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...ebullient meeting at Hyde Park could be forgiven if they concluded that the relationship was based largely on personalities, but the State Department has another reading. The Presidents agreed that Russia would participate in some way in the force that implements a peace plan for Bosnia. Whatever Yeltsin's condition, spokesman Nicholas Burns says, this agreement is set. For the next few weeks that may be true. But the hard-liners have won powerful support. If Yeltsin falls, it is not at all clear that whoever succeeds him will so readily accommodate the Americans, either in Bosnia or beyond...
President Clinton took advantage of the global gathering to meet privately with Russian President Boris Yeltsin for four hours at F.D.R.'s Hudson River estate. The tete-a-tete was demonstrably friendly, with Yeltsin squeezing Clinton in a bear hug. With their urging, negotiators later agreed that about 2,000 Russian troops would play a noncombat supporting role in a multinational peacekeeping force in Bosnia. But nato insists that any Russian combat troops in Bosnia be placed under its control, a demand the Russians just as adamantly reject...
...YELTSIN HOSPITALIZED...
Upon his return to Moscow, Yeltsin complained of chest pains and was hospitalized with heart trouble for the second time in four months. His doctors found that the blood supply to Yeltsin's heart was ''unstable'' and ordered him to remain under close medical supervision until the end of November...
With a meeting in Moscow postponed by Yeltsin's illness, the leaders of Bosnia's warring parties prepared for the U.S.-sponsored talks set for this week in Dayton, Ohio. One hopeful sign: the first civilian convoy to reach Sarajevo since the Bosnian war began in 1992 traveled through Serb-held territory with a welcome cargo of flour and cement. A less hopeful sign: in Croatia, President Franjo Tudjman said that if the final slice of Croatian territory held by Bosnian Serbs is not relinquished through negotiation by the end of November, the Croatian army will move to retake...