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...LEADERS OF BOSNIA, CROATIA and Serbia crept toward a peace agreement last week at the U.S.-led talks in Dayton, Ohio, Bill Clinton must have sensed the possibility of a big score. Finally he would have an answer to those who have accused him of fecklessness on foreign policy. No longer could anyone call him "the Governor of the United States," uninterested in and incapable of fulfilling his duties as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. After all, the Europeans had spent several years trying to solve the Bosnia problem, and they had botched it. Now, after...
...matter what the good news from Dayton, then, there's no reason to expect out of this President, this Congress and this public any great resurgence of international leadership. But there are good reasons to believe the U.S. will not hibernate...
Whether they go depends on the peace talks in Dayton, but if those negotiations succeed, the U.S. Army could move fast. NATO plans, still secret, call for immediate American help in setting up a communications and logistics headquarters in Bosnia. Close on their heels, the Implementation Force, or I-FOR, of 60,000 troops--20,000 American--would stream into Bosnia. The provisions of the peace agreement now being discussed would give NATO's military peace force a license to throw its weight around throughout Bosnia. They could also involve the I-FOR in a fire fight the first time...
...BOSNIAN PEACE TALKS NEAR DAYTON ENTERED THEIR third week, much of the civility that had been evident in the summit's first days was gone. In its place, a kind of diplomatic cabin fever set in and provoked the delegates to carp about the character flaws of rival countries' 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...
...final details included agreements to preserve safe passage for each side through territory controlled by the other in the delicate jigsaw puzzle forged in Dayton. Muslims and Croats, for example, are assured a safe corridor through Serbian territory from Sarajevo to the Muslim city of 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...