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...strafe any Serb targets, including ammunition dumps and fuel depots as well as weapons, within a 12.5-mile perimeter. That extended to Gorazde and the five other havens the concepts of an ultimatum and an exclusion zone that had some, though not complete, success in easing the siege of Sarajevo. But the threat also opened the way for the creeping military involvement that many Americans dread...
Lake, "happy today" about the more muscular approach to Bosnia, defends his embattled boss. He points out that every bit of progress in that country has come from U.S. initiative: the NATO resolution last August against Sarajevo's strangulation, the no-fly zone, the air drops, the Sarajevo exclusion zone, the Croat-Muslim agreement and the new ultimatums. Says he: "It's unbelievable to me that we can make progress that no one would have predicted two months ago, through a lot of hard work by the President. Then you get Gorazde, which was a setback, and the critics start...
...immediately retaliate by killing peacekeeping troops, as NATO had feared, but at least two were wounded -- and one subsequently died -- in the continued fighting. Serbs abducted some blue helmets at gunpoint and held hostage more than 200 U.N. soldiers and civilians. They surrounded several artillery depots around Sarajevo and on Saturday reportedly seized heavy weapons sequestered by peacekeepers...
Just hours after the Bosnian parliament ratified an agreement that would create a federation with Bosnian Croats, U.S. officials pledged $10 million for the reconstruction of Sarajevo. At week's end U.N. officials reported at least 17 Muslims and two Croats murdered by Bosnian Serbs in the northern Bosnian town of Prijedor...
BOSNIA: Easing the Sarajevo Siege...