Word: splits
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...Serbs, Croats and Muslims have all accepted the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its present borders, they have also approved dividing it in some undefined way into "two entities," one a Bosnian Serb republic and the other the Muslim-Croat federation. According to the statement of principles, the split will be based on the long-standing proposal put forward by the team of international negotiators called the Contact Group: 49% of Bosnia to go to the Serbs and 51% to the existing federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats...
...attacks go on, the more the pressure will mount on the West to up the ante and compel the Serbs to move. But increasing the ferocity of the air war could threaten allied unity and shake the new cooperation between NATO and the U.N., and might also precipitate a split with Russia, which is a member of the Contact Group. In Moscow last week, a fit-looking President Boris Yeltsin demanded, "Why are only the Serbs punished?" He warned NATO to halt the air strikes or see Europe again divided into "two camps." American officials assumed most of Yeltsin...
...territory the Muslim-Croats seized in the past three days brought the division of land the two sides now control even closer to the 51-49 split agreed to in the negotiations," reports national security correspondent Douglas Waller. Before the NATO offensive, Waller notes, Serbs held approximately 70 percent of Bosnian territory. Pentagon officials tell Waller that Croat-Muslim forces now hold a significantly greater chunk of Bosnia. "Thursday, the CIA and Pentagon had revised their percentages for what the sides held to 55 percent for the Bosnian Serbs and 45 percent for the Muslim-Croats. Today, Pentagon officials...
Neither Frank nor Murphy would specify the exact nature of the agreement between the Coop and Barnes and Noble, Murphy said the Coop and the store manager will split profits on a percentage basis, but he would not say what that split will...
...TAYLOR Public shame of aborted perfume launch is happily overshadowed by latest marital split...