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...successful campaigns, the army of the Muslim-led Bosnian government always seemed to be the beleaguered combatant, retreating from Serb onslaughts, unable to recover the initiative. Thus, when the government ordered up to 15,000 of its troops to mass north and west of its besieged capital of Sarajevo, few expected anything dramatic-even after a nationwide state of alert was imposed and the populace was warned that something had to be done "to prevent an obvious catastrophe...
...then the Bosnian guns opened up. Beginning Thursday morning, Bosnian artillery, machine-gun and infantry attacks raked rebel Serb positions 10 to 12 miles north of Sarajevo, and fighting spread to the west and southwest. Inside the city, government units pressed out toward the heights on which Serb heavy artillery, mortars and armored vehicles encircle the capital. The Serbs responded by blasting government strongpoints below and lobbed shells into civilian areas, hitting a hospital...
...troops who will form a rapid-reaction force to back up the 22,500 U.N. peacekeepers already in the country. The landing on Mount Igman also seemed to lend support to the Bosnia U.N. military command's tentative plan to open a supply route from besieged Sarajevo to the sea at Split...
...French for weeks have been demanding that the U.N. force be either beefed up or pulled out. Once the decision to reinforce was made, French officials said they were eager to use the new reaction force to open the road for supplies to Sarajevo, protect U.N.-designated "safe zones" and enforce freedom of movement on other roads as well. The peacekeepers have always had the right to use force if necessary, but as a French diplomat says, "up until now they have not had the means or equipment to do so. That's what the rapid-reaction force...
...370peacekeeper hostageswere released. What sort of relationship depends on which side's account of the terms is accurate. The Serbs claim U.N. officials have pledged not to launch any more air strikes. The U.N. denies any linkage. U.N. troops have abandoned to Serb forces the heavy weapons depots around Sarajevo, andthe U.N.says it will work to re-establish supply routes for humanitarian aid to embattled Muslim enclaves. "Certainly this marks a retreat for the U.N.," saysTIME's Mark Thompson. "The question is, now that they've got these peacekeepers out of areas where they are potential hostages, what will they...