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...Dobrynin saw the cold war from an extraordinary vantage point: as the main conduit for a quarter-century of Kremlin-White House secret negotiations. As dubious exposes and skimpy memoirs poured out of the Soviet Union following its 1991 collapse, Dobrynin's remained the great untold story. Now the diplomat who had such confidence in his memory that he never took notes until meetings were over has put it all down in writing and delivered it to the world...
...BOSNIA... Bosnia, Croatia and Yugo slavia--the latter acting for the Bosnian Serbs--reached an agreement that maintains Bosnia's territorial integrity but creates a separate Bosnian Serb state within its borders. The talks, held in Geneva, were "an important milestone in the search for peace," said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke. Further negotiations on the deal, which gives the aggressor Serbs a full 49% of Bosnia, are to resume this week...
Such earnest talk may leave cynics wondering whether the Clintonites were still analyzing leadership more than exercising it. The early reports are not encouraging. "The whole deck was reshuffled," said one German diplomat after the meeting in Bonn, "and Lake and Tarnoff came here not showing a great deal of imagination." A French diplomat called the U.S. visit a "very positive element" and said, "We feel that the Contact Group should first develop a common approach and then present it to the parties in ex-Yugoslavia." It would appear that in neither case did the Americans take charge...
...back to another prepared position until it reached an area that was finally defensible. Experts deemed it a reasonable strategy; not only is Krajina too large to defend in its entirety, but the weight of both geography and history were on their side. "They are frontiersmen," said one Western diplomat in Belgrade, who pointed out that Serbs were first sent to Krajina by the Austro-Hungarian Empire as a buffer against the Turks. "These guys were the eternal defense." On Saturday night, however, the situation took an unexpected twist when word arrived that the entire Krajina Serb army seemed...
...British diplomat quoted in the New York Times on July 24, 1995, commenting from London on the situation in Bosnia...