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...threatened NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serbs and, for the first time, against Muslims, unless both sides stop violations of a cease-fire. The U.N. was responding to heavy shelling near Sarajevo by the warring parties in the past week...
NATO planes bombed a target near Sarajevo as punishment to the Bosnian Serbs for seizing weapons from a U.N. depot. At least one antitank gun was confirmed hit, the Pentagon said. Sixteen NATO planes executed the attack, at the request of the U.N. The Bosnian Serbs apparently learned their lesson after the NATO strike and agreed to return the weapons they took. The latest attack represents a tightening of the noose around the Bosnian Serbs, who have few friends left. According to TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James L. Graff, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic today enforced...
...their part, the Bosnian Serbs also viewed the 49% share they were allotted as too small; their troops have already captured 72% of the country. Last week they presented additional demands, including Serbian access to the Adriatic Sea, a share in governing the capital city, Sarajevo, an end to economic sanctions against Serbia proper and certain "constitutional arrangements." The last is a veiled reference to the Bosnian Serbs' call for recognition as a separate state free to merge one day into a Greater Serbia. For the Bosnian government, on the other hand, a legal unity of the state is essential...
...Bosnian Serbs if an all-out war broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Even the Serb President, Slobodan Milosevic, has warned the recalcitrant Bosnian Serbs by threatening to cut off their supplies and funding. Are the Serbs getting the point? Apparently not. They're continuing their siege of Sarajevo and their effort to drive Muslims from northeast Bosnia. "The Bosnian Serbs think they will somehow wiggle out of this just like they've wiggled out of every other ultimatum," says TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff...
Bosnian Serbs said they would cut off commercial and civilian traffic going in and out of Sarajevo tomorrow-- returning the city to its crippled, besieged state of a few months back. The Serbs claimed they had to impose new strictures to stop Muslims from smuggling arms into Sarajevo. To insiders, however, it looks more like a test of the West's resolve, following the Serbs' rejection of a peace plan backed by the U.S., Russia and much of Western Europe. "The Serbs know that if the West doesn't do anything about Sarajevo, it won't do anything to force...