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- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: Ulterior Motives
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 18
- Ulterior Motives
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Bosnia's Serbs board the peace train, with travel plans of their
- own
- </p>
- <p> Croats living in Bosnia and Herzegovina had accepted it
- willingly. So had Muslims, though with reservations. What was
- needed for the nine-point plan to offer even a slim chance of
- peace to a country wracked by war was approval by Bosnian Serbs.
- That happened Wednesday at the ski resort of Pale, 10 miles
- east of the besieged capital of Sarajevo, where a parliament
- representing Bosnia's Serbs approved the plan by a comfortable
- margin. Under the plan, drafted in Geneva earlier this month,
- the country would be divided into 10 provinces largely drawn up
- on ethnic lines. Bosnia would continue to exist as a whole, with
- representatives from the three ethnic groups forming a weak and
- awkward federal government.
- </p>
- <p> But it wasn't peace alone that won the Serbs' support.
- They are convinced the plan can be reconciled with their own
- self-determination. For some parts of Bosnia, that might mean
- virtual union with Serbia. Since the Croats have similar designs
- for the three provinces designated for their control, all of
- which conveniently abut Croatia itself, Muslims, Bosnia's
- largest ethnic group, justifiably fear a squeeze. Talks resumed
- in Geneva on Saturday, but the fighting is sure to outpace the
- talking.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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