Word: herzegovina
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Besieged by Serb and Croat forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
...INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY dithered on the margins of the crisis in Yugoslavia, the anguish continued in beleaguered Bosnia-Herzegovina. An aid convoy bound for the town of Srebenica, where some 80,000 Muslims have been trapped by fighting for months, was blocked at the Serbian border for days by Serb militiamen and angry, jeering civilians. A convoy to Goradze was delayed after an escorting personnel carrier hit a mine...
...question, however, is who will be hurt. Even in its newly sharpened form, the embargo remains a blunt instrument. So far, it has done nothing to stop the war still blazing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The popularity of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has sunk, but he sits as firmly as ever in the saddle. What the sanctions have done is deepen the state of economic extremis for most people in Serbia and Montenegro. By the end of the year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million...
ONLY FIGURATIVELY WAS THERE A GUN TO HIS HEAD, but that was sufficient. In Geneva the diplomatic efforts of Bosnia-Herzegovina's President Alija Izetbegovic fell into step with the daunting military reality at home. With his mostly Muslim government forces in control of less than a 10th of the republic's territory, Izetbegovic acquiesced to a proposal by U.N. mediators to allow his country to be divided into 10 autonomous regions. Negotiators stressed that boundaries would be drawn strictly on geographical and economic rather than ethnic criteria, with some functions preserved for the Sarajevo government. But because Izetbegovic...
...Serb victory left some routed defenders and Western diplomats wondering aloud whether the Croats had yielded Bosanski Brod by prior agreement. Bosnia's Croats want western Herzegovina to the south just as badly as Bosnia's Serbs need the corridor...