Croatian Police Driven From Town

NATO-led peacekeeping troops expelled Croatian police from Martin Brod, a disputed border town occupied since the Bosnian war, returning it to Bosnian control. The operation was requested by the West’s top peace envoy to Bosnia, Spanish diplomat Carlos Westendorp, and was completed without incident. The territory is now under the jurisdiction of the Muslim-Croat Federation, which make1931476993up half of postwar Bosnia. In Zagreb, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman called an urgent meeting of the country’s security council, which warned that such unilateral actions could have “unforeseeable harmful consequences.”