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...most hopeful sign of progress so far, says Graff, is an agreement between Milosevic and Croatian president Franjo Tudjman to resolve their territorial differences in Eastern Slavonia, and to return refugees. "It's certainly good that they addressed that, since only a few days ago Tudjman said he would take the city of Vukovar, in the disputed area, by force." Despite such progress, however, Secretary of State Warren Christopher has said that "vast differences [remain] to be bridged." Christopher has insisted on dealing with human rights questions, including the massacres of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs. He has also made...
...development also further roils Congressional waters, says Michaels. Repeating President Clinton's bottom line today, Christopher told the Balkan leaders that "the United States will not send troops where there is no peace to keep." Michaels reports: "Without a Tudjman presence in the peace, we simply won't know what to do with our 20,000 American soldiers over there. The danger will not be what's in front of them, but what's behind them. You can be sure that Congress will not like...
...this vote, so he could go to the negotiating session and say his hands are tied. Look for a lot of similar grandstanding in the next few days leading up to this meeting." Expect a number of cease-fire violations, Van Voorst says, and, from Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, threats to retake the Serb-held Eastern Slavonia region of Croatia...
...equal houses for each president -- where, as State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns put it, "they don't have to bump into each every morning over orange juice. They're all presidents and they don't like each other. If you put Milosevic in a building that's nicer than Tudjman's, there are going to be problems at the very beginning of the talks...
...most of their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. They agreed to open the Bosnian capital's main roads and airport to unrestricted U.N. traffic. Milosevic kept one copy of the document, and Holbrooke took two copies with him to Zagreb to show to U.N. officials and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and then to Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic...