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...Bosnian Serbs Defy...
...announced it will work to end the U.N. arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims unless the Bosnian Serbs accept a Western-sponsored peace plan by Oct. 15. However, the Serbs said they would defy the ultimatum, and U.S. allies, including Russia, Britain and France, oppose lifting the embargo...
...Bosnian Serbs have stepped up attacks on U.N. peacekeepers a day after they were bombed for firing on the blue-helmeted troops. The Bosnian Serbs may be gluttons for punishment: Brigadier General Andre Soubirou, U.N. commander of Sarajevo, warned that any new attacks on U.N. personnel "will be met with the appropriate and proportional military force." The U.N.'s big stick in the region: NATO, which supplied the British and American firepower against the Serbs...
...stationing of international civilian monitors along its border with Bosnia, raising the possibility that the U.N. may ease some of its less important sanctions against Serbia. The monitors' mission would be to help ensure that Serbia is keeping its word on the military embargo it has imposed against its Bosnian Serb allies as a result of their refusal to sign on to the latest peace plan...
Earlier in the week, Pope John Paul II canceled a planned one-day visit to Sarajevo, hours after Bosnian Serb artillery rounds pounded the besieged Bosnian capital. Citing concerns for the safety of the tens of thousands expected to gather to hear him celebrate Mass, the Pontiff said he hoped to visit Sarajevo "as soon as circumstances permit...