Word: nato
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...However NATO sees its role, its bombs seemed not to be hurting Mladic enough to force him to back away from Sarajevo. The longer the attacks go on, the more the pressure will mount on the West to up the ante and compel the Serbs to move. But increasing the ferocity of the air war could threaten allied unity and shake the new cooperation between NATO and the U.N., and might also precipitate a split with Russia, which is a member of the Contact Group. In Moscow last week, a fit-looking President Boris Yeltsin demanded, "Why are only...
Privately, Clinton Administration officials concede they were disappointed that the Geneva meeting did not produce a cease-fire agreement along with the set of principles. That would have halted the gunfire on the ground and also enabled NATO to suspend the air strikes. As it is, the allies will run out of so-called Option 2 targets--the relatively bloodless ammunition dumps and radar stations--as early as next week...
...NATO KEEPS BOMBING...
Unfortunately, the agreement made no mention of a cease-fire, and as the Bosnian Serbs failed to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo, nato escalated its military campaign, doubling its target list and extending the scope of the air war across Bosnia. As poor weather frustrated bombing efforts and Serb resistance appeared to be holding firm, a nato official admitted, "It might take a longer campaign to inflict significant damage...This may be a question of lasting attrition, grinding them down rather than overwhelming them with a series of spectacular strikes in a couple of days...
General Dragomir Milosevic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb forces around Sarajevo, said he would remove the rest of his army's heavy weapons before a NATO deadline Wednesday. Serbs have withdrawn about half of their weapons so far. From Sarajevo, Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that U.N. officials say they are pleased with the Serb compliance. Serbs have rounded up many of their weapons in preparation for transportation outside the 12.5 mile exclusion zone around the city. Late Sunday night, NATO gave them another 72 hours to pull back, but warned that air strikes would resume if all the guns weren...