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...Bill Clinton backed him up, saying the Serbs should have no doubt that "NATO will resume the air strikes if they fail to keep their commitments." But Karadzic vowed, "We will withdraw our weaponry," and said it would be hauled outside the U.N.-declared 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. The pledge was confirmed by General Dragomir Milosevic, the commander of rebel Serb forces around the capital...
...where the weapons were taken. The airport was reopened after having been shut down for five months, and the first flight in carried French Defense Minister Charles Millon with a shipment of flour. Several more aid flights arrived Saturday. At the same time, two U.N. relief convoys rumbled into Sarajevo with minimal harassment at Bosnian Serb checkpoints...
...planes and concluded that the Bosnian Serbs control only about 55% of the country, while the Muslims and Croats have 45%. As the Bosnian government offensive continues, the actual holdings may come very close to what has been agreed upon. The major outstanding territorial issues could be reduced to Sarajevo, eastern Slovenia and Gorazde...
...disengagement around Sarajevo goes according to plan, the Serb and Bosnian government generals are scheduled to meet this week with U.N. military commanders to discuss extending the cease-fire to all of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It might take some doing to persuade the Bosnians to agree to that because of their latest successes on the battlefield. But Bosnian government officials last week began a series of television appearances to urge a move away from fighting to peacemaking...
...pushed for a well-armed Rapid Reaction Force and urged NATO to show its muscle. "I am delighted," said Chirac, "that the Americans have become strongly involved for the past few weeks." The British were solidly behind air strikes until, as Defense Minister Michael Portillo said, "the threat to Sarajevo is lifted." Privately, London had been asking Washington to broker a local cease-fire around the Bosnian capital. Now that it is in place, Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind hopes for, if not steady progress, then at least "three steps forward and one step back...