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...Mostar's Muslims Emerge...
...military ultimatum worked in Sarajevo, why not try it in Tuzla or Mostar or the other Muslim enclaves under siege in Bosnia? As Sarajevans took a tentative step toward peace last week, freed from the terrors of Serbian guns that have rained more than 1.5 million shells on the city in two years, NATO leaders, Russian diplomats and Bill Clinton congratulated themselves on a small but important victory. Buoyed by the success, the President was prodded to apply the same tactics to other parts of the embattled country...
...week Washington was trumpeting a diplomatic push between Croats and the Bosnian government, who have also been fighting. After U.N. commanders negotiated a cease-fire in Mostar, which included a promise to withdraw the artillery relentlessly bombarding the Muslim quarters of the ancient city for more than nine months, U.S. envoys hurried to put together a settlement uniting the formerly allied Croats and Muslims into a Bosnian confederation. At the same time, it looked as if peace efforts were turning into a pale version of a cold war superpower contest, with the assertive entry of Russia as protector...
Postscript: a day later and 50 miles away, a mortar shell arced out of the surrounded Muslim enclave in Mostar and crashed into a playground in the Croat section of the city. The explosion killed three boys and a girl, all between...
...Mostar's 16th century Old Bridge, one of the most exquisite examples of Ottoman architecture and a symbol of ethnic harmony in prewar Yugoslavia, was destroyed by Croatian gunners. Meanwhile, some of the deadliest shelling in weeks hit Sarajevo, killing at least 17 people, including several children at a school. The U.S. State Department warned that more than 4 million lives could be lost this winter because of the war, weather and disease...