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...however, the very qualities that aroused such antipathy among Holbrooke's rivals in Washington equipped him ideally for browbeating the men who were running the Bosnian war--Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At times the ruthless Balkan bosses--especially Milosevic--probably saw something of themselves reflected in Holbrooke. He stroked their egos, he laughed at their jokes, he drank their plum brandy--Milosevic praised his skill as a "bulls------ artist." But Holbrooke was also tough. Once, when Izetbegovic was hesitating over a cease-fire agreement, he barked...
...joint Muslim-Croat institutions has been slow, and the promises to return refugees to their homes within Federation territory have gone largely unfulfilled. Many Bosnian Croats harbor hopes to unite their territory with a "Greater Croatia," and much will depend upon whether European economic inducements can encourage Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to support the success of the Federation...
...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 an invisible wall, making no contact with the others...
...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 to the wide-screen TV in Packie...
...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. "That might have convinced the Croats to switch sides on the Posavina corridor issue. That will not make the Bosnian Muslims and Croats happy, since the Posavina corridor divides two parts of Bosnian territory which they would rather see united, but they got a major concession...