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...Washington Bosnian and Croatian leaders signed two documents to establish a Bosnian federation and link it to Croatia. Real peace in Bosnia, said Secretary of State Warren Christopher, is "a ways down the road," but he hoped these pacts would "provide the basis for a larger political settlement, which must also include the Bosnian Serbs...
...more chain-smoking attendants than even the Texan rock-star aspirant seated across the green room. While there is no faux blond manager in black crochet at the young Bosnian girl's disposal, her entourage is a solicitous group that includes her lawyer father and chemist mother, their Serbo-Croatian translator, a publicist and a representative from Zlata's French publisher, whose apparent purpose is to help make the Filipovics' stay more enjoyable by suggesting they go see The Phantom of the Opera or -- less likely -- Schindler's List...
There are advantages in linking the Croats and Muslims. It would end their territorial disputes and give them some joint strength against the Serbs. The Bosnian government would no longer have to worry about access to the sea -- it could use Croatian ports -- or about whether its country was too tiny and fragmented to be economically viable. Washington hopes the majority Muslim % government could be more flexible in making territorial concessions to the Serbs if they were joined with the Croats...
Croats and Muslims fighting elsewhere in Bosnia agreed to halt hostilities. Negotiating under U.N. auspices in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, representatives of the warring factions agreed to place heavy weapons along front lines under U.N. control, as in Sarajevo, by noon on March 7. Meanwhile, in a major policy shift, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman said he would accept the idea of a Croat-Muslim state within Bosnia...
While the recent ultimatum against the Bosnian Serbs appears to have been a success, it is only the beginning of NATO's involvement in the war-ravaged country. Sarajevo is just one of the many Muslim towns surrounded by Serbian and Croatian guns, and a viable Muslim state is still a distant prospect...