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- <text id=93TT2491>
- <title>
- Feb. 15, 1993: No for Now on Bosnia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- WORLD
- No for Now on Bosnia
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The U.S. bridles at the Vance-Owen plan, but can it find an
- alternative?
- </p>
- <p> Saying no to an old boss is never easy. Still, U.S. Secretary
- of State Warren Christopher refused to endorse a Bosnian peace
- plan urged on him by two United Nations mediators: Cyrus Vance,
- his chief in the Carter State Department, and Britain's Lord
- Owen. Washington objects, saying the plan, which would divide
- Bosnia into 10 provinces largely along ethnic lines, would leave
- Serbs in control of areas that they have won by aggression and
- "ethnic cleansing." The U.S. also fears endless conflicts along
- province borders that might trap a U.N. peacekeeping force--one
- perhaps including American troops--in a cross-fire among Serbs,
- Muslims and Croats. Vance and Owen retort that their plan is the
- only one that might stop the war, and they may be right.
- Christopher avoided a flat no, pending an American policy
- review. Military intervention is opposed both by European
- allies and by the American Pentagon, and it seems doubtful that
- the U.S. can come up with any more acceptable diplomatic
- solution.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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