1.   Dayton offered Milosevic the carrot of a Serb entity.

2.   The Muslim and Croat federation, along with the Serb entity, will handle all other issues, including defense, separately.

3.   A Serb entity controls the other half.

4.   After the elections, the government will also include three ministers from the Serb entity.

5.   Bosnian government forces will relinquish the town of Mrkonjic Grad and a surrounding mountainous region to the Serb entity.

6.   But, he said, the creation of a Serb entity, called Republika Srpska, within Bosnia was an important victory.

7.   Croatia, which lost most of its markets in former Yugoslavia due to the wars, is interested in economic cooperation with the Serb entity.

8.   Defense will be run by a three-member presidency consisting of a Croat, a Muslim and a representative of the Serb entity.

9.   Created as a counterweight to the Serb entity in the new Bosnia, the federation would join two former enemies.

10.   Each half has a separate government, and Poplasen was elected last month to lead the Serb entity.