Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke plans to meet here with Bosnian Muslim and Croat leaders during an annual conference on security.

Early this month, Assistant Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage visited Panama to press for the general's resignation.

This month the warring parties signed an accord negotiated by Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke that laid the basis for a peace agreement.

Nevertheless, Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke, the chief American negotiator, said, "We have avoided a crisis."

Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke said the most important element was an agreement to appoint an international arbitrator to decide disputes referred by either side.

The American negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke, said efforts were partly directed toward meeting immediate concerns.

In late 1994, Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke began searching for ways to circumvent the international arms embargo against Bosnia.

That injury "required many months of convalescence," Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke said in a letter seeking the waiver.

Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy suggested that Iranian attacks on American-flag vessels could mean war.

The truce, brokered by Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke, is to last 60 days.