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Negotiators in Vienna worked against the clock Thursday to overcome Bosnian Serb objections and meet a midnight (5 p.m. CDT) deadline for agreement on reducing tanks, big guns and combat aircraft across the former Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serb insistence on more recognition for their self-declared state was the major stumbling block to meeting the deadline set by the U.S.-brokered peace accords, diplomatic sources said. If Croatia, the Muslim-Croat federation in Bosnia, the Bosnian Serbs and the new Yugoslavia — Serbia and Montenegro — fail to reach agreement, it would be a fresh blow to the accords.
