Word: croatians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promises of his 1992 election campaign, President Clinton made the decision in late July that the time had come for the war in Bosnia to end. Clinton stiffened the resolve of our NATO allies and launched Holbrooke's diplomatic mission into the heart of the war. Aided by Croatian military victories in early August and a powerful NATO air assault several weeks later, the American mission convinced the Serbs that time was finally working against them. The result was the Dayton conference where after weeks of secluded talks and intense American pressure, the three Balkan presidents managed to agree...
...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 TV in Packie's, a sports bar at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where they could watch the Chicago Bulls and root for the star Croatian forward, Toni Kukoc. "They are all sick of the confinement and the artificiality of it," said an American official...
...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...
...Goradze. Serbs won protection on the Posavina corridor, which connects a Serb area in western Bosnia with the main Serb territory in the east to a passage through what will now be Muslim-Croat territory. "It looks as if the crucial event was President Clinton's call to Croatian President Franjo Tudjman yesterday," says Graff. "That might have convinced the Croats to switch sides on the Posavina corridor issue. That will not make the Bosnian Muslims and Croats happy, since the Posavina corridor divides two parts of Bosnian territory which they would rather see united, but they got a major...
...State Warren Christopher called "an essential building block to peace," Croats and Muslims signed an agreement at talks in Dayton, Ohio, to strengthen their political and economic federation, which would control one part of Bosnia; the remaining territory would be Serb-run. But lest the meetings become too productive, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman renewed his threat to retake a strip of Serb-held territory in eastern Croatia if negotiations do not provide its return by Nov. 30. Christopher warned Croatian leaders not to use force...