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...countrymen felt much the same way. There were few joyous celebrations in Sarajevo, but quiet smiles and sighs of relief were everywhere. There were understandably mixed feelings. Sanel Isovic, 29, a lawyer, says she had feared from the beginning that the negotiations would fail and the war, and the brutal siege of Sarajevo, would resume. Now that a compromise agreement has been made, she says, "I am suddenly disappointed because this is not what we have been fighting and suffering for." But Hata Bandic, 27, probably speaks for the majority when she says, "I think of what we went through...
...lower-level Serb officials in Bosnia also go along with the peace plan. That may not be easy, since many of them are shouting defiance. He appeared on television Friday to tell his people, "We accept the peace." But on Saturday, thousands of Bosnian Serbs protested in and around Sarajevo, vowing to defend their turf...
...enabling force, an advance communications-and-logistics team of about 1,000 soldiers, around 200 of them American. NATO would then start sending in the main I-FOR the day after the peace is signed in Paris. NATO's southern command would set up a forward headquarters in Sarajevo, and six days later I-FOR would begin separating the Bosnian, Croat and Serb armies. I-FOR would not, however, be able to complete its move into the country until after the New Year...
...twisting by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The agreement, while preserving Bosnia as a single state, separates it into two entities: a Serb republic, controlling 49% of the land, and a federation of Muslims and Croats, controlling 51%. The federation will also administer most of the long-besieged capital, Sarajevo. In response to the accord, the U.N. Security Council voted to suspend trade sanctions, which have crippled the Serbian economy...
...conversation with Time Daily's Peter Meyer correspondent Alexandra Stiglmayer reports from Sarajevo that the people of the besieged city are still not ready to hope for permanent peace. Even though they look forward to the arrival of NATO troops, says Stiglmayer, they worry about what will happen after the soldiers leave. "The enmity between the Serbs and Muslims is deep," she says. The Serb demonstrations demanding autonomy in the city are a constant reminder of that fact. One piece of news which cheered the Bosnian Muslims of the city was the announcement by Senator Bob Dole that...