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Some students said yesterday that Rabin's abilities as a leader and a diplomat transcended the political debate over the peace settlement...
...recently as early July, it would have seemed sheer fantasy to think that in four months, all sides would be meeting with a real cease-fire in effect and at least the broad outlines of a settlement agreed on. But it was precisely because all concerned were forced then to peer into a terrifying abyss that they began pulling back from the brink...
...staff jokes that the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire just to get him to shut up for a while. Nonetheless, the approach paid off in a lightning series of agreements: Aug. 30, Milosevic announced he had the Bosnian Serbs' accord to negotiate for them; Sept. 8, broad settlement was reached on constitutional principles for a new Bosnia; Sept. 14, Bosnian Serbs agreed to withdraw heavy weapons from around Sarajevo and allow U.N. access; Oct. 5, a cease-fire agreement that seemed finally to have taken hold; and now the proximity talks...
...volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...
...sides, the President has committed the U.S. to training and equipping Bosnian forces. The Administration recognizes that Bosnia's security will depend in the long run on its own strengths, and not international guarantees. However, it will take more than the will to peace to secure a settlement. In this climate of distrust, agreements will have great difficulty finding their way off paper, unless we can find a way to assure all sides that agreements will be upheld...