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...voice cracking with emotion and exhaustion, Christopher declared that he had "reached a day many thought would never come." Joined by the presidents of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia at a long, red-draped table at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Christopher said that the warring leaders "have agreed that four years of destruction is enough." Addressing the dignitaries gathered for the initialing of the peace accord, Christopher paid special tribute to the families of the three American diplomats killed last August outside of Sarajevo when the U.S. began its determined effort to bring peace to the Balkans. Relatives...
MAYBE IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT the hard slog to 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...
Negotiators in Dayton appear close to a possible peace accord for the warring Balkan nations. Defense Secretary William Perry and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake flew to the talks at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Friday while Secretary of State Warren Christopher cut short his trip to the economic summit in Tokyo in order to get back to Dayton that evening. "It's make-or-break at this point," says TIME's Douglas Waller. "They've basically agreed on the major issues and are now quibbling on the minor ones. They are very close, and the only thing missing...
...that hardly amounts to a declaration that peace is about to break out in Bosnia. Indeed, far from it. But if nothing else, the modest gesture attested to a spirit of grudging but determined compromise that seemed to pervade the first week of talks at Wright-Patterson. Perhaps that spirit stemmed from the Balkan leaders' recognition that this was probably their best and last foreseeable chance to craft peace. Or maybe it was owing to the tremendous diplomatic and military prestige America has staked on the conference's outcome. Whatever the reason, despite efforts to ratchet down expectations, a case...
Meeting at the heavily guarded Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio, the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia made limited progress on plans for ending the 42-month-old war in Bosnia. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the U.S. expects Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic to be ousted from power shortly; the two have been indicted by an international tribunal as war criminals...