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Having lost confidence in their leadership, the Serbs are fleeing Sarajevo at the rate of about 100 families a day. In an overt challenge to Karadzic, who wants to control their movements, they are loading cars and trucks and trekking toward Serbian territory. Some are even digging up family members' coffins and taking them along for reburial. Columns of vehicles laden with household goods rumbled across the runway of Sarajevo airport into Serbian areas of Bosnia last week...
Bringing bags of mail, 200 cases of Coca-Cola and 5,000 Hershey bars, President Clinton paid a morale-boosting visit to nearly 1,000 American soldiers at the airfield in Tuzla, Bosnia. The President also met with Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian leaders...
...Serbs remain disturbed by the entire business. Last month several U.S. lawmakers got a similar reaction from Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Over espresso and pastries, Milosevic told them that Americans "are looking for trouble," says Republican Representative Jim Ramstad of Minnesota. Milosevic, widely blamed for igniting the Balkan wars, has some unexpected allies. Retired top U.S. military officers who until recently were responsible for the Balkans say the plan may embolden the Bosnians to seize land now held by the Bosnian Serbs. Boyd suggests it would be better to leave well enough alone, saying both sides...
...Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic finally got the carrot that brought him to the negotiating table in Dayton when President Bill Clinton officially suspended economic and military sanctions against Yugoslavia on Thursday, ending a three-year boycott of the country. Lifting of sanctions that had crippled his county had been a crucial issue for Milosevic, who in effect promised to deliver the Bosnian Serbs in return for a lifting of sanctions. Key to his decision, Clinton said, were assurances that the U.S. would be able to monitor Serb compliance with the Dayton accords: "Before agreeing to sanctions suspension," Clinton said...
Just two days before the treaty signing, Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic released two French pilots who were shot down during a nato bombing raid Aug. 30. Captain Frederic Chiffot and Lieut. Jose Souvignet were freed after France put intense pressure on Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic...