Word: nato
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...deterrence lasted only as long as the Serbs allowed themselves to be deterred. Why they changed their minds and decided to move against the eastern enclaves is another matter the Western governments are trying to figure out. Many military officers, including some on the U.N. staff and at nato, believe the Serbs are acting to pre-empt the new 10,000-troop Rapid Reaction Force the French, British and Dutch decided to deploy after hundreds of their peacekeepers were taken hostage...
...rescue force won't move inland to Bosnia until the peacekeepers have assembled at a handful of major points. "We don't want to send 90 of our guys out to rescue two or three peacekeepers," a NATO planner says. The allies most probably would employ a "leapfrogging" withdrawal strategy, in which highly mobile nato units would hop from peak to peak, guarding the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers winding along roads in the valleys below. They will head west for Adriatic ports or east to Belgrade, assuming Serbia approves. While the allies want to bring tanks and other vehicles...
...Security Council this evening demanded that Serbs cease attacks near one such enclave, Bihac, but fell short of threateningU.N. retaliation. The Serb attacks, the largest in the area in six months, have skirted the "safe area" within Bihac, a strategy that allows them to seize territory without provoking NATO retaliation...
While the Western leaders argued,TIME's Edward Barnesreports, Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic -- the field commander who some diplomats say now controls the Serb campaign -- scoffed at the threat of airstrikes. "As for NATO's war planes, we are already accustomed to being bombed by them," he told a local newspaper. "No bombardment by NATO planes can do us any harm. The West should realize certain things: It cannot bomb theSerbswith impunity. Serbs cannot be forced to live in pens. They won't have others draw their maps for them that will divide what for centuries has been Serb land...
...meet the Bosnian demands with or without consent of the U.N., which has withheld approval of NATO airstrikes precisely because the Serbs have retaliated by taking U.N. hostages. At an Oval Office meeting today, White House advisers said they would ask a crucial, six-nation meeting Friday in London for unilateral permission tostep up NATO attackson the Serb positions and a new command structure that bypasses the U.N. The White House is also considering a European request to broaden the U.S. military commitment in Bosnia by transporting European U.N. troop reinforcements into the war zone. But TIME's J.F.O. McAllister...