before that, we accepted whatever plan was more or less evenhanded. We said from the beginning that there is only one solution for Bosnia and Herzegovina: one that will protect equally the interests of [the Serbs, the Muslims and the Croats...
...Benjamin C. Bradlee, former editor the Post, told the Boston Globe last Friday that "[the Croat's document] wasn't 37,000 words; it was more like...