CBS Evening News - 1995-11-01 (no intro)
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[0:02] American peacekeeping troops will go in
[0:05] only when there's a peace to keep.
[0:07] Correspondent David Martin covered
[0:09] opening day of the talks.
[0:11] President Slobodan Milosevic
[0:14] They are united only in their contempt
[0:16] for each other and their unbroken record
[0:18] of failing to honor previous agreements.
[0:20] It took Secretary of State Christopher's
[0:22] urging just to get the presidents of
[0:24] Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia to shake
[0:26] hands. A stiff beginning to what is
[0:29] billed as the last best chance for
[0:31] peace.
[0:32] If we fail, the war will resume. Death
[0:35] and starvation would once again spread
[0:37] across the Balkans.
[0:39] Outside the conference room, there was
[0:41] no mistaking the bad blood. We know
[0:43] we're going to be sitting across the
[0:44] table from some monsters, but if that's
[0:46] what it takes to take to make peace,
[0:48] we'll do it. Chief US negotiator Richard
[0:50] Holbrooke carried a draft agreement full
[0:52] of details about everything from
[0:54] elections to the return of refugees.
[0:57] The agreement must somehow square the
[0:59] circle among the irreconcilable goals of
[1:01] the three factions. The Bosnian Muslims
[1:04] want a state of their own while the
[1:05] Serbs and Croats want to carve up Bosnia
[1:08] between themselves. It's going to be
[1:10] tough going. All three presidents have
[1:13] come in with very tough lines. Nothing
[1:15] will be harder to reconcile than the
[1:17] conflicting demands over territory. The
[1:20] Serbs want a wider corridor through
[1:22] Muslim territory to the land they hold
[1:24] in the west. The Muslims want an open
[1:26] road to the enclave of Gorazde. A road
[1:29] that runs right through Serb territory.
[1:31] A