Word: bosnian
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...leader Bob Dole as the Senate voted 69-29 to end the U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia. The bipartisan clamor grew despitea NATO agreementjust hours earlier to seek pre-emptive air strikes on rebel Serbs in the region. "There's only one thing that's going to protect the Bosnian people againstthe Serb expansion," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who waved published reports of continued Serb aggression. "And that is if they're allowed to defend themselves." More significant, Senate Republicans have secured the two-thirds needed to override a promised presidential veto if an identical measure passes...
...timer, exploded at 5:30 p.m. as the train pulled into the Saint-Michel station along the Seine River near Notre Dame cathedral.No group has claimed responsibility for the incidentbut authorities have several theories, reports TIME's William Rademaekers. "The French have many enemies," he explains. Algerian militants, Bosnian Serbs and extremist antinuclear groups -- all have motives. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (AIG) has a longstanding threat of retaliation after the French stormed an airplane hijacked by four of its members in December, 1994. All four were slain in the raid. Then again, Bosnian Serbs could be sending the French...
...prevent an escalation ofthe fighting in the Balkans. Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole, who at Clinton's request delayed action last week to await the results of the NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built-in military advantage for rebel Bosnian Serb forces. "We have an obligation to the Bosnian people and to our principles to allow a U.N. member state, the victim of aggression, to defend itself," he said. Clinton, clearly frustrated, fired off a letter to Senate Republicans warning of a potential U.S. quagmire: "Unilateral lift means unilateral responsibility...
...Bosnian Serb troopstoday marched into Zepa, taking undisputed control of their second U.N. "safe area" in as many weeks. U.N. sources tell TIME's Massimo Calabresi, in Sarajevo, that the mountain enclave is now completely free of Muslim forces: "One witness saw (Serbian Gen.) Ratko Mladic walking around the town with impunity," he says. The fates of thousands of civilians remain uncertain: the Bosnian government, fearing a reprise of reported rapes and murder after the fall of nearby Srebrenica last week, are negotiating for the release of women, children and elderly people. (Some reports said hundreds of Zepa's residents...
...Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal today indicted General Mladic, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and 21 other Serb officials for genocide and crimes against humanity. Despite the indictments, the tribunal is unlikely to put the suspects on trial, since Serbs in Serbia and Bosnia refuse to hand over the suspects. TIME's Marguerite Michaels says the proceedings will mean little until the military conflict is over -- and that Muslim names are sure to be on the list...