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...three opposing factions in Bosnia met to discuss a resolution to the 19- month-old war. A possible breakthrough came when Bosnia's Muslim-led government briefly considered a plan to partition Sarajevo (where the Serbs' continuing siege killed seven more people last week) in exchange for Serb land concessions in eastern Bosnia. The Serbs, however, were unwilling to give up territory...
...winter's arrival threatened besieged Bosnian Muslims, Serb fighters temporarily blocked United Nations convoys attempting to deliver aid, then allowed them to proceed. The blockade broke an agreement made a week earlier in Geneva by all three factions fighting in Bosnia -- Croats, Serbs and Bosnians -- to open the country's roads...
...Bulgaria, a hapless lot recruited through local newspaper ads, scandalized the Cambodian provinces with their drinking and womanizing, but the U.N. could not discipline them. A U.N. task force has been created to investigate alleged black marketeering by peacekeepers, as well as charges that blue helmets regularly visited a Serb-run brothel outside Sarajevo whose "prostitutes" were in fact Muslim and Croat prisoners...
...Serb President Slobodan Milosevic, facing a confidence vote in parliament, ! dissolved the legislature and announced elections to be held...
...Administration is anything but trigger-happy. Why, then, is Clinton marching resolutely toward the deployment of U.S. soldiers to help NATO police Bosnia? The President promised the forces once the warring parties all agree on a settlement. The one now about to be signed will dismember the country into Serb, Croat and Muslim zones and allow the Serb and Croat regions to secede in two years. Senior U.S. officials say enforcement should not be too bloody because all three sides will gain from peace. But reluctant units must be disarmed, thousands of refugees relocated and safe passage corridors patrolled...