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Perhaps the most ominous development was the decision by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to send troops and heavy artillery to the U.N. buffer zone in eastern Slavonia, a strip of Croatia that was seized by local Serbs in 1991. An armed conflict there could bring in the powerful army of Serbia, yet Tudjman has vowed to take the territory back by force before the end of the month, when the U.N. mandate expires. The Serbs in eastern Slavonia profess to be unintimidated. "Let him come," says Slobodan Antonic, a commander of the main Serb military force there. "We have laid...
...called "an essential building block to peace," Croats and Muslims signed an agreement at talks in Dayton, Ohio, to strengthen their political and economic federation, which would control one part of Bosnia; the remaining territory would be Serb-run. But lest the meetings become too productive, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman renewed his threat to retake a strip of Serb-held territory in eastern Croatia if negotiations do not provide its return by Nov. 30. Christopher warned Croatian leaders not to use force...
With the Balkan peace talks at a critical stage, Croatian president Franjo Tudjman took on the international war crimes tribunal by promoting a man that the U.N. court had just indicted. Tihomir Blaskic, a commander of Bosnian Croat troops, was charged with "crimes against humanity," according to Tuesday's indictment, for taking part in an ethnic cleansing operation that "effectively destroyed or removed almost the entire Muslim civilian population in the Lasva Valley" in 1993. Tudjman's promotion of Blaskic complicates the peace process because the Clinton Administration has indicated its desire to ensure that war criminals are not given...
...BEGAN last Wednesday near Dayton, Ohio, the mood in the Hope Hotel at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was downright frosty. When U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher stood and urged the Balkan leaders to shake hands, they did so in the most perfunctory manner imaginable: Croatia's Franjo Tudjman would not look Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic in the eye; Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic refused to smile at Tudjman; Milosevic and Izetbegovic stared past each other. Even worse, after the press was dismissed, each man delivered a blunt statement accusing the others of human-rights abuses. But when the chilled...
...turn up the temperature in this hothouse environment. On Wednesday morning, even before delivering a pep talk to the three Presidents at the plenary session, Christopher visited the private quarters of each to chide them about actions their countries might take that could derail the talks. He warned Tudjman not to undercut Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation and told him point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic that his failure...