Bosnian Croats and Serbs waved and cheered as the Americans made their way south.
The peace plan divides Bosnia into a Serb republic and a federation of Muslims and Croats.
In 1929, Yugoslavia became the official name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
He helped forge an uneasy federation between Bosnian Muslims and Croats, to offset the Serb onslaught.
As leader of Croatia's independence movement, he cannily pitched his appeal to Croats of left and right.
Last year the pair formed a shadow Bosnian cabinet with three Serbs, three Muslims and two Croats.
But few Serbs have returned, and Bosniaks now live on one side of town and Croats on the other.
It is the exact opposite of President Tudjman's pomposity and regal manner which many Croats have come to resent.
Only half the Croats live in a chunk of land adjacent to Croatia.
One series of notes would depict writers favoured by the Croats and Muslims.
And it has successfully prosecuted both Croats and Muslims, as well as Serbs, for crimes in the earlier, Bosnian war.
He would prefer Croats like Mr Raguz to join the federation government, but says they have asked for too much.
Croats are fiercely proud of their wine, a cherished product of the sunny, rocky Croatian islands on the aquamarine Adriatic sea.
Much to the irritation of Croatian music executives, the mobile phones of many young Croats hum with the latest Serbian tunes.
The leader of the Bosnian Croats says that his forces will advance into rebel territory until the Serbs agree to peace.
He says he has been refused three different loan requests, although many Croats in his region had no trouble getting money.
So if Mr Mesic wins, it is likely to be that Croats simply regard him as more likeable than his rivals.
Are Serbs and Croats, who share their religions with others, but not with each other, and whom no geneticist could tell apart?
In theory, Mr Karadzic's lot or Mrs Plavsic's might be able to build a coalition by teaming up with Croats or Muslims.
Most Serbs and Croats who wanted to create a Greater Serbia and a Greater Croatia now recognise that Bosnia is here to stay.
There, countries that do well decide they are no longer Balkan: witness, most obviously, the Slovenes, and, still only hopefully, the post-Tudjman Croats.
About 30, 000 Croatian Serbs are in the Serb part of Bosnia and 70, 000 Bosnian Croats are in Croatia, according to United Nations figures.
Progress has been made in resolving some outstanding issues between Croatia and Bosnia, but some problems Croats are at a loss to help with.
And within Bosnia itself, relations between Serbs on the one side and Bosniaks and Croats on the other, already chilly, may well deteriorate further.
It was the corruption surrounding Tudjman's friends that did much more to swing the elections than the Croats' sense of loneliness in the world.
They finally agreed that all notes would carry both Roman script (favoured by the Croats and Muslims) and Cyrillic script (favoured by the Serbs).
Virtually all Bosnian Croats, who account for perhaps 14% of the population, hold Croatian citizenship, as do many others who can claim a Croatian link.
If Bosnia's Croats, Muslims and Serbs see their wickedest foes put behind bars, they may find it that bit easier to start working together again.
Mr Mesic says that relations with Bosnia's ethnic Croats must change.
In the short run, Croats will see few changes on the day they join the EU. But the process of joining has already transformed the country.
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