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Serb forces acceded to the NATO-U.N. ultimatum and pulled virtually all their troops and heavy weapons away from Gorazde. But observers fear they may be moving them northward to Brcko (pronounced Birch-ko), a town on the Croatian- Bosnian border partly held by the Serbs that the U.N. is now considering naming a seventh "safe area." At U.N. headquarters in New York City, the Security Council approved 6,550 additional peacekeepers for Bosnia, after the U.S. withdrew its earlier objections to the cost...
Claims of influence with Bosnian Serbs prove very, very hollow...
When minority leader Bob Dole asked the Senate to approve lifting of the U.N. embargo on weapons shipments to the Bosnian government, an idea Clinton has frequently endorsed, the White House pressured Dole into backing off because most of the allies are opposed. The President expressed interest in a Russian proposal for a summit conference on Bosnia, which could prompt a settlement -- but that settlement could be a new Munich...
...successes. The Administration long ranked policy on Russia as No. 1, but that is turning questionable: Boris Yeltsin's progress toward building a free-market democracy seems stymied, and Moscow is no longer a reliable U.S. partner in diplomacy -- witness its on-and-off support of the Bosnian Serbs. Less ambiguous are Clinton's victories in winning ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement to create a U.S.-Canada-Mexico common market, and the pledge by the 119 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to lower trade barriers worldwide. Those reflect a presidential focus on economic...
Terrified Muslim residents of the eastern Bosnian city of Gorazde, declared a "safe area" by the United Nations last May, huddled under nearly continuous attack by Bosnian Serb forces for the third straight week. At week's end NATO allies issued a strongly worded new ultimatum to Serb gunners, giving them until 2:01 a.m. local time Sunday to withdraw their forces 1.9 miles from the town center and allow U.N. peacekeepers into the besieged city. The threatened big stick: allied bombing on a far greater scale than before...