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...Owen plan. It is a measure of their desperation that some Bihac dwellers still believe President Clinton's decision last week to join the peace process might yet rescue them from that plan. Irfan Ljubijankic, head of the local leadership committee, denounces Vance-Owen as a potential "win for Serbia," and clings to the hope that Clinton's new policy "is more radical than it appeared." He is convinced that the U.N.-ordered arms embargo will eventually be lifted, so that Bosnian fighters can be re-equipped. "Fighting is not our will," he says. "It is an imperative to survive...
...envoy, veteran diplomat and current Ambassador to NATO Reginald Bartholomew, to take part in the talks. His first stop was Moscow, to persuade Russia to join the peacemaking effort. Meanwhile, the U.S. will step up humanitarian-aid shipments to Bosnia and try to tighten economic sanctions on Serbia...
Although these penalties are relatively mild, Israeli officials are enraged at the very prospect of facing U.N. sanctions. "To put us in the same category as Iraq, Serbia and Libya -- it's unacceptable," says Rabin's spokesman, Gad Ben-Ari. "We've not swallowed another country or massacred thousands of people or harbored terrorists who blew up a packed airplane." To . block approval, Jerusalem has embarked on an intensive lobbying effort. Rabin took the unusual step of calling all ambassadors accredited to Israel to a late-night meeting at his office in Tel Aviv. There, they were served cold sodas...
...that it is the only real chance for peace. The nine-year-old girls on sleds now being murdered by half-witted gunmen will not be saved by relief convoys that bring them food so they can later be shot. They will not be saved by dreams of rolling Serbia out of Bosnia. They will only be saved by peace. And if we've learned anything from Cyprus and India and Palestine, it is that the best way to bring peace is to separate the combatants and let them live apart...
That, at least, is an argument. One would still counter that: 1) the connection between the fate of Bosnia and a larger Balkan war is speculative; 2) interventionists have not shown how they propose to drive Serbia out of Bosnia; and 3) the better way to prevent a general Balkan war is a partition of Bosnia coupled with a "red line" drawn at Kosovo and Macedonia, a strong warning to Serbia that aggression there, which would indeed engage vital American interests, would elicit a massive, Baghdad-like military response against Belgrade...