At the beginning of the road stood an exasperated-looking angel carrying an olive branch. Kris Janowski, U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo, said leaders on all sides speak highly of the Dayton accord when talking to the United States and other countries in the NATO peace force. But they have little room for conciliation when it comes to carrying out the plan's edicts. But what is happening is more important than talking. And what's happening is not very encouraging.
Lip service is in great abundance here.
The accord The agreement, made up of 11 articles dealing with everything from human rights to internal borders to armies, was initialed by the presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia on Nov. 21, after three weeks of intense pressure from U.S. negotiators. They got a deal. U.S. and NATO troops began mobilizing the week that the accord was signed. President Clinton promised that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Bosnia by December 1996. But while the peace signing made headlines across the world, each side in Bosnia was grumbling about what it had to give up.