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...possibility of U.S. and Western involvement in the fighting, if it resumes. Four Yugoslav planes buzzed two American warships in the Adriatic. Though no shots were fired, three of the planes turned back only after American radar had locked on to them -- a preliminary step to shooting. In Sarajevo a Canadian member of the United Nations peacekeeping force exchanged fire with a Serbian sniper, who was killed. Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon nothing...
Already, says a senior British diplomat, "Bosnia-Herzegovina has ceased to exist." Even if the cease-fire were to hold, Serbs control about two-thirds of the country, and Croats have proclaimed a quasi-independent republic in ! most of the rest. Sarajevo, if it should be able to hold out, looks increasingly like a Balkan West Berlin: cut off from any countryside, capital of Nowheresville. Outside city limits, only a few slivers of territory remain under the control of the Muslim Slavs who constitute 41% of Bosnia's population...
...even the slivers are vanishing. "While ((French President Francois)) Mitterrand's visit diverted the world's attention to Sarajevo, the Serbs got all they wanted in northern Bosnia," says Vinko Begic, mayor of Derventa, one of the last towns to fall to the Serb offensive. In eastern Bosnia, only Gorazde, a town whose normal population of 20,000 has been swollen to 70,000 by a tide of refugees, remains a haven for the Muslims, and it is under heavy siege...
While world attention has centered on Sarajevo, the Serbs and Croats who already control most of Bosnia have been taking over more of what had been - left outside their grasp. A Serb offensive in northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side...
...Ciglane neighborhood, no one had yet seen any of the more than 900 tons of food and medical supplies airlifted to Sarajevo since July 3. The battered Zetra Stadium, site of the hockey competition in the 1984 Winter Olympics, has been designated one of four warehouses to store the foodstuffs brought from the airport under escort by U.N. armored personnel carriers. On Thursday half a dozen trucks from surrounding neighborhoods waited all day for a delivery due at 10 in the morning...