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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...
...several meetings last week build on Serbia's acceptance, given last July, of the peace plan put forth by the so-called Contact Group, composed of the U.S., Britain, France, Germany and Russia; that proposal envisages the future Bosnia as a union of the Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska and the Bosnian-Croat federation, on the basis of a 49%-51% allocation of territory. Milosevic would not only recognize the union but also make certain that the peace plan is accepted by the so far intransigent Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Serbia would in addition promise to seal more effectively...
...expulsion of U.N. peacekeepers from Croatia. Milosevic obliged. But what he cared most about was his plan, which Richardson took back to Washington. In it, Milosevic said Yugoslavia would recognize, among other things, "that Bosnia-Herzegovina should be a union of the Bosnian Croat federation and the Republika Srpska," both equal and both with the right to confederate with Croatia and Serbia, respectively. The Bosnian Muslims, without an adjacent motherland to support them, would be left in the lurch...
...raid German garrisons, occupy villages, cut rail lines to vital Black Sea ports. Last week they struck hard. Enraged by the execution of 50 hostages as "intellectual instigators" of the Zagreb telephone ex change explosion that killed five Germans (TIME, Sept. 22), revolutionary Chetniks seized the town of Srpska Mitrovitza, disarmed and kidnapped its German garrison. Twelve thousand Chetniks attacked another German-held town. The Germans had to send dive-bombers to disperse them...