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...territory the Muslim-Croats seized in the past three days brought the division of land the two sides now control even closer to the 51-49 split agreed to in the negotiations," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. Before the NATO offensive, Waller notes, Serbs held approximately 70 percent of Bosnian territory. Pentagon officials tell Waller that Croat-Muslim forces now hold a significantly greater chunk of Bosnia. "Thursday, the CIA and Pentagon had revised their percentages for what the sides held to 55 percent for the Bosnian Serbs and 45 percent for the Muslim-Croats. Today, Pentagon officials...
...problem is the map, the division of which is predicated on the principle, established last July by the Contact Group, that Bosnia will technically remain one nation but will be internally divided, with 49% of the land going to the Bosnian Serbs and 51% going to the Croat-Muslim federation. While it now appears that all parties, including the Bosnian Serbs, have agreed to the proportions, Holbrooke said that everyone has a different version of which land goes to whom...
...looters. Along the roadsides, hundreds of bicycles lay twisted by treads of Croatian armor. There were also bodies. The corpses of two Serbs who had been fleeing on a tractor lay next to a recently harvested field. By midweek nearly every house had had its front door kicked in. Croat soldiers had casually sorted through rooms, collecting what was desirable and often setting fire to a house once they were done. Near the town of Slunj, Milka Jurcic, a 73-year-old woman wearing an apron that still displayed its price tag, trundled along a deserted road. She was pushing...
...demonstrably strong Croatia could act as a counterweight to Serbia; a defeat for the Serbs might make them more amenable to negotiation; and a reintegrated Krajina would no longer be a source of instability. As American and European diplomats point out, the map looks much simpler with Krajina in Croat hands, the isolated eastern enclaves in Serb hands and some sort of Bosnia in the middle, making the way to a settlement clearer...
Just days after the Croatian army broke the seige ofthe Bihac safe area, Serb forces appear ready to strike back. From Bihac, TIME's Edward Barnes reports that a massive combined force of Krajina and Bosnian Serbs is approaching the town from the south. Croat and Bosnian Muslim army officials expect a major battle for the area within the next few days...