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Gilda steered her love child into the teaching profession, but the pull of the '60s was too strong to keep Anita in the schoolroom for long. She spent a year in Paris clipping newspapers for the International Herald Tribune, another year in Geneva working for the United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz...
...certainty it would arrive, since earlier U.N. attempts to reach the town had been turned back by Serbian militiamen and mines on the snowy mountain roads. Officials said they were negotiating with the Serbs for permission to enter the area. Meanwhile, in a warm and comfortable hotel in Geneva, Bosnia's government tentatively agreed with Serb and Croat forces last Tuesday to establish a decentralized federation of 10 provinces. The complex plan would allow the Serbs to retain most of the Bosnian territory they have seized. (See related story on page...
WITH A BROAD SMILE, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic told would-be peacemakers in Geneva last week that he had persuaded the leader of Bosnia's Serbs to accept their plan for partitioning war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was, he said, a "very important step toward peace." The mediators, U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance and European Community representative Lord Owen, indicated that they believed him. Both gave Milosevic credit for pressing the Bosnian Serb boss, Radovan Karadzic, to accept the plan...
Whatever his motivations, Milosevic had little reason to reject the Vance- Owen plan. Talking about peace has repeatedly allowed the Serbs valuable time to consolidate their conquests. So after Karadzic said no at the international negotiations in Geneva last week, Milosevic had a long, private talk with him and persuaded...
...Israel is truly committed to peace with the Palestinians, it must first return the deportees. Otherwise, it would be ridiculous for the negotiations to continue, as they are organized around the framework of U.N. resolutions. Israel's violation of U.N. resolutions and Geneva Convention articles regarding the deportees suggests similar attitudes towards other U.N. resolutions and robs the negotiations of any legitimacy...