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...WHAT CROATIA'S PRESIDENT FRANJO TUDJMAN is trying to do is to free the Krajina region totally from the Serbian army of occupation [Croatia, March 20]. Let's not forget the U.S.'s own history, when colonists were compelled to deal with the British in exactly the same manner. To tag Tudjman a warlord is to imply that the "Father of Our Country," George Washington, was not a Founding Father but just another vain warlord...
...Croatia Allows U.N. to Stay...
Reversing his decision to boot 12,000 U.N. troops from his country on March 31, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman agreed to allow a much smaller force of some 5,000 troops under a new mandate that will include patrolling Croatia's borders with Serbia and Bosnia...
According to the document, classified secret, the U.S. and Croatia have reached "'understandings for a new international presence'' in Croatia. Tudjman will allow the U.N. contingent to stay at least until June 30, by which time it must be scaled back to 5,000, who can remain until Sept. 15. In return, Washington is prepared to give Tudjman a say in who makes up the new force and what it will be called. Because he publicly vowed to remove the old force, dubbed UNPROFOR, a different name will allow the Croatian leader to save face. Whereas Tudjman wanted the peacekeepers...
...Serbs, with at least the tacit approval of their leaders. The report, based on aerial photographs and firsthand accounts, comes just as the U.S. and its European allies are portraying Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic as a peacemaker, seeking to lure him into serious negotiations with the Bosnian government and Croatia. Meanwhile, in northwestern Bosnia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees cut emergency food aid to more than 100,000 Croatian Serbs and Muslim rebels, saying their leaders were making relief efforts impossible...