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...that freezes the advantage." In New York today, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called for disarmament as well as an extension of the treaty. While U.S. envoy Tom Graham predicted that two-thirds of the 182 countries present will vote with the U.S. at the end of the three-week showdown, Thompson notes that State Department officials privately say the vote is in jeopardy...
Shapiro did not return over 20 calls to herroom over a three-week period...
...Minister Yitzhak Rabin and p.l.o. leader Yasser Arafat failed to reach agreement on how to begin expanding Palestinian authority without compromising Israeli security. Rabin continued to insist that Islamic extremists must be controlled before there is any more discussion of Palestinian self-rule. And he refused to lift the three-week closure of the occupied territories that keeps tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs in Israel...
...three-week truce in Bosnia neared the edge of collapse today, as fighting escalated in the northwest and both Bosnian Serbs and Muslims violated the terms of the agreement. Despite the Muslim government's claim that all its soldiers had been withdrawn form a demilitarized zone, U.N. inspectors found about 60 still hunkered down there. The Serbs refused to carry out their pledge to open a land route out of beseiged Sarajevo. Instead, they blocked movement of U.N. military convoys in much of the territory they control. Sunday, Serb shelling in Bihac, in northwest Bosnia, killed two teen-age girls...
...told police that the six men, who are all Cuban, had planned to go their separate ways after their flight. The prisoners used spoons to dig a 60-ft. tunnel, 8 ft. under the ground, from the prison chapel to the other side of the surrounding wall over a three-week period...