Word: zagreb
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Territory. The thorniest issue of all--and an area where remarkable progress has been made. The first break came when Tudjman and Milosevic agreed that control over Eastern Slavonia, the sliver of Croatia ruled by rebel Serbs since 1991, would revert to Zagreb's control in a year or, under certain conditions, two. That was followed by a compromise on the cornerstone issue: Sarajevo. It will remain, at least in name, an "undivided city'' (as the Muslims demand), but it will be partitioned into nine self-governing ethnic zones. Each zone can have its own official language, its own education...
...highly motivated and well-equipped force that, as Michael Williams of London's International Institute for Strategic Studies describes it, "is as underrated now as the Bosnian Serb army was overrated then." Warning that the Croats will soon dominate the Muslims, a source close to Milosevic calls the Zagreb-Sarajevo coalition "a marriage made in hell." That's the kind of language that could get a new myth started...
...witness, put their signatures to the agreement to withdraw most of their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. They agreed to open the Bosnian capital's main roads and airport to unrestricted U.N. traffic. Milosevic kept one copy of the document, and Holbrooke took two copies with him to Zagreb to show to U.N. officials and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and then to Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic...
Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke will meet with Croat President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic in Zagreb on Tuesday. He is expected to discuss reining in the combined Muslim-Croat forces, which have made significant territorial gains in northwest and central Bosnia during the past week. U.N. officials now say Muslims and Croats control more than half of the country and are still pressing forward. Although Holbrooke's peace plan calls for a cease-fire agreement by September 25, Stiglmayer reports that Bosnia's Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey told reporters today that the fighting would continue, since...
...thinking to believe he would do so on these terms. If the Clinton plan falters on eastern Slavonia, it leaves the biggest source of friction in the Balkans unremedied. "Even a fairly small event there could very rapidly escalate beyond anybody's imagination," says a Western military analyst in Zagreb...