Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time the last refugees left Krajina on Friday, Zagreb's victory had completely rearranged the balance of strengths and fears in the Balkans. The Serbs have now suffered their first terrible defeat, and Milosevic's failure to come to the aid of the Krajina has caused bitterness among both his own people and the vengeful refugees flowing into Serbia. The Bosnian Muslims are both better off and worse off than they were before: the Croats, with whom they are allied, have dealt their enemy a serious blow; the Croats have also liberated Bihac, a Bosnian town that the Serbs besieged...
...been rebuilding and training with new weapons. In May they took back Western Slavonia, and it has been assumed that a major Croat offensive would begin this summer. The action last week seemed to be the overture. By week's end, young men had disappeared from the streets of Zagreb, called up into the army, and Croat forces had begun to gather near Karlovac, just north of Krajina. A U.N. spokesman says massive Croat attacks on Krajina, the Serb-held portion of Croatia, "may be initiated soon, possibly within days...
...first day of peace talks concluded, TIME's Edward Barnes reports from Zagreb that the rebel Republic of Serb Krajina has agreed to all the demands of the Croatian government. Butthe Croatian government, flush from a string of recent battlefield victories, declined the offer, saying they want the Serbs to accept full government authority. Barnes reports that thousands of Croat troops are massed near the Krajina border. "The Croatian military has been itching totake back the land seized by the Serbs three years ago. But the Croatian government will at least postpone their long-awaited assault until they can find...
...mandated only 7,600. In fact, not even that many were ever assigned to the safe areas. So the resolution approved a month later did not mention their "defense" but called on unprofor "to deter attacks" on them. "They were indefensible from the start," says a U.N. official in Zagreb...
American military personnel are already in Zagreb, setting up the communications network necessary for the highly choreographed departure, while U.S. Army troops in Germany and Italy have been training for it for weeks. An allied force of up to 83,000 would spend as many as 22 weeks on the mission. However, only about half of those troops -- and some 10,000 of the 25,000 Americans expected to be a part of the plan -- would actually set foot on Bosnian soil. Most of the rest would be logistical units in Croatia and Italy and afloat in the Adriatic. Much...