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Milosevic says his plan requires a partnership between the U.S. and Yugoslavia as overseers to bring the settlement about, a process he describes as "Americanizing the peace," which, given America's reluctance to engage in the region, seems equally unlikely. He first produced the draft of his proposal last March during secret (but White House-sanctioned) meetings with Democratic Congressman Bill Richardson at Karadjordjevo, a presidential hunting lodge in northern Serbia. Richardson had been invited by Milosevic to pass on to Washington an offer of cooperation, but the Congressman was tasked by the Administration to take the occasion to urge...
Touborg said she was unable to comment onwhether the negotiations could conclude before thecontract expires today, but said the Universitywas "hopeful that a settlement can be reached...
Britain and France hope the U.N. peacekeeping mission can hang on long enough to help produce a negotiated settlement, which some experts believe might finally be possible. The Serbs have held their 1,000-mile-long front lines for three years, and their field army of up to 80,000 is stretched thin. The Bosnian government's forces lack heavy weaponry but have grown to about 150,000 troops. "The Bosnian Serbs are overextended," U.S. General John Galvin, the former NATO commander, said in Washington last week, "and they are outnumbered." Still, they have artillery. Norman Cigar, a military analyst...
...widely advocated alternative, heavy air strikes plus the lifting of the arms embargo on Bosnia, almost certainly would not work either, except in the sense that it might enable the antagonists to fight until exhausted. Of course, some political-diplomatic settlement might still be patched together. But the only sure way to end the conflict is by overwhelming force, meaning up to 100,000 NATO troops prepared to stay for a long time, as advocated by Senator Richard Lugar and others. Is Bosnia worth it? A case can be made that it is, on moral grounds and as a deterrent...
...court of appeals reversed a lower court's rejection of Microsoft's antitrust settlement with the Justice Department. District Judge Stanley Sporkin perceived Microsoft as ruthless and rejected the settlement as insufficiently punitive; the circuit court disqualified him from further presiding over the case and recommended that the next judge on the case approve the agreement...