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...leave open -- probably up to the expiration of the ultimatum -- whether they will provoke air strikes or not. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic makes the absurd claim that the Muslims faked the whole market carnage, using mannequins, professional actors to portray the wounded and old corpses provided by obliging Croat forces, who would have had to smuggle them into Sarajevo through Serb lines. Jovan Zametica, spokesman for the self-described Bosnian Serb government, remarks, "If NATO aircraft attack, we'll take them out." Drunken Serb soldiers on a hillside south of the capital mock the NATO threat. Bosnian troops...
Postscript: a day later and 50 miles away, a mortar shell arced out of the surrounded Muslim enclave in Mostar and crashed into a playground in the Croat section of the city. The explosion killed three boys and a girl, all between...
...foreign ministers of Croatia and the Serbian-led rump state of Yugoslavia signed an agreement in Geneva to improve their relations and to open diplomatic offices in each other's capital beginning Feb. 15. Diplomats feared that the separate Serb-Croat agreement could be a precursor to overt military cooperation against Bosnia...
...provinces with their drinking and womanizing, but the U.N. could not discipline them. A U.N. task force has been created to investigate alleged black marketeering by peacekeepers, as well as charges that blue helmets regularly visited a Serb-run brothel outside Sarajevo whose "prostitutes" were in fact Muslim and Croat prisoners...
...anything but trigger-happy. Why, then, is Clinton marching resolutely toward the deployment of U.S. soldiers to help NATO police Bosnia? The President promised the forces once the warring parties all agree on a settlement. The one now about to be signed will dismember the country into Serb, Croat and Muslim zones and allow the Serb and Croat regions to secede in two years. Senior U.S. officials say enforcement should not be too bloody because all three sides will gain from peace. But reluctant units must be disarmed, thousands of refugees relocated and safe passage corridors patrolled in a land...