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Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in negotiating the Dayton accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian government to hire MPRI or a competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science Applications International). Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will not begin to flow into Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the Bosnians act swiftly to organize the effort) is expected to begin within a few weeks, perhaps in Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently spoke favorably of MPRI in testimony to Congress and says...
Biden, who backs the Bosnians, has quietly won $100 million in Pentagon weaponry and supplies for Sarajevo in a 1996 spending bill. Some U.S. officials say it will take several times that amount to right the military balance. Nations likely to be asked for weapons and cash include Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan. Those countries, expecting nearly $3 billion in U.S. aid this year, may have a hard time saying...
...singer BONO spent New Year's Eve in Sarajevo. The self-proclaimed "first tourist" to the city danced one night away with Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey, then joined locals for an impromptu show the next. "I can't understand why more of our colleagues have not come," said Bono. Maybe the war had something to do with...
Bowing to pressure from U.S., European and NATO authorities, Bosnian Serbs released 16 Bosnian civilians taken captive in Serb-held Sarajevo suburbs. The abductions had been a serious challenge to the Dayton peace accord, which requires that all of Sarajevo be open to civilian travel...
...SARAJEVO: An expected POW exchange was put on hold when Bosnia's Muslim government balked at the last minute, delaying the planned release of more than 500 Serb prisoners of war. The move cast new doubts on the future of the Dayton peace agreement, which calls for all sides to release their prisoners by Friday. Bosnian government officals say that Serbs have not lived up to their end of the bargain by offering only to release 200 Muslim prisoners. At issue for the government are the some 24,000 Muslims unaccounted for in 3 1/2 years of Balkan war. Many...