Word: owen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effect on May 9. Suddenly, there was hope that the intervention no one really wants would not be necessary. But would the truce hold? Many such agreements have been made and broken during the past year. Only a week ago, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had signed the Vance- Owen peace plan. Just as Secretary of State Warren Christopher switched gears in Europe, from lobbying allies on a plan to bomb the Serbs to discussing the formation of a U.N. peacekeeping force, the Bosnian Serb parliament scuttled Vance-Owen, 51-2. All the disagreements that a peace plan might have...
...Doboj falls, the corridor will fall too. This is the most critical part of the line," says the local Serb commander. "We will never give it up." Under the Vance-Owen peace plan, Doboj (pronounced dough boy) would be handed back to the Muslims, an event that the Serbs insist will never happen. "This is our last stand," says a Serb who came here a year ago as a refugee from a Muslim town in southern Bosnia. "To take away the corridor is to kill us as a people. We would rather die fighting here...
These men are no freak sect, out of touch with the Serb mainstream. They are the mainstream. The deputies of the Bosnian Serbs' self-appointed parliament proved that last week: they showed the same intransigence as the men in the trenches when they effectively rejected the Vance-Owen plan. No matter that the bosses from Belgrade coaxed, wheedled, pleaded and finally threatened; the deputies rudely turned their backs on compromise. Their bellicose stance was a rebuke not only to the meddling international community but also to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who dared urge them...
...planes. They trouble him and often, as they roar overhead, he will stop in mid-conversation and begin a tirade against the forces that are arrayed against his men. But he is defiant about the possibility of foreign intervention. "I draw the maps around here," he says, "not Mr. Owen...
...ills and who, as he begins his second 100 days in office, is already in political trouble. Clinton told a television interviewer last week that he was distressed when he heard the Bosnian Serbs had refused to go along with the peace plan negotiated by Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen. "I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary," Clinton said, "because what I got elected to do was to let America look at our own problems and our own challenges and deal with those things...