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NATO Jets Hit Bosnian Serbs...
American jets flying a NATO mission attacked Bosnian Serb targets near Sarajevo after a group of Bosnian Serbs broke into a U.N. compound and stole heavy weapons that were placed under U.N. control in February. The Bosnian Serbs' raid came one day after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic cut economic and political ties to punish the Bosnian Serbs for their third rejection of a Western-brokered peace settlement. Although he has been their primary sponsor in the 28-month war, Milosevic appears to be fearful that continuing to support the Bosnian Serbs would lead to tightened trade sanctions against Serbia, thus...
...Give the Bosnian Serbs at least this much: if audacity were the only requirement for winning a war, they would have routed their opponents long ago. But even the most brazen strategists can sometimes trump themselves. And the Serbs did so last week by launching a raid on a United Nations weapons center in an abandoned factory just west of Sarajevo. The Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the depot were taken completely by surprise, not realizing the predawn smash-and-grab had taken place until they spotted the Serbs rolling a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and an anti-aircraft...
...making plans to get its peacekeeping force out of Bosnia if U.N. member states vote to lift the arms embargo there, as is expected. War is almost certain to break out as soon as it's clear that the Bosnian Muslims will start getting weapons, says TIME's Central Europe bureau chief, James L. Graff. Any remaining U.N. soldiers are not likely to be spared the wrath of the Serbs, he adds. "It's a knee-jerk reaction to want to lift the arms embargo," says Graff. "It may mean justice for the Muslims, but it also means a nasty...
...Bosnian Serbs don't agree to a West-sponsored peace plan by October 15, President Clinton says he will ask the U.N. for permission to start shipping arms to their enemies -- the Muslims. Currently the U.N. has imposed an arms embargo against all warring factions in the former Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, the on-again, off-again humanitarian airlift to Sarajevo was suspended today after three U.N. planes were struck by bullets. It wasn't clear who was responsible...