Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina initialed the agreement at about 4 p.m.

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Members of the ruling party in Croatia rushed through an emergency measure to declare President Franjo Tudjman, who is seriously ill in hospital, temporarily incapacitated.

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One was the Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman: once they had stopped fighting one another (and reinforcing each other's nationalist fury), the Serb and Croat leaders colluded to carve up Bosnia.

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