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- WORLD, Page 31World NotesYUGOSLAVIADogged Is the Peacemaker
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- Despite the collapse of 14 negotiated truces over the past
- six months, the peacemakers have not given up. U.N. special envoy
- and former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance last week put
- together the most detailed agreement yet and won approval from
- the warring Presidents, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo
- Tudjman of Croatia.
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- Vance's plan calls for the Serb-led Yugoslav federal army
- to pull out of the parts of Croatia it controls as a result of
- the fighting. A 10,000-strong contingent of U.N. troops would be
- deployed for at least six months in the contested areas. Serbs
- and Croats would then press ahead on a political solution.
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- First, of course, a lasting cease-fire must take effect.
- The two sides agreed to end hostilities on Friday. As so often
- before, they promised not to shoot first, but this time they
- also pledged not to retaliate even if they are fired upon. U.N.
- officials were hopeful that a real truce would take hold. But
- fighting broke out after the deadline and by some reports
- continued into the weekend.
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