NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that a decision regarding control of the northern Bosnian town of Brcko (BURCH-koh) is due in the morning. Whether the town remains under Bosnian Serb control or reverts to the Muslim Croat Federation is an extremely sticky question. Each side has threatened to go to war again if the decision is not in its favor. The town sits astride a narrow corridor of land that is strategically important for both entities. The Bosnian Serbs want the town to maintain the link between their east and west entities. The Muslim-Croat Federation wants the town to open up the north-south trade with the rest of Europe.
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