Word: truce
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...course, a lasting cease-fire must take effect. The two sides agreed to end hostilities on Friday. As so often before, they promised not to shoot first, but this time they also pledged not to retaliate even if they are fired upon. U.N. officials were hopeful that a real truce would take hold. But fighting broke out after the deadline and by some reports continued into the weekend...
...chair of the European Community's peace conference on Yugoslavia, Lord Carrington, was optimistic that the latest U.N.-mediated truce would last in secessionist Croatia after the failure of 14 previous cease-fires...
Almost weekly now, either publicly or privately, Bush sends a message to Saddam Hussein to live by the truce signed last March. "I intend to see that he abides by every one of those U.N. resolutions," Bush tells his staff. The President is unwavering in his belief that the time has come for the U.S. to assert its interests in the Middle East, even when it means opposing Israel...
...fragile truce -- the sixth in just three months -- held only nine days. Last week the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army, charging that Croatia had violated the cease-fire, launched a new offensive aimed at crushing resistance in the rebel republic. The main targets of the onslaught were the key Croatian towns of Vukovar, Vinkovci and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia's best-known tourist attraction on the Adriatic coast. As warships blockaded the port city, air- force jets bombed and strafed it, while artillery pounded the area, leaving Dubrovnik without electricity and water...
...week's end the leaders of Serbia and Croatia agreed on the outlines of yet another truce. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and federal Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic agreed to call off the offensive, while Croatian President Franjo Tudjman pledged to lift blockades around federal army bases. Both sides also pledged to discuss new political arrangements for the protection of minorities. But the news produced no immediate break in the fighting, raising fears that the atavistic struggle might be beyond diplomatic solution...