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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CF5H0994 Date: 11/05/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 01:16pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 7 times)
Subj: N.A.T.O. SECRETARY GENERAL UPDATE

Belgium, Italy, and Portugal have followed France, Germany, and the United
Kingdom in backing former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers as the next
N.A.T.O. Secretary General. Lubbers visited Washington, D.C., on Thursday
and met with Secretary of State Warren Christopher, National Security
Adviser Anthony Lake, and Deputy Secretary of Defense John P. White. The
other lading candidate, former Danish Foreign Minister Uffe
Ellemann-Jensen, met with the same people on Friday. He has the backing of
Denmark, Iceland, and Norway.

The Netherlands formally nominated Lubbers for the position Friday. (Craig
R. Whitney/N.Y.T.)

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Subject: OMRI Daily Digest 2.11.1995.

English: ITEMS FOR THE OMRI DAILY DIGEST These are news items
written for the Daily Digest of the Open Media Research Institute in
Prague. They are not the final version and may appear differently or
not at all in the Daily Digest. For fair use only.

 BALKAN PEACE TALKS OPEN. U.S. Secretary of State Warren
Christopher and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke on 1
November convened peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, bringing together
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, Bosnian President Alija
Izetbegovic, and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, international
media report. Before the talks, Holbrooke stressed at least a measure
of success was imperative, as failure may prove costly. "If we don't
succeed, the war will resume and it will resume at a higher level,"
Reuters quoted him as saying. Meanwhile, Christopher has said that
any peace accord must enshrine four basic principles: Bosnia's
existence as a single state; a special status for the capital, Sarajevo;
protection of human rights and the bringing to justice of those
involved in war crimes and atrocities; and the return to Croatian
jurisdiction of of rebel Serb-held Slavonia. * Stan Markotich

 DID CHIRAC PREVENT NATO AIR RAIDS IN SREBRENICA... Die
Tageszeitung on 1 November carried a story, based on UN and French
sources close to the government, saying that on French President
Jacques Chirac's orders, UN commander General Bernard Janvier did
not authorize air raids to prevent the fall of Srebrenica. The paper
said that Janvier rejected five requests by the Dutch peacekeepers in
Srebrenica for air support after the Bosnian Serbs started attacking
the town on 6 July. Die Tageszeitung further said that Chirac gave the
order not to fly air raids at the beginning of July, even before the
Serbian offensive, and that the French and U.S. secret services were
aware of Serbian plans. * Fabian Schmidt

..BUT ONLY AFTER SECURITY COUNCIL REACHED AGREEMENT? At a
UN Security Council meeting on 24 May, the three Contact Group
members Britain, France, and Russia called for abandoning
Srebrenica Zepa and Gorazde and the U.S. and Germany "tacitly
consented," AFP and Die Tageszeitung reported on 1 November. The
French government has declined to comment. Meanwhile, the rump
Yugoslav government denied reports in the Washington Post on 29
October saying that its troops were involved in the conquest of
Srebrenica. It also denied the existence of prison camps for Bosnian
Muslims on rump Yugoslav territory. * Fabian Schmidt

BOSNIAN SERBS HAND OVER EVIDENCE TO WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL.
The Association Of Camp Detainees 1991 handed over dossiers, based
on testimony given by 10 victims and witnesses to the International
War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. The association says the
documents reportedly attest to the killing of 60 Serbs and the torture
of many more. They also name "10 to 20 perpetrators," including
"very high officials of the Bosnian and Croatian governments," AFP
reported on 1 November. * Fabian Schmidt

ACCUSED BOSNIAN SERB WAR CRIMINALS STAND IN WAY OF US
TROOPS. AFP on 1 November reported that Warren Christopher has
also suggested that US troops are would not to go to Bosnia as long as
Bosnian Serb civilian leader Radovan Karadzic and his military
counterpart General Ratko Mladic hold power. Christopher said of the
Bosnian Serb leaders, "They are indicted war criminals... We can't
really expect the forces of NATO to be there at the same time that
those individuals are in positions of power." * Stan Markotich

SERBIAN OPPOSITION LEADER STANDS BEHIND PARTITION OF
BOSNIA. BETA on 1 November reported statements by Serbia's
opposition Democratic Pary (DS) leader Zoran Djindjic, who has gone
on record as saying that his hope is that Dayton peace talks will
effectively result in a partition of Bosnia. He said he stands behind
the objective that talks result in at least a recognition of the
Republika Srpska, and that they provide Bosnian Serb conquered
territory with "an administrative, political and territorial integrity
within Bosnia and Herzegovina." * Stan Markotich

