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Senate Democrats, in a growing challenge to President Clinton and European allies, lined up behind Republican leader Bob Dole as the Senate voted 69-29 to end the U.S. arms embargo on Bosnia. The bipartisan clamor grew despitea NATO agreementjust hours earlier to seek pre-emptive air strikes on rebel Serbs in the region. "There's only one thing that's going to protect the Bosnian people againstthe Serb expansion," said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who waved published reports of continued Serb aggression. "And that is if they're allowed to defend themselves." More significant, Senate Republicans have secured...
...prevent an escalation ofthe fighting in the Balkans. Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole, who at Clinton's request delayed action last week to await the results of the NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built-in military advantage for rebel Bosnian Serb forces. "We have an obligation to the Bosnian people and to our principles to allow a U.N. member state, the victim of aggression, to defend itself," he said. Clinton, clearly frustrated, fired off a letter to Senate Republicans warning of a potential U.S. quagmire: "Unilateral lift means unilateral responsibility...
...Karadzic, or for the President of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic? The U.S. and other members of the five-nation Contact Group that is trying to negotiate a settlement in Bosnia have been hoping Milosevic, smarting under tough U.N. economic sanctions, was preparing to recognize the Bosnian state and force the rebel Serbs to sit down to work out an agreement. That might still be true, with the taking of the enclaves a last-stage land grab after which the Bosnian Serbs will be ready to negotiate a peace...
Militant Kashmiri separatists claim two of five hostages they're holding were wounded in crossfire during a gun fight with Indian forces, though who was injured and how badly was not mentioned in the rebel statement. A New Delhi official, Ramamohan Rao, called the account "baseless." At least 12 search parties of federal agents, police and nomads have been combing northern India for two Britons, a German, a Norwegian, and an American since they were kidnapped on July 4. As worsening weather raised fears for the hostages' health, the separatist Al-Faran group reissued its threat to kill the hostages...
About 4,000 more Muslim men among at least 15,000 thought to have been captured in the fall of Srebrenica reached friendly territory in Tuzla after eluding rebel Serbs on a hazardous six-day, 60-mile trek through forests and over mountains. (A Bosnian army spokesman said some received help from the special army units.) "It was a desperate run, but we knew we would be killed or worse, otherwise," Azem Alkanovic, a 38-year-old policeman, told the Associated Press. "There were dozens and dozens of dead bodies on my trail. If you found a wounded...