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Even so, Bosnia is a dangerous assignment. Atop the worry list for everyone, from private in the field to general in the Pentagon, is land mines. Overall, experts think the former Yugoslavia has been sown with anywhere from 2 million to 6 million mines. The American sector is known to contain three big minefields plus heaven knows how many mines planted individually and in small clusters. Tore Skedsmo, a U.N. mine expert, says all sides in the Bosnian war--Serbs, Croats and Muslims--"were laying mines like mad" right up until Nov. 21, when the basic peace agreement was initialed...
...estimated 2 million people driven out of their homes will either return to them or receive compensation. The murderers and rapists who turned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a slaughterhouse are to be arrested and extradited to the Hague for trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Finally, the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs' Republika Srpska, though remaining largely autonomous, are to join in forming a new, federated Bosnia. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has said that such successful multiethnic nations as Switzerland and Belgium "are frequently created this way, indeed, in a sense...
...United States will probably be able to maintain peace in the former Yugoslavia, although the treaty may deteriorate after U.S. forces leave in a year, a panel of Harvard experts said in a discussion at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last night...
Throughout the war, the Bosnian Muslims have suffered from a terrible deficiency in weaponry when compared with their Serb antagonists. In 1991 an arms embargo was imposed on all of the former Yugoslavia. That worked to the Muslims' disadvantage, since the Bosnian Serbs were equipped with the help of Belgrade. For years a debate raged over the question of lifting the embargo, arming the Muslims and letting them fight with the Serbs on a "level playing field...
...even after the Dayton agreement, the Administration believes that peace cannot be sustained unless the Muslim and Serb arsenals are balanced so that neither side is tempted to attack. "We're committed to achieve a stable military balance within Bosnia and among the states of the former Yugoslavia," U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Congress, "so that peace will endure." The question is, How do you achieve such a balance in the face of Bosnian Serb resistance...