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Serb, Croat and Muslim Bosnian leaders agreed to a cease-fire, despite the failures of the three that have preceded it during the past 15 months. At peace talks in Geneva, the Presidents of adjoining Serbia and Croatia suggested splitting Bosnia into three regions, each ethnically homogeneous. The idea was rejected by Bosnian President and Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic. Lord Owen, the British mediator and co-author of an earlier, much more complicated gerrymandering peace plan, said the new idea might not be the fairest or the best but that "the Muslim government would be well advised to look very...
...Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and points east. Allegedly lured as dancers by a self-described theatrical agent, they were then forced "to be nice to customers or else." The agent is now awaiting trial. Even war does not halt the traffic. In Kac, a cluster of rundown farmhouses in northern Serbia, dark-haired Valenka gyrates half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs for one-on-one at $62 an hour. The 24-year-old emigrated from Donetsk, in Ukraine, where her meat-packer parents earned $2 a week and she could not support her baby daughter. Now married...
Irregular Serb forces captured and "ethnically cleansed" the center of Brcko of its mainly Muslim population last year. Now they are trying to push south to widen their land link to Serbia. The hamlets stand in the way. Their defenders are local Muslim youths, sons of farmers and shopkeepers, of families who have known one another and worked together all their lives. At first, the fighters were no more than a self-declared militia; today they are a veteran unit of the Bosnian army...
...specter of a Greater Serbia emanating from Belgrade now seems challenged by Croatian designs on Herzegovina. And as these shadows benight Bosnia, the threat of wider conflict looms. Last week one Belgrade official blustered, "The Croats will move against the ((Bosnian)) Serbs, Serbia will have to protect them, and we'll have global war in the Balkans again...
...Holocaust. But then when it's time to make a real commitment of blood and treasure, it turns out we're ready to spend all of 2 cents on it. So this week the President talks about protecting Macedonia and he supports a U.N. border patrol to monitor Serbia's promise to cut off supplies to their Bosnian Serb brothers, which we already know is bogus, since fuel trucks have been passing the checkpoints without trouble. Next week after a few more editorials slam us for diddling around, we'll probably hear about the possibility of some other stunt...