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General Dragomir Milosevic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb forces around Sarajevo, said he would remove the rest of his army's heavy weapons before a NATO deadline Wednesday. Serbs have withdrawn about half of their weapons so far. From Sarajevo, Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that U.N. officials say they are pleased with the Serb compliance. Serbs have rounded up many of their weapons in preparation for transportation outside the 12.5 mile exclusion zone around the city. Late Sunday night, NATO gave them another 72 hours to pull back, but warned that air strikes would resume if all the guns weren...
...Waller, "the Bosnian Serbs might not come to the Geneva peace talks on Friday." The U.N. had demanded that over 300 artillery pieces and tanks be pulled out of the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around the city, but as of today, only about 20 weapons appeared to have been withdrawn. (The Serbs say they need more time, fearing that a complete withdrawal would leave their brethren in the suburbs of Sarajevo unprotected.) Technically, Waller says, a Bosnian Serb boycott of the talks may not matter, since Serbian President Milosevic will head the delegation. Still, it remains to be seen just...
...Serb strongholds of Knin in Croatia and Banja Luka in Bosnia. Artillery fire sent 5,000 Serb civilians fleeing from the town of Bosansko Grahovo, which the Croats captured on Friday. Croat forces followed up by taking nearby Glamoc and shelling Strmica. Karadzic confirmed that his army had "withdrawn to reserve positions" and ordered full mobilization in the 70% of Bosnia already in his grasp...
...participant in this summer's Faculty Performance Dance Series has withdrawn one of her pieces from the performance after being told she was required to change portions of the dance...
Lynn Shapiro, founder, choreographer and director of a New York based dance company, has withdrawn her dance piece "Under Ice" after Iris Fanger, director of the Dance Center in the Harvard Summer School, required that she change scenes which contained male and female frontal nudity, Shapiro said...