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...gathered behind the diplomatic table at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, last week. When Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina walked to his chair, he focused his gaze downward and barely touched the proffered hands of his counterparts, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia. As the three leaders initialed the stacks of documents that would end the 44-month war among these South Slavs, each gave the impression he was sitting behind an invisible wall, making no contact with the others...
...elections are carried out as prescribed, the central government may never become a functioning administration that can earn citizens' loyalty. Under the agreement, both entities in the new state are permitted to establish parallel links with neighboring countries. That means the Serbs with Serbia and the Croats with Croatia. The biggest worry for Bosniacs is that those links will turn into de facto secession and that Milosevic and Tudjman may yet divide up Bosnia...
...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 to the wide-screen...
Territory. The thorniest issue of all--and an area where remarkable progress has been made. The first break came when Tudjman and Milosevic agreed that control over Eastern Slavonia, the sliver of Croatia ruled by rebel Serbs since 1991, would revert to Zagreb's control in a year or, under certain conditions, two. That was followed by a compromise on the cornerstone issue: Sarajevo. It will remain, at least in name, an "undivided city'' (as the Muslims demand), but it will be partitioned into nine self-governing ethnic zones. Each zone can have its own official language, its own education...
...major concession that one diplomat called "the start of the end of the war in the ex-Yugoslavia," separatist Serbs in Croatia agreed to return a slice of oil-rich territory they had seized in 1991. The Eastern Slavonia region bordering Serbia will revert to Croatian control after a one-year transition period, which can be extended to two years by either party, with a U.N. administration during the transition...