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Even a visit by the Pope becomes a hot political issue in the former Yugoslavia. The Vatican announced today that Pope John Paul will make a one-day visit to war-weary Sarajevo in early September. He will also visit the Croatian capital of Zagreb. The Vatican said the Pope wanted to stop by Belgrade in Serb-dominated Yugoslavia, but the Serbians said the time wasn't right...
...Sarajevo, in clear violation of the U.N.-imposed heavy-weapons exclusion zone that has kept the Bosnian capital virtually free of shelling since February. The symbolic NATO strike did the trick. Within two hours, Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the self-styled Bosnian Serb parliament, had phoned U.N. officials in Zagreb to say that the stolen weapons would be returned. By the next day they had been handed back...
...ZAGREB -- The U.N. protection force (UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia would rather obstruct the media than risk exacerbating tension between the warring factions. Last week it denied journalists access to an area of eastern Croatia that was devastated by Serbs two years ago and is now ostensibly under U.N. control. Said a top unprofor officer: "We have a gentlemen's agreement with the Serbs. We promised not to show things that might embarrass them to journalists." Because they thought it might inflame local passions, unprofor also withheld from reporters a videotape made by U.N. troops showing Bosnian Croat tanks destroying...
...hours before Akashi released word of the accord, he issued a statement calling a halt to the U.N.'s Gorazde venture. "I believe it would be meaningless in present circumstances for ((the U.N. peacekeeping force)) to fulfill its activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina," he said. A U.N. official in Zagreb made the point more forcefully: "Either we close up shop or we come back with a huge army...
...outside world beginning Wednesday. The U.N.-brokered accord does not permit military or commercial traffic. In Washington, Bosnian Croats and Muslims signed the constitution of a new federated state, confederating it with Croatia. Meanwhile, Croatian Serbs and the government of Croatia said that they will meet in Zagreb this week to hold peace talks aimed at ending their three-year...