EXPULSIONS OF MUSLIMS CONTINUE IN NORTH WESTERN BOSNIA.
According to the UNHCR the Bosnian Serbs are continuing to expel
Bosnian Muslims and Croats from the area around Banja Luka, AFP
reports on 1 November. The expulsions included 44 people who had
been "violently thrown out of their homes" and crossed the Sava into
Croatia. The expulsions contradict the current ceasefire. In unrelated
news, after a delay of five days the "Brotherhood and Unity" bridge
in Sarajevo opened and 14 people crossed between the Bosnian Serb
controlled and the government controlled half of the town. Both
sides, however, maintain complicated application procedures for
visitors from the respective other side. * Fabian Schmidt

MACEDONIA ADMITTED TO PHARE PROGRAM. The Foreign Ministers
Committee of the European Union has accepted the EU Commission's
recommendation to admit Macedonia to the PHARE program,
Macedonian Radio reported on 1 November. The move was
announced during a two-day visit to Macedonia by a European
Parliament delegation. The 13 September Greek-Macedonian
agreement has removed the last obstacle to Macedonia's admission,
which should unlock considerable financial assistance for the
country. * Michael Wyzan      
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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFAJ3339 Date: 11/06/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 03:55pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 10 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

David Rohde, 28, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, is in
good physical condition but is mentally exhausted from several days of
questioning by Bosnian Serbs. Rohde was allowed to make a telephone call
to his parents Saturday night from a room near his cell in Bijeljina. A
member of the International Committee of the Red Cross/Crescent vistied
him. He was arrested Oct. 29 near Zvornik. The Bosnian Serbs, who say then
will hold him for at least two weeks, charged him with "illegal border
crossing and staying on the territory of the Republika Srpska and for
falsifying documents." Rohde's parents went to the peace talks at
Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Ohio, Friday night to plead for his release. The
telephone call was arranged by a Bosnian Serb vice president, Nikola
Koljevic, after meetings with the family, U.S. Assistant Secretary of
State Richard C. Holbrooke, U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia John Menzies, and
Koljevic. A U.S. Embassy representative drove to Bijeljina yesterday but
was not able to see Rohde.

A draft Bosnian constitution being discussed at the peace talks says that
any eligable voter may seek a proposed nine-member presidency or 36 member
parliament "except a person under indictment, or convicted by, the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia." The draft also says
that all competent authorities shall "cooperate with and provide
unrestricted access to" the tribunal. This draft would bar Bosnian Serb
political leader Radovan Karadzic and military leader GEN Ratko Mladic
from seeking a presidency of parliamentary seat, and officials would be
obliged to try to arrest them. Also in draft is that the presidency would
consist of two-thirds from the Bosnian - Croatian federation and a third
from the Serbian republic. At least one civilian from each side will have
civilian command authority over the armed forces from their side. Armed
forces will not enter into the other side and stay there without that
side's and the presidency's approval. The 11-page document also calls for
a rotating chairmanship of the presidency (it should be noted that a
rotating presidency was installed after Tito's death in 1980, and this
proved unworkable and contributed to its disintegration). The chairman is
to be elected by its members and rotate so that each has an equal time of
the four year term. This means each member would be chairman for just
under five and a half months.

The draft also calls for a constitutional court with nine members (four
from the federation, two from the Serbs, and three selected by the
President of the European Court of Justice after consulting with the
presidency.) Rulings, such as whether any attempt by Serbs to form a
confederation with Serbia is legal, would be by majority. (Roger Cohen and
Kit R. Roane/N.Y.T.)

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Subject: OMRI Daily Digest 7.11.1995.

BOSNIAN ARMY COMMANDER SAYS PEACE DEPENDS ON MILOSEVIC. General Rasim Delic
told the Sarajevo paper Dnevni Avaz that Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic is the one to make "crucial decisions" for the Serbian side. Hina
on 6 November quoted him as adding that he did "not know whether
[Milosevic] is yet willing to do so." The general stated that his troops
will do their part to implement any peace agreement once it is finalized.
But Mlada Fronta Dnes on 7 November noted that Delic also said that "if the
talks do not succeed, the Bosnian army will launch a new liberation
campaign." In another development, seven French soldiers were lightly
wounded when three gunmen attacked them at Vrapcici, near Mostar, on 5
November. AFP quoted a French spokesman as saying "we have no idea who [the
attackers] were." The gunmen escaped, apparently wounded. * Patrick Moore


SERBIAN PRESIDENT SAID TO BE "UPSET." Nasa Borba on 7 November reported
that Serbian President Slobodan "Milosevic is upset because he thinks the
Americans brought him to Dayton on false pretenses." Milosevic is said to
be most concerned about the demand that his negotiating team agree to the
ouster of Bosnian Serb civilian leader Radovan Karadzic and his military
counterpart, General Ratko Mladic, before the implementation of any
regional peace accord. Milosevic is reportedly not opposed to Karadzic and
Mladic facing trial at the Hague on charges of war crimes, but he has
stressed that both men must first be convicted in Serbia of any wrongdoing.
He also insists that the Dayton talks are focusing only on issues agreed to
in advance, which allegedly do not include the fate of the Bosnian Serb
leaders, Reuters reported. * Stan Markotich

