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WHAT CROATIA'S PRESIDENT FRANJO TUDJMAN is trying to do is to free the Krajina region totally from the Serbian army of occupation [Croatia, March 20]. Let's not forget the U.S.'s own history, when colonists were compelled to deal with the British in exactly the same manner. To tag Tudjman a warlord is to imply that the "Father of Our Country," George Washington, was not a Founding Father but just another vain warlord...
Reversing his decision to boot 12,000 U.N. troops from his country on March 31, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman agreed to allow a much smaller force of some 5,000 troops under a new mandate that will include patrolling Croatia's borders with Serbia and Bosnia...
According to the document, classified secret, the U.S. and Croatia have reached "'understandings for a new international presence'' in Croatia. Tudjman will allow the U.N. contingent to stay at least until June 30, by which time it must be scaled back to 5,000, who can remain until Sept. 15. In return, Washington is prepared to give Tudjman a say in who makes up the new force and what it will be called. Because he publicly vowed to remove the old force, dubbed UNPROFOR, a different name will allow the Croatian leader to save face. Whereas Tudjman wanted the peacekeepers...
...settlement may be Tudjman's vanity. The 72-year-old Croat yearns to be recognized as a world statesman--not a mere regional warlord--and he has a chance to play that role this week in a visit to Washington. In public, the State Department is providing him with a place of honor during ceremonies marking the first anniversary of a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
...private, U.S. officials say, Holbrooke and others are warning him of the consequences if he goes ahead with the expulsion. "Tudjman was under the impression that he had a friend in the West, and that we would come in if things fell apart," says a State Department official. Holbrooke, the official says, "let him know that the West is not going to get involved if events lead to a Serbo-Croatian war. If it got really nasty, we would implement sanctions." But until a real settlement can be found, the abyss will always be there...