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Finally, if nothing else scuttles the talks, there is the status of Sarajevo--considered by Holbrooke to be "the Jerusalem [the most intractable problem] of the Bosnian situation." Muslims want an undivided city to serve as the capital of both Bosnia and the Muslim-Croat federation. Serbs want to divide it into ethnic sections, possibly separated by Berlin-style walls...
...Nonetheless, the approach paid off in a lightning series of agreements: Aug. 30, Milosevic announced he had the Bosnian Serbs' accord to negotiate for them; Sept. 8, broad settlement was reached on constitutional principles for a new Bosnia; Sept. 14, Bosnian Serbs agreed to withdraw heavy weapons from around Sarajevo and allow U.N. access; Oct. 5, a cease-fire agreement that seemed finally to have taken hold; and now the proximity talks...
With a meeting in Moscow postponed by Yeltsin's illness, the leaders of Bosnia's warring parties prepared for the U.S.-sponsored talks set for this week in Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake...
...brief talk, Clinton recalled a meeting with the Pope during the pontiff's recent American tour. The Pope reminded him, said Clinton, that "'the century began with a war in Sarajevo. Mr. President, you can't let the century end with war in Sarajevo...
...mediator Richard Holbrooke received assurance from the Croatian army that it would not seek to recapture the territory in eastern Croatia seized by Serbs, preserving the fragile accord between Bosnia's warring parties. By last Saturday, the fighting had ceased throughout the country, at least for the moment. In Sarajevo streetcar service resumed, and lights blazed in shop windows. But news arrived at week's end that the Serbs may have waged a new campaign of ethnic cleansing in northern Bosnia during the past month, raising fears that 2,000 Muslim men have been massacred...