Ulterior Motives

Bosnia's Serbs board the peace train, with travel plans of their own

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...

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