Word: muslim
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...even after the Dayton agreement, the Administration believes that peace cannot be sustained unless the Muslim and Serb arsenals are balanced so that neither side is tempted to attack. "We're committed to achieve a stable military balance within Bosnia and among the states of the former Yugoslavia," U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Congress, "so that peace will endure." The question is, How do you achieve such a balance in the face of Bosnian Serb resistance...
...offers far more hope to the peoples of Bosnia than the continuation of a war whose only certainty would be more death. The accord preserves a unified Bosnia within internationally recognized borders, even while it vests substantial political authority in the two republics that divide the country, the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serb Republic. Sarajevo will remain a united capital under Federation control, international monitors will supervise free elections and the protection of human rights and no one charged with war crimes will be allowed to hold political office...
While the Serbs may be the most likely resistors to the peace, there still remains the substantial prospect of rifts in the Muslim-Croat alliance. The two sides fought each other in the early years of the war, and it was only their mutual antipathy toward the Serbs that brought them together. Progress on 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...
...peacekeepers, France has a major stake in the largest troop deployment in NATO history. TIME's Bruce Crumley notes that the French now have 7,500 troops in Sarajevo and represent the most experienced contingent of European military units in a divided Serb-Muslim city that could be a flashpoint during the peacekeeping mission...
...refuse to have my soldiers condemned to watch an exodus of Serbs who will burn their houses before leaving," a French newspaper quoted General Jean-Rene Bachelet as having said over the weekend. Bachelet reportedly added that the peace pact, which puts the divided city under control of the Muslim-Croat federation, would force the Serbs of Sarajevo to choose between "the suitcase or the coffin." The French Defense Minister, who ordered Bachelet home, said the general's opinions were not those of the French government. TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris: "Despite the fact that the French have...