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...increased job security, expanded medical coverage and an extension of the new contract to a fourth year. The two-month walkout had already delayed the delivery of some 30 planes, costing Boeing hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of the more than 32,000 machinists covered by the new pact are expected to be back on the job Friday...
BOSNIAN PEACE PACT INITIALED...
...Paris today after having condemned the Dayton peace agreement. "I 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...
...peace in the Balkans that the first important agreement to come out of the negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio was between the two parties who are already supposed to be allies. Last Friday Secretary of State Warren Christopher presided over the signing of a pact to strengthen the Bosnian-Croat Federation that will govern slightly more than half of Bosnia and Herzegovina when an overall peace is achieved. The Bosnian Muslims and Croats spent most of 1993 and the early part of 1994 killing each other, but in March 1994, Washington brokered an alliance between them...
...Czech Republic, mobs have burned Gypsies' homes and beaten their occupants, sometimes to death. Police and legal authorities have generally condoned these atrocities. In desperation, thousands of East European Gypsies--500,000 in 1991 alone--have applied for asylum in the West. Rather than accept repatriation after a 1992 pact between Germany and Romania, Romanian Gypsies in German relocation camps destroyed their identity cards. They were deported anyway...