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...talking hopefully about finding an end to the 23-month war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The complementary pressures of Washington and Moscow appeared to be nudging their respective clients toward accommodation. A tide seemed to be turning as zeal for warfare ebbed and attention flowed toward crafting a negotiated settlement...
Last week every faction was talking to someone. In Sarajevo the Bosnian government and Serb rebels agreed to open some roads to civilian traffic in and out of the city. In Belgrade Serbs and Croats announced that they would begin negotiating a formal settlement of the war they fought in Croatia in 1991, which left almost a quarter of Croatia in Serbian hands...
Abdelrahman Qassemlou, 59, leader of the independence-minded Iranian Kurds, arrived in Vienna on July 11, 1989, to negotiate an autonomy agreement with emissaries of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. After 10 years of fighting, the government seemed eager to reach a settlement. For two days, Qassemlou, his deputy Abdullah Ghaderi-Azar, 37, and Fadhil Rasoul, 38, a Vienna-based Iraqi Kurd serving as a mediator, talked in a borrowed apartment with interior-ministry official Mohammed Jaafari Sahraroudi and Hadji Moustafavi, a.k.a. Ladjeverdi, an intelligence operative. A third Iranian, Amir Mansour Bozorgian, stood guard at the door...
...opponents or supporters of Israel, that the Israeli government is not truly interested in securing peace during the current talks. Certain observers of Israeli policy believe that the government in power is operating from a position of strength, and is therefore unwilling to make concessions even approaching a fair settlement...
...Jews of Hebron have been proving just how tough they are since 1968, when firebrand Rabbi Moshe Levinger and his American-born wife defied the Israeli government to lead a group of compatriots into the city and establish the first Jewish settlement in the newly occupied territories. Years later, when Levinger's car was stoned on a downtown street, he opened fire, killing an innocent Palestinian shopkeeper; he served only 10 weeks in jail for the crime...