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...included agreements to preserve safe passage for each side through territory controlled by the other in the delicate jigsaw puzzle forged in Dayton. Muslims and Croats, for example, are assured a safe corridor through Serbian territory from Sarajevo to the Muslim city of Goradze. Serbs won protection on the Posavina corridor, which connects a Serb area in western Bosnia with the main Serb territory in the east to a passage through what will now be Muslim-Croat territory. "It looks as if the crucial event was President Clinton's call to Croatian President Franjo Tudjman yesterday," says Graff. "That might...
Everyone has agreed on a roughly 49-51 split of Bosnia's land between the Serb entity and the federation. But fierce disputes rage about who gets which specific pieces of territory. The width of a strip of land called the Posavina Corridor, which connects Serbia with the Bosnian Serbs, is the most contentious of these quarrels...
Aleksandar ("Marko") Rankovic, Minister of the Interior, is of a different (and repulsive) type. Born in the Posavina 41 years ago of Serb peasant stock, he started life as a tailor. He became a Communist when still in his teens. He looks a perfect police chief-burly and iron-jawed, with eyes as cold and muddy as the Danube River in winter. In 1939 he was in Moscow, taking lessons in police administration from Lavrenty Beria. Rankovic is the most intensely hated man in Yugoslavia...