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...American troops that are to follow over the next few weeks. Meanwhile the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to shut down its ill-starred 31/2-year peacekeeping missions in Croatia and Bosnia by Jan. 31. Ninety percent of the 22,000 U.N. troops now stationed in the former Yugoslavia will simply take off their Blue Helmets and switch over to the NATO force...
While covering the war in the former Yugoslavia, Rohde interviewed survivors who told him that the Bosnian Serbs had massacred 3,000 men from a "safe area" that they had invaded. He entered Bosnian Serb territory alone to find the mass graves described by the escapees...
...dais at Dayton, since by ending the war he also brought an end to the U.N.-imposed sanctions that were crushing Serbia's economy. Though he is regarded as the man who provoked the war, with his nationalist speeches and calls for a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia, he was also the key to last week's peace agreement. U.S. diplomats knew his past but credited him nevertheless with pragmatism and a willingness to compromise. As the boss of Serbia, he could make decisions and cut deals on the spot...
...other officials to a meeting near Belgrade. There, after a full day of tough talking, Karadzic signed on to the Dayton agreement. Experts in Belgrade said the threat hanging over Karadzic was that if he refused, Milosevic could hand him over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague. The tribunal has indicted the Bosnian Serb leader, and his military commander General Ratko Mladic, for genocide and other crimes against humanity. The Dayton agreement pledges all the governments to cooperate with the tribunal but stops short of requiring them to hand over indictees...
...know Milosevic started this," says Dejan Popovic, 22, a student in Belgrade, "and his guilt may be greater than any other's. But now I have to say thank you." Last week the U.N. Security Council said it too by suspending the main economic sanctions against the remnant of Yugoslavia--Serbia and Montenegro...