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...would the U.S. need MPRI? The Dayton accord calls for disarmament negotiations to reduce the Bosnian Serbs' military edge over the weaker Muslim-Croat Federation. While its European allies vigorously disagree, the U.S. believes that even if arms control shrinks the Bosnian Serb arsenal, the federation will require new weaponry to ensure a military balance in the region. The accord allows arms to start flowing into the region beginning in mid-March. "We will not be able to leave unless the Bosnian government is armed and prepared to defend itself," says Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. "That...
...secret, just finished report that cost $400,000 to prepare, the Pentagon has determined the Bosnians' military needs. The study concludes that the Bosnian Serbs' advantage could be erased by giving the Muslim-Croat Federation about 50 tanks plus similar numbers of artillery and armored vehicles, say Pentagon officials familiar with the findings. The Muslims also need antitank and antimortar weapons, light arms and basics like boots and bullets. In an indication of how important MPRI's role would be, the report contends that the forces need more training than arming, especially in tactics for midsize units involving hundreds...
Moving swiftly to establish authority, Major General William Nash, commander of the American forces in Bosnia, gathered leaders of the region's three warring factions to talk peace. The general met with a Bosnian Serb, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian army leader, of whom he said, "All of them focused on peace and pledged their determination to succeed with respect to the peace accord." Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, meanwhile, were rebuffed by Admiral Leighton Smith, overall commander of the nato-led force, when they sought to delay the reunification of the Bosnian capital; the peace treaty demands that areas...
...violence was underscored when two grenades and a mortar fired from the direction of Serb-held territory exploded in an unoccupied area of Sarajevo only minutes after the signing ceremony had flickered off TV screens. On the same day, Bosnian government forces shot at a French helicopter, and Croat soldiers clashed with mujahedin, Islamic volunteers fighting on the side of the Muslims, and killed...
...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...