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...offers far more hope to the peoples of Bosnia than the continuation of a war whose only certainty would be more death. The accord preserves a unified Bosnia within internationally recognized borders, even while it vests substantial political authority in the two republics that divide the country, the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serb Republic. Sarajevo will remain a united capital under Federation control, international monitors will supervise free elections and the protection of human rights and no one charged with war crimes will be allowed to hold political office...
...insist this is not a partition and that Bosnia is a unified state, but other observers, including Bosnians, are not so sure. The Bosnian Serb holdings, the Republika Srpska, total 49% of the land. The other entity is a federation of Muslims-- called Bosniacs in the documents--and Bosnian Croats. All citizens will be free to travel in both parts of the country, and roadblocks and checkpoints are to come down. Both entities will have presidents and legislatures, and so will the central government, which is carefully weighted to reflect the Bosniac, Croat and Serb ethnic groups...
...effort to bring the Serbs back up to 49%, the Americans had tried to find some sparsely settled spots in Croat areas. That set off one of the worst tussles, over the so-called Posavina corridor, the narrow strip in the north, at the top of the map of Bosnia, that links Serb holdings in the northwest of the country with those in the east. Milosevic continued to seek a wider corridor. But Tudjman balked at handing over the parts held by Bosnian Croats as compensation for Serb losses elsewhere. This time Bill Clinton had to step in. He phoned...
...soldiers, around 200 of them American. NATO would then start sending in the main I-FOR the day after the peace is signed in Paris. NATO's southern command would set up a forward headquarters in Sarajevo, and six days later I-FOR would begin separating the Bosnian, Croat and Serb armies. I-FOR would not, however, be able to complete its move into the country until after the New Year...
...have my soldiers condemned to watch an exodus of Serbs who will burn their houses before leaving," a French newspaper quoted General Jean-Rene Bachelet as having said over the weekend. Bachelet reportedly added that the peace pact, which puts the divided city under control of the Muslim-Croat federation, would force the Serbs of Sarajevo to choose between "the suitcase or the coffin." The French Defense Minister, who ordered Bachelet home, said the general's opinions were not those of the French government. TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris: "Despite the fact that the French have been basically...