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...separate the combatants and get the new country up and running, NATO plans to send in an Implementation Force, called I-FOR, of some 60,000 troops, 20,000 of them American. They will separate the federation's forces from the rebel Serb army, supervise their return to barracks and patrol demilitarized zones on both sides of the cease-fire lines. The I-FOR commanders will be the judges of what action they must take in any situation, and while the military annex to the agreement does not say so, the force will function much like an army of occupation...
...world's peacekeepers will remain on duty for only a year, American officials say. But the long-term threat to Bosnia's future will go beyond skirmishes with rebel Serbs and perhaps take firm shape only when the year is up. Even if elections are carried out as prescribed, the central government may never become a functioning administration that can earn citizens' loyalty. Under the agreement, both entities in the new state are permitted to establish parallel links with neighboring countries. That means the Serbs with Serbia and the Croats with Croatia. The biggest worry for Bosniacs is that those...
...further demonstration of the rebel power to use terrorism against Russians, Shamil Basayev, a Chechen military leader, directed a television-news crew in Moscow to a radioactive parcel buried in one of the city's public parks. He told journalists in a previously filmed interview, "People these days say we are always bluffing...but remember that we are completely prepared to commit acts of terrorism that will be tangible for Russia.'' Basayev has to be taken seriously: last June he led a Chechen raid on the Russian town of Budyonnovsk that left a score of local policemen dead...
...Russian plan for elections Dec. 17 for a new Chechen leader. For the Chechens, the election plan is merely an attempt to give a gloss of democratic legitimacy to Moscow's rule. "No election will be held until the last Russian invader has left," declares a spokesman for rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev, who conducts his guerrilla campaign from a mountain hideout...
Territory. The thorniest issue of all--and an area where remarkable progress has been made. The first break came when Tudjman and Milosevic agreed that control over Eastern Slavonia, the sliver of Croatia ruled by rebel Serbs since 1991, would revert to Zagreb's control in a year or, under certain conditions, two. That was followed by a compromise on the cornerstone issue: Sarajevo. It will remain, at least in name, an "undivided city'' (as the Muslims demand), but it will be partitioned into nine self-governing ethnic zones. Each zone can have its own official language, its own education...