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...there is still bitter disagreement over what specific areas will be allotted to each side. The peace plan the U.S. has been putting together suggests, for example, that the Bosnian government trade Gorazde, its sole, isolated enclave in the east, for control over all of the capital city of Sarajevo. The Bosnians insist they will never surrender Gorazde, and the Serbs, for their part, demand both Gorazde and a portion of the capital for their republic...
Despite the focus on peace, the war in Bosnia has pulled in a new belligerent: NATO. As the official protector of the four remaining U.N.-declared safe areas, NATO retaliated with air power last month after a Serb mortar shell killed 43 people in Sarajevo. On Aug. 30, the alliance launched heavy attacks on Serb military storage areas, ammunition plants, missile sites and radar and communications centers around Sarajevo, the Serbs' capital of Pale and other parts of Bosnia. NATO then warned Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic that he had to pull his heavy weapons back from the city...
...carefully enough to permit them to claim that they are still peacemakers and are not fighting Mladic's Bosnian Serb army. "I do not consider myself to be taking sides," says Admiral Leighton Smith, the NATO commander in the region. The 300 or so artillery pieces and tanks ringing Sarajevo--the weapons Mladic has been told to pull back from the 12.5-mile-wide U.N. exclusion zone around the city--have not been targeted. For now, that would be too blatant an intervention and, at the same time, might dangerously encourage the Muslim forces to take the offensive...
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...
Defense Secretary William Perry today denied Russian claims that NATO bombings around Sarajevo have resulted in children's deaths. He said had seen "no evidence of any civilian casualties" after a personal review of over 100 targets struck by Allied fire since the raids began on Aug 30. Perry said the accuracy of the airstrikes in Bosnia was so good it surpassed even the performance of Allied bombers in the Persian Gulf War. "Of course Serb television is always reporting that civilians are being killed," Alexandra Stiglmayer reports from Sarajevo. "But they never give any numbers of how many were...