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...ancestral lands. The Dayton accord is in essence a temporary cease-fire. It can be made permanent, provided the international community firmly declares that the partition line between the Bosnian Serb Republic and the Muslim-Croat Federation will be treated as an international border in case of armed incursions. YUGO KOVACH Twickenham, England...
...ACCORD IN BOSNIA... Bosnia, Croatia and Yugo slavia--the latter acting for the Bosnian Serbs--reached an agreement that maintains Bosnia's territorial integrity but creates a separate Bosnian Serb state within its borders. The talks, held in Geneva, were "an important milestone in the search for peace," said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke. Further negotiations on the deal, which gives the aggressor Serbs a full 49% of Bosnia, are to resume this week...
Until recently, mobile radio was to wireless communications what the Yugo was to transportation. With a motley clientele ranging from truckers using CBs to police armed with walkie-talkies to taxi drivers dispatched by radio, it was viewed as an unglamorous business and a technological backwater...
...Yugo-Slaves of the State Department...
Washington -- At the State Department, the unhappy souls in the Eastern European Bureau who are assigned to work on Bosnia are nicknamed "Yugo- slaves." So far, three have quit in the past year out of frustration with U.S. policies. The department's embarrassed high command recently held a meeting to head off any more defections. The solution is to at least reduce the physical discomfort involved in standing by at Foggy Bottom while genocide is committed in the Balkans: the Yugo-slaves will get better lighting and more space...