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...Council. Worried by Moscow's embrace of the Serbs, "there is real fear they will be ostracized by the world community," said a well-placed foreign observer. As a more positive incentive, "we are offering Croatia the world if they will reverse their policy," said a Western diplomat in Zagreb: money for economic reconstruction and refugee resettlement, loans from the World Bank and associate membership in the European Union. Tudjman, haggard and solemn, appeared on television last week to announce that he backed a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
Croats and Muslims fighting elsewhere in Bosnia agreed to halt hostilities. Negotiating under U.N. auspices in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, representatives of the warring factions agreed to place heavy weapons along front lines under U.N. control, as in Sarajevo, by noon on March 7. Meanwhile, in a major policy shift, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman said he would accept the idea of a Croat-Muslim state within Bosnia...
...like Saudi Arabia and the gulf states that have already shelled out money to Bosnian Muslim businessmen, who then procure the weapons. The smuggling routes also suggest how the newly sanctioned equipment would wend its way to Muslim fighters. Arms are shipped or flown to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, then transferred into Bosnia by lighter aircraft and trucks. But all equipment must pass through Croatia, which has extracted a sizable portion of the weapons that cross its lands. This Croatian usury is unlikely to diminish...
...between two provinces under the moribund Vance-Owen peace plan. Croats subjected Muslims to ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and cold-blooded murder, just as the Serbs to the north and east; there were reports of Muslim atrocities as well. However, late Saturday the two sides signed an agreement in Zagreb...
...itself the Serbian Liberation Front. Another claimed to represent Croatian militants. Still another called in the name of Bosnian Muslims. The possibility of a Balkan connection was made more tantalizing by the fact that a bomb was defused on Friday near the U.S. embassy in the Croatian capital of Zagreb...