Word: posavina
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...dismisses them one by one. That killing didn't happen, he says: "If anyone did such things, they would have been court-martialed immediately." The Gray Wolves didn't exist, and anyway I wasn't a paramilitary, he says: "No, no, I was in the regular army, Second Posavina Brigade." I wasn't in charge, he says: One of the other men indicted was the local police chief, and "there's no way I could have commanded him." It wasn't me, he says: "Anyone could use my name, some Serb envious of me." I wasn't there, he says...
...commander of the First Brigade of the First Armored Division is in trouble for remarks he made about the warring factions in Bosnia. Army Col. Gregory Fontenot, commander of U.S. Army troops patrolling the still contested Posavina Corridor in northern Bosnia, was quoted in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal as saying, "They don't think I trust them, and they're right. These are people who kill women and children and attack their neighbors. They're offended by me? Hell, I'm offended that I had to come here because of all their fighting." Though the Pentagon remained tightlipped about...
...effort to bring the Serbs back up to 49%, the Americans had tried to find some sparsely settled spots in Croat areas. That set off one of the worst tussles, over the so-called Posavina corridor, the narrow strip in the north, at the top of the map of Bosnia, that links Serb holdings in the northwest of the country with those in the east. Milosevic continued to seek a wider corridor. But Tudjman balked at handing over the parts held by Bosnian Croats as compensation for Serb losses elsewhere. This time Bill Clinton had to step in. He phoned...
Izetbegovic then made his final demand. He wanted Brcko, the Serb-controlled town that anchors the Posavina corridor, turned over to his federation. This looked like a deal breaker. It was almost as if the Presidents were afraid to conclude the deal. "At the end," says Holbrooke, "we faced not a question of substance but one of political will. Do you actually put pen to paper?" Christopher drafted language on his handy yellow pad that would submit the Brcko issue to international arbitration and sent copies to the three delegations...
...Serb--all of whom will exchange positions every year. Other major territorial obstacles have also been overcome. Milosevic has agreed to give up the safe haven of Gorazde, connected by a corridor to Sarajevo. In return, Bosnia will give up Srebrenica and Zepa, and permit a widening of the Posavina corridor, which links Serb-controlled Bosnian territories in the northwest and northeast with each other and with Serbia. These concessions have caused strong protests by Croats and Bosnians in Dayton and at home...