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...PEACE WAS AT HAND, WHY DID ITS makers look so somber? The three Balkan Presidents were pale and hollow-eyed as they gathered behind the diplomatic table at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, last week. When Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina walked to his chair, he focused his gaze downward and barely touched the proffered hands of his counterparts, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia. As the three leaders initialed the stacks of documents that would end the 44-month war among these South Slavs, each gave the impression he was sitting behind...
TIME's Alexandra Niksic reports that the Bosnian Serb government issued a statement Thursday supporting the Dayton peace accord. "They pledged to help implement the agreement and have called for the establishment of 'local headquarters' in each town to oversee the implementation," says Niksic. The leaders of the Serb neighborhoods of Sarajevo and Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic have also been quiet over the last two days, a further sign, Niksic says, that "they may be getting used to the agreement." Meanwhile, General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military commander who disappeared from public view after threatening violence two weeks...
...inches away," said a frustrated U.S. official, just before the three Presidents, who had been repeatedly coaxed "to the edge''of the table, once again backed off. Their skittishness did not stem only from a concern that they may get a better deal; the "Rabin effect," as Dayton insiders call it, took hold, as the Presidents were worried that if they appeared to give away too much, they might be assassinated at home...
...corridor to Sarajevo. In return, Bosnia will give up Srebrenica and Zepa, and permit a widening of the Posavina corridor, which links Serb-controlled Bosnian territories in the northwest and northeast with each other and with Serbia. These concessions have caused strong protests by Croats and Bosnians in Dayton and at home...
...sources say remaining issues could be resolved quickly once the Presidents steel themselves to initial an agreement. Of course, whether solutions crafted on paper can withstand the test of experience will not be answered in Dayton. But the test, at least, will finally begin...