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Foreign ministers of Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia have agreed to meet next week for peace talks in Geneva. Earlier, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke said in Belgrade that all sides in the Balkan conflict had agreed to a divide Bosnia in half, with 51 percent going to the Muslim government and 49 percent to the Serbs. "What they haven't agreed to is who gets the 51 and who gets the 49," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. "There are three or four contentious areas that could cause problems in negotations." One of these, Waller says, is the isolated...
Which creased face of age, which inconsolable howl from a child, could distinguish some nominal victor from vanquished? Scores of thousands of Croatian Serbs flowed to Serbia, Bosnian Croats to Croatia and Muslims from centuries-old homelands in Bosnia to the last strongholds of their community. As foreign observers adduced evidence of a terrible death that may have befallen 5,000 or more army-age Muslim men in Srebrenica, an eastern Bosnian town conquered by Serbs last month, the U.N. began to document deeds that were perhaps just as appalling, albeit much less extensive, against some Serbs uprooted by Croatian...
...victory had completely rearranged the balance of strengths and fears in the Balkans. The Serbs have now suffered their first terrible defeat, and Milosevic's failure to come to the aid of the Krajina has caused bitterness among both his own people and the vengeful refugees flowing into Serbia. The Bosnian Muslims are both better off and worse off than they were before: the Croats, with whom they are allied, have dealt their enemy a serious blow; the Croats have also liberated Bihac, a Bosnian town that the Serbs besieged for 1,201 days; at the same time, however...
...them, would be "peace enforcers" with liberal rules of engagement. They would be joined by 45,000 soldiers from other countries, and the entire team would be run by NATO, not the U.N. Under the plan, the Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs could form respective federations with Croatia and Serbia. The economic embargo against Serbia would be lifted in exchange for its recognition of Bosnia's qualified sovereignty. And finally, a mini-Marshall Plan would be set up to pump billions of dollars' worth of economic aid into the region...
...toughest issue confronting Tudjman and Milosovic--and the peace plan--is the fate of Eastern Slavonia, the fertile and oil-rich region of Croatia populated by rebel Serbs whom Milosevic controls. If Tudjman, flushed with success, tries to retake that, he will almost surely provoke Serbia's powerful army into a fight. Both Serbia and Croatia have moved forces near eastern Slavonia but have been cautious. According to a State Department analyst, the U.S. hope is that Milosevic will relinquish his control in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and a promise on the part of Croatia that it will...