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...negotiators are expected to spend at least half their time defining the nature and powers of a government that will preserve Bosnia as a single country--but will be composed of two distinct pieces, a Serbian "Republika Srpska" and the already existing Muslim-Croat federation. These entities are also to be given latitude to forge links with Serbia and Croatia proper...
...rich territory was seized by rebel Serbs in 1991; negotiations for its return are under way outside the Dayton conference. Clinton, according to State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, personally remonstrated with Tudjman about giving up the idea of using force. With good reason: it could pit the Croatian and Serbian armies against each other in the bloodiest war yet to tear the former Yugoslavia...
...newly-released Dutch report about Bosnian Serb massacres directly implicates General Ratko Mladic in the killings, "it definitely complicates the peace process. The New York Times report on Sunday was the first time that we saw solid evidence that Mladic was there, when the killings were taking place. And Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic may have to work something out for him in the peace plan. Will he allow Mladic to be put on trial? That could make things in Dayton more difficult." The other great dilemna, says Barnes, who just returned from Bosnia, is that "nobody has behaved honorably...
Just a week before international talks begin in Dayton, Ohio, to map out a single Bosnian state, the Bosnian Serb assembly voted itself an escape clause. The demand, which requires approval of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, would allow Serb leaders to hold a referendum on the new nation after a year. TIME's Bruce Van Voorst says that Milosevic is likely to reject both demands, and that the vote may simply be part of the Serb negotiating strategy: "It's not clear how much clout Milosevic has with the Bosnian Serbs. But it could be that Milosevic asked for this...
...been reached. The Bosnian Serbs have lost a great deal of ground since the summer as the Croat-Muslim allies have attacked them; they used to control almost 70% of Bosnia but now hold about 50%. Last week, however, the Bosnian Serbs were suddenly counterattacking with some success. "The Serbian offensive this week was a major factor in making the cease-fire possible," Holbrooke said in an interview with TIME. As he spoke in his hotel room in Rome, he kept one eye on CNN and was repeatedly interrupted by calls from Washington. "It became clear to the parties concerned...