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Serbs allowed two trucks carrying construction materials and firewood to enter Sarajevo today. U.N. officials said that the cooperation, however limited, with international efforts to aid the devastated city signals that a month-old truce in Bosnia is holding. The concession by the Serbs accompanies a general lessening of armed conflicts in the area following the New Year's Eve ceasefire declaration. "We'll see more humanitarian aid entering the city," promised Enrique Aguilar, the chief U.N. civil affairs officer...
Bosnia: The Truce Unravels...
...began between the Zapatistas, led by ski-masked Subcomandante Marcos, and a government delegation headed by Interior Minister Moctezuma. After a four-hour meeting, the government agreed to pull several hundred occupying troops out of two villages sympathetic to the rebel cause, while the Zapatistas agreed to extend a truce indefinitely. The two sides remained far apart on an accord to end the uprising, though...
...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 Despite the Muslim government's claim that all its soldiers had been withdrawn form a demilitarized zone, U.N. inspectors found about 60 still hunkered down there.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...
...Dudayev, looking pale and tired as he spoke to reporters near the capital, Grozny, where shelling resumed after the announcement. "Of course, we cannot physically confront such an empire as Russia." Dudayev's announcement represented a complete about-face after previous demands that Moscow withdraw its troops before a truce. Nevertheless, he demanded negotiations for Chechen autonomy and accused Russian hard-liners of fomenting civil war with the Caucasian republic as part of a conspiracy to destroy democracy in the Russian Federation...