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...year Burns introduced a wilderness-protection bill for his state that called for safeguarding 800,000 acres and easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of this acreage, a 100-mile-long strip of remote terrain in northwestern Montana, known as the Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land to state authority...
...AFTER ALL THIS TIME, ANYONE STILL needed a reminder of why the war in Bosnia must end, last week's events provided one. A truce had been declared and peace talks were approaching--yet the combatants clashed repeatedly in the northwestern part of the country as each side fought to win territory before negotiations begin. In the same region, the Serbs conducted some of their most barbaric exercises in "ethnic cleansing." Given this conflict's warped, through-the-looking-glass logic, it was perhaps only to be expected that auguries of peace would provoke the worst excesses...
...safe area," killing a Norwegian peacekeeper and prompting a NATO air strike against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women and children from towns in northwestern Bosnia and taking captive thousands of men who now face an uncertain fate. But after nearly three dozen failed cease-fires, the latest truce appeared to be holding at week's end. There was, however, a cruel new twist: makeshift natural-gas lines, flowing with the volatile fuel...
Bosnia's cease-fire now appears to be in effect everywhere except in the Sanski Most area of northwestern Bosnia. "U.N. officials say the town itself was quiet but fierce fighting could be heard to the east and north, indicating that the Muslim and Croat allies may be trying to capture Prijedor, about 20 miles to the north," reports Alexandra Stiglmayer from Sarajevo. "Prijedor is of major symbolic value to the Muslims because in 1992, Serbs brutally expelled the Muslim population from there, committing some of the worst massacres of the Bosnian war." The area is also of strategic value...
...paragraph "statement of principles" providing for a group national presidency, a parliament, a constitutional court and "free, democratic elections." But the critical issue for any Bosnian peace, the disposition of territory, was not addressed. Even as the diplomats talked, the Bosnian army continued its offensive to retake sections of northwestern Bosnia captured by the Serbs...