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Shrugging off three separate nato air strikes -- including the largest air raid in Europe since World War II -- Bosnian Serbs continued their advance on the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia. The besieged region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready...
NATO fighter planes from the United States, Britain and France struck at least two surface-to-air missile sites this morning in two air raids as Bosnian Serb fighters, for the first time, broke into the U.N.-designated safe haven of Bihac. The NATO raid was a more direct attack on a weapons site following Monday's attack on the same site that merely left craters in an airport runway as a warning. This week's Serb assault on Bihac, now held by Bosnian Muslims, has increasedinternational pressure for tougher NATO sanctionsand actions against the Serbs, who today reportedly threatened...
...successful attack prompted praise from President Clinton -- who called it "a good step in the right direction" -- and from U.S. allies like the United Kingdom. In Serbia, where the government since August has kept its distance from Bosnian Serbs, a top level minister reportedly slammed the U.N. calling the raid "a brutal reprisal." On the battlefield, U.N. forces went on alert for reprisals from Serbs and started resupplying troops in Bihac -- who had enough rations for just five more days.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...Microsoft's Bill Gates? "Premature." How about an art-film division run by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, whose Miramax Films Katzenberg bought for Disney last year? "It would be wrong to speculate about that stuff, knowing they still have many years to go under the Disney contract." Will he raid Disney for animation talent? "I'm not in this to be a spoiler...
...then Duchin had learned the Washington Post was planning to print its . story about the proposed rescue raid. He says he conferred with senior Pentagon officials on May 20 to see if they had any objection, and they did not. Duchin told Post editors that they could go ahead...