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...provocateur this time is Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman, who announced in January that the 12,000 United Nations peacekeepers patrolling the cease-fire line along the Serb-occupied Croatian region of Krajina must leave the country beginning March 31, when the U.N. mandate expires. The soldiers have managed to keep the peace in Croatia since being deployed there in the beginning of 1992, but Tudjman has concluded that they mainly serve to protect the Serbs' hold on Krajina. If the troops depart, there will be nothing to prevent the 105,000-man Croatian army and 40,000 Krajina Serbs...
...mandate so the peacekeepers can stay right where they are. Croatia objects on the ground that their presence merely legitimizes a Serbian occupation of Krajina, stealing away 27% of Croatian soil. "If we let the U.N. stay forever, we'll have another Cyprus, and that's unacceptable," says Tudjman's spokesman, Jozo Curic...
Under intense pressure from the U.S., Tudjman finally seems to be reconsidering his eviction notice. TIME has obtained a White House document outlining the tentative agreement Holbrooke has reached with the Croatian leader, which the American envoy hopes to nail down as soon as possible...
Setting up what an observer called a game of "high-stakes poker," Croatian President Franjo Tudjman decided not to extend the United Nations peacekeeping mandate in Croatia, which expires March 31. Diplomats fear that removing the buffer of 15,000 Blue Helmets could allow animosities between Croats and the Croatian Serbs or between Croatia and Serbian-ruled Yugoslavia to flare into renewed fighting...
...most part, the month-long cease-fire agreed to on June 15 by Bosnia's warring parties held. Among several flare-ups along the front: the area around Bihac, where Bosnian government forces fought a group of Muslim rebels who have declared an independent fiefdom. Meanwhile, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman visited Sarajevo to discuss a newly formed Bosnian federation of Muslims and Croats...