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...army overran the Serb-held region of Krajina in early August, he shuttled feverishly from one Balkan capital to another. He was pulled up short on Aug. 19 when three aides, including Robert Frasure, who prepared the way for Holbrooke's diplomacy, were killed in a road accident near Sarajevo, but that tragedy only made Holbrooke more determined. When the Bosnian Serbs lobbed a shell into a Sarajevo market on Aug. 28, they triggered a massive NATO bombardment, and in the ensuing weeks, Holbrooke relentlessly bullied his interlocutors toward the bargaining table. Finally, they sat down to talk peace...
...will not be the most dangerous assignment in Bosnia. That will probably fall to some 10,000 French troops in the Sarajevo sector. The peace agreement signed at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Dec. 14 virtually guarantees upheavals in the Bosnian capital. The pact consigns several Serb-populated suburbs to control by the Bosnian government. Rather than live under their hated enemies, Serbs are threatening to leave their homes in those suburbs and in the corridor to Gorazde in eastern Bosnia. Around Gorazde, some Serbs were stripping their homes of everything transportable--in at least one case literally including...
...into any real trouble keeping the peace." In other developments, Tony Blankley, press secretary to Newt Gingrich, is going to be considerably busier at home now that his wife, Linda Davis, an Army reserve captain, has been called to active duty as part of the Bosnia peacekeeping force. In Sarajevo, American military officials report that the Bosnian Serb military is beginning to dismantle its anti-aircraft radar installations, one of the main sources of worry to military planners. For details and an explanation of the major points of the accord, visit TIME World Wide's special page devoted...
...hatreds hindering reconciliation come sharply into focus in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, from which Serb forces shelled the Bosnian capital for almost four years. It is one of a handful of suburbs that will revert to Bosnian-government control, and several thousand Ilidza Serbs shouted defiance at a rally after the Dayton signing. Jovan Bugarin was one who talked of armed resistance: "Everybody here has guns. And we will send our children out on the streets. The NATO soldiers won't kill children. Or we will drag NATO soldiers through the streets like in Somalia...
This may be posturing, but it seems unlikely the Muslims who were driven out or fled to Sarajevo can ever peacefully return to Ilidza. Jasna Hadzimehmedovic, a Muslim fashion designer, left early in the war with her mother, but her father stayed behind and was arrested and tortured before he managed to escape. "I will never forget what he looked like when he joined us in Sarajevo," says Hadzimehmedovic. "He had cigarette burns all over his face and hands and this utterly forlorn and empty look in his eyes." As in Ilidza, so in the rest of Bosnia: the expectation...