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That, Western officials fear, would jeopardize the safety of U.N. forces in neighboring Bosnia, reignite the fighting there and set off a general conflagration that could bring Serbia directly into the war. The consequences of the U.N. withdrawal "could trigger the most dangerous situation Europe has seen since 1945," says Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State who is leading the effort to keep the U.N. forces in place...
...NATO soldiers, Washington has agreed only that a "separate Croatia-only'' force would be made up of units "from countries mutually agreed between Croatia and the Security Council." The new mission would also control 25 to 30 main crossing points along Croatia's international border with Bosnia and Serbia, as Tudjman wants...
...isolated villages. All the U.N. and NATO troops will then drive -- or walk -- out. Only the 1,200 Bangladeshis stationed in Bihac will probably be evacuated by air to warships 50 miles away in the Adriatic. Some of the U.N. troops in eastern Bosnia might depart through Serbia, if Belgrade approves. Most will have to head west, under heavily armed NATO escort, for Adriatic ports...
...evidently -- but for the record, not explicitly -- a further sop to the aggressors, if only they would cease further killing. That prospective inducement looked very much like a prize that the U.S., particularly since Clinton became President, has sought expressly to deny the "ethnic cleansers": formation of a Greater Serbia between the rump Yugoslav state and the Serbs in breakaway Bosnia and Croatia. Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary, and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe were to visit Belgrade this week to consult on the initiative with Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's nationalistic President...
...region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready to seize Bihac. Meanwhile, four U.S. Navy ships, with some 4,000 Marines and sailors aboard, began heading for the Adriatic...