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...then, some of the doubters had been brought into line. Britain reluctantly acquiesced on the condition that military action be severely limited. Clinton persuaded Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien to go along despite worries about the safety of 2,000 Canadian peacekeepers. Even Greece, the most pro-Serb of the NATO nations, decided not to vote for the ultimatum, but cast no veto either...
...Serbs have been alternating bluster with hints of cooperation to leave open -- probably up to the expiration of the ultimatum -- whether they will provoke air strikes or not. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic makes the absurd claim that the Muslims faked the whole market carnage, using mannequins, professional actors to portray the wounded and old corpses provided by obliging Croat forces, who would have had to smuggle them into Sarajevo through Serb lines. Jovan Zametica, spokesman for the self-described Bosnian Serb government, remarks, "If NATO aircraft attack, we'll take them out." Drunken Serb soldiers on a hillside south...
...another hill, Serb troops were uncharacteristically subdued as they awaited the next turn in the war. Their cries of defiance lacked conviction amid a newfound fatalism. "If we pull our artillery out," said Goran Bogic, "the Muslims will overrun us in 10 minutes." In Sarajevo, Serb forces not only held to a cease-fire but also started placing some heavy weapons under U.N. control -- though U.N. troops were not even certain the meager haul of cannon had ever been emplaced around Sarajevo...
...tell the world that we are far from happy and that we are not optimists at all? On the contrary, we're desperate because of the obvious fact that, once again, nothing will be done. Again, the cunning Serb President Slobodan Milosevic, along with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, will just take advantage of the situation for the umpteenth time to prepare new fortifications. When such powerful TV networks determine that we are pleased and optimistic in Sarajevo, then we simply have to become optimists...
...journalist advised him to be extra careful, since Mr. Worner, believe it or not, had come to the "historic" meeting against doctor's orders. And we were even more moved when he answered that same journalist's question about the fate of Karadzic's weapons in the so-called Serb capital of Pale -- weapons that would not come under the control of the U.N. Not even the journalist understood the answer, nor did we happy campers at Asha's cafe...