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...what a peace it is. Attacks by the Bosnian Serbs, funded and supplied by Serbia, will be rewarded--Serbian aggressors will win exclusively Serb provinces within Bosnia, which will soon become formal or informal extensions of the Serb state. Worse than the settlement itself though, is the message it will send to Milosevic...
Despite a flurry of diplomatic activity in Geneva, prospects for a peace settlement seemed as remote as ever. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, booed during a visit to Sarajevo, emerged empty-handed from talks ! with the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia. As thousands of Bosnian fighters massed on a mountain southwest of Sarajevo in apparent preparation for an offensive, Boutros-Ghali called for 10,000 U.N. troops to supplement the more than 7,000 who patrol Bosnia. An additional group of 33 U.N. military advisers headed for Macedonia...
...Brazilians would migrate to Curitiba, but why do people keep streaming into a Kinshasa or a Karachi, Pakistan? What is the irresistible lure of the megacity? To the outsider, a neatly swept native village in Africa, Asia or Latin America may look more inviting than a squalid urban squatter settlement. But until recently even the most wretched city slums have offered better access to paying jobs, more varied diets, better education and better health care than what was available in rural communities...
Other workers expressed concern over the loss of merit increases, and one, Ann Norton, criticized the media's coverage of the settlement. "The way it's been reported to the press makes it seem like we got a better deal than we did," Norton said...
Despite their varying reactions to the settlement, most workers indicated that they would support the new contract. And several said they were anxious to begin reaping its benefits...