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Even as the leaders of the three warring Balkan countries begin talks today in Dayton, Ohio, peace seems increasingly elusive. Monday night, the House of Representatives sent the Clinton Administration by passing a resolution, 315 to 103, recommending that the President not send American troops to Bosnia, a commitment demanded by the Bosnians, Croats and Serbs as a condition for peace. Special U.S envoy Richard Holbrooke, who has masterminded a temporary peace and orchestrated the Dayton meeting, was furious at the eleventh-hour interference. He told reporters yesterday that it "greviously interferes with the negotiating process of peace. Any member...
...televised speech from the White House this morning, President Clinton called the Dayton meeting "the best chance" for peace as well as "the last chance." The President responded to the House resolution by saying that he would, "when the time came," seek congressional "expression of support" for sending American troops to Bosnia. But he emphasized that no troops would be going until and unless a peace is agreed to by the warring parties. TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says that Clinton "is staking an awful lot on the success of the peace talks. If they fail, he has failed and Bosnia...
...first time that we saw solid evidence that Mladic was there, when the killings were taking place. And Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic may have to work something out for him in the peace plan. Will he allow Mladic to be put on trial? That could make things in Dayton more difficult." The other great dilemna, says Barnes, who just returned from Bosnia, is that "nobody has behaved honorably in the face of these atrocities. And there were no real lessons learned from Srebenica. The same thing happened at the beginning of October around Banja Luka. Men were separated from women...
...commitment. Last week the indefatigable Holbrooke was flitting between the Balkan capitals in an effort to, as he told TIME, "get fuller compliance" on the region's fragile cease-fire. It was his final trip before three-way peace talks, refereed by the U.S., kick off Oct. 31 in Dayton, Ohio. While those negotiations promise to be rancorous, the Presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia are eventually expected to emerge from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with an agreement. And soon thereafter, 20,000 U.S. soldiers will be en route to blood-soaked Bosnia...
Just a week before international talks begin in Dayton, Ohio, to map out a single Bosnian state, the Bosnian Serb assembly voted itself an escape clause. The demand, which requires approval of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, would allow Serb leaders to hold a referendum on the new nation after a year. TIME's Bruce Van Voorst says that Milosevic is likely to reject both demands, and that the vote may simply be part of the Serb negotiating strategy: "It's not clear how much clout Milosevic has with the Bosnian Serbs. But it could be that Milosevic asked for this...