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...independent nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina is about to disappear. Her ravenous Serb and Croat neighbors are closing in for the kill. The future of Bosnia's mainly Muslim population--if it has any--remains to be seen...
...Serb, Croat and Muslim Bosnian leaders agreed to a cease-fire, despite the failures of the three that have preceded it during the past 15 months. At peace talks in Geneva, the Presidents of adjoining Serbia and Croatia suggested splitting Bosnia into three regions, each ethnically homogeneous. The idea was rejected by Bosnian President and Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic. Lord Owen, the British mediator and co-author of an earlier, much more complicated gerrymandering peace plan, said the new idea might not be the fairest or the best but that "the Muslim government would be well advised to look very...
...their vital interests and so could not make a credible threat of force. Last week Clinton underscored the ultimate irrelevance of the U.N. mission in Bosnia by virtually abandoning its government. The U.S., he said, would live with the country's partition into ethnic enclaves to reflect Serb and Croat territorial gains...
...Christopher had previously denounced as a reward to the Serbs. Then, after weeks of public hand-wringing over Serb gains and promises to get tough, he settled on "lift and strike": lifting the arms embargo on the Bosnian government that keeps it outgunned 10 to 1 by Serb and Croat forces, and bombing Serbian artillery that is pounding Muslim towns filled with refugees. But he did nothing to sell this plan to the Congress or the public -- he did not even publicly admit adopting it until after it was rejected -- and he dispatched Christopher with orders to "consult" the Europeans...
...intelligence sources say the three main factions involved in the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina have hired nearly 20,000 foreign mercenaries since 1991 -- including some Americans. The marauding Bosnian Serbs have hired technical experts from Romania and Greece as well as fighting Russian cossacks; the Croat forces have recruited Canadian and American soldiers of fortune; and the Muslim forces have brought in mercenaries, not surprisingly, from Islamic countries -- Iran, Pakistan and Turkey...