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...Serbs in Bosnia decided to seek independence, as some of their political leaders have suggested, would you support the move? Serbia recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign state and fully respects the Dayton Peace Accords. A government led by me would certainly foster stability in the Balkans...
...There were two directors on this film: the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. What was it like to work for a married couple...
...Politicians have been loath to do anything but praise a person in uniform - especially a senior commander such as Abizaid, who oversees troops in Iraq. But in a noticeable break with that tradition, Democratic Senator Mark Dayton, sounding almost like a jilted lover, openly questioned if Abizaid had been straightforward with the committee: "I always thought I could believe and trust you." Dayton then quoted at length from recent books on the Iraq War in which Abizaid in private reportedly contradicted his public upbeat support for the Administration policy in Iraq. Abizaid said he stood by his previous statements...
...Some say the State Department handles Palestinian affairs out of Washington. Perhaps it is David Welsh, the State Department envoy and a frequent visitor to the region. Others, of a conspiratorial bent, say it's done by the CIA, the U.S. military attache in Tel-Aviv or by General Dayton, the security coordinator between Palestinians and Israelis. For Palestinians, this absence of a clearly identified U.S. authority is bewildering. Palestinian officials see no coordination between these different American entities; they are not even sure to which address to direct their concerns. Compared with the 1990s, when Washington seemed ready...
...ended in war. There is risk of it going too far." While he and other diplomats say a return to war is unlikely, Pecanin is less sanguine: for the first time since the war, he said, "I am afraid for the peace here." The tensions are rooted in the Dayton peace accords, named for the Ohio town where they were hammered out in 1995. To silence the guns, the agreement created two separate ethnically based "entities," the Muslim-Croat Federation, which comprises 51% of the country, and the Serb Republic, the majority Serb area that makes up the rest. More...