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Lord David Owen on Working for Peace in Yugoslavia.

Former British diplomat Lord David Owen has written a new memoir about his efforts to broker a peace plan in the Former Yugoslavia. It is called Balkan Odyssey published by Harcourt Brace. Owen along with Cyrus Vance drafted the Vance-Owen peace plan that was considered but never adopted by the warring sides.

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Other segments from the episode on February 1, 1996

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 1, 1996: Interview with Lord David Owen; Review of Mo Boma's and the Rothenberg-Boone-Velez Trio's albums "Myths of the Near Future" and "On the Cliffs of the…

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