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Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic finally got the carrot that brought him to the negotiating table in Dayton when President Bill Clinton officially suspended economic and military sanctions against Yugoslavia on Thursday, ending a three-year boycott of the country. Lifting of sanctions that had crippled his county had been a crucial issue for Milosevic, who in effect promised to deliver the Bosnian Serbs in return for a lifting of sanctions. Key to his decision, Clinton said, were assurances that the U.S. would be able to monitor Serb compliance with the Dayton accords: "Before agreeing to sanctions suspension," Clinton said...
...roads were carting furniture rather than clothes and essentials. There were some reports of houses being burned as they left, but so far no accounts of violence. The fear, says Alexandra Niksic, is being fanned by Bosnian Serb leaders who remain beligerently opposed to the terms of the Dayton accord which would place some 70,000 Bosnian Serb Sarajevans under the authority of the Muslim dominated federation. "Though there were very few reactions to the meeting with Admiral Smith yesterday," says Niksic, "the leader of the Bosnian Serb parliament, Momcilo Krajisnik, warned on Wednesday that there would be trouble unless...
...that tragedy only made Holbrooke more determined. When the Bosnian Serbs lobbed a shell into a Sarajevo market on Aug. 28, they triggered a massive NATO bombardment, and in the ensuing weeks, Holbrooke relentlessly bullied his interlocutors toward the bargaining table. Finally, they sat down to talk peace in Dayton, Ohio, last month. The reason everyone quit fighting, it was joked, was that this was "the only way to get Holbrooke to go home...
...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 near Dayton, Ohio...
...come sharply into focus in the Sarajevo suburb of Ilidza, from which Serb forces shelled the Bosnian capital for almost four years. It is one of a handful of suburbs that will revert to Bosnian-government control, and several thousand Ilidza Serbs shouted defiance at a rally after the Dayton signing. Jovan Bugarin was one who talked of armed resistance: "Everybody here has guns. And we will send our children out on the streets. The NATO soldiers won't kill children. Or we will drag NATO soldiers through the streets like in Somalia...