BOUTROS GHALI SAYS DUTCH DID "GOOD WORK." The Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung on 7 November quoted the UN secretary-general as saying that the
small "Dutchbat" stationed at Srebrenica had acted within the limits of its
mandate. He noted that UN member countries did not make available anywhere
near the number of troops that the world body had requested for
peacekeeping in the first place. The Dutch have been widely criticized at
home and abroad for allegedly turning a blind eye to Serbian massacres of
thousands of Muslims, primarily civilian males, in July. Boutros Boutros
Ghali said it was not Dutchbat's assignment "to defend the enclave" and
that he has "no criticism [of the Dutch]. They performed good work."
Meanwhile Nasa Borba reported that in Banja Luka, the number of Serbian
refugees stands at 71,750. Some 60,240 of them have been moved out of
reception points and into "individual accomodations." * Patrick Moore

SARAJEVO GAS SUPPLIES CUT. Three weeks after natural gas again started
flowing to the Bosnian capital, supplies have been reduced again, Hina
reported on 6 November. A UN official said the reasons are technical and
not political. Besides the great losses of gas due to the makeshift
pipelines, the biggest obstacle is money. UN experts estimate that supplies
for November will cost around $1 million, while the total for the winter
will be $20-30 million. Meanwhile, the Russian gas supplier Gazprom wants
to charge the Bosnian government for October gas deliveries, while agreeing
to freeze a debt from previous years. The spokesman said that the UN has
been looking for international donors but without results. * Daria Sito
Sucic

BOSNIAN REFUGEE AGREEMENT NOT YET IMPLEMENTED. Implementation of the
agreement reached in Dayton on 2 November by Bosnian President Alija
Izetbegovic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to allow 600 families
inside Bosnia to return home has not yet begun. According to a 6 November
AFP report, Sarajevo accused Bosnian Croat authorities of not allowing
several hundred Muslim families to return to Jajce, while Tudjman blamed
"extremists" on both sides. At the same time, repatriation of Velika
Kladusa refugees organized by the UNHCR on a voluntary basis has
successfully started, Hina reported on 6 November. * Daria Sito Sucic

SANDZAK PARTY DEMANDS UNITY OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. The Executive Committee
of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak issued a declaration saying a
"just peace" is not possible "without the unity of Bosnia-Herzegovina [in
its internationally recognized borders; the return of refugees to their
houses; and free, democratic elections under international control." The
declaration, published by Montena-fax on 6 November, also states that no
war criminals be allowed to participate in elections. * Fabian Schmidt

CROATIA ANNOUNCES MAJOR OIL FIND. The Croatian oil company INA has
discovered an important new oil and gas field near Bjelovar. AFP on 6
November quoted INA spokesmen as saying it will be the third-largest such
field in Croatia and that it is expected to yield 70 tons of oil and 3
million cubic metres of natural gas daily. The annual revenue is expected
to be $3 million. Plans are under way to begin operations before the end of
the year, despite the onset of harsh winter weather. * Patrick Moore

BALKANS HIT BY BLIZZARDS. Local and international agencies on 6 November
reported that heavy snowstorms in  the Balkans have disrupted
transportation, shut down ports and airports, and contributed to a dozen
traffic deaths in Romania. In Sarajevo, the supply route over Mount Igman
was blocked and there were a rash of traffic accidents, some involving UN
vehicles. The Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna and the Romanian port of
Constanta were closed due to four-meter high waves. The weather caused a
backup of trucks and buses on the main Bulgarian highway to to Greece and
Macedonia. A large number of roads and some airports had to be closed in
Romania. In Moldova, hundreds of villages were plunged into cold and
darkness when heavy snow disrupted electricity supplies. * Michael Shafir
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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFCJ2522 Date: 11/08/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 03:42pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 9 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

The United States said yesterday that it is withholding information from
the International Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia because of "national
security reasons." It is the first time that the United States has made
the announcement, despite the state policy of cooperation fully with the
tribunal. (Elaine Sciolino/N.Y.T.)

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TODAY'S BLOODBATH TOOK GENERATIONS TO BUILD

By William Matthews                        
Army Times Staff Writer
11/13/95    

   For four years, war has made Bosnia a land of horror: torture, 
slaughter, rape, nudmght arrests and mass executions.
    
   It has left a quarter-million Bosnians dead and made refugees of more 
than half the country's prewar population of 41/2 million, according to 
the U.S. State Department.
    
   Whether U.S. troops enter this devastated land to pick up the pieces 
depends on peace talks now under way. The talks, said Secretary of State 
Warren Christopher, may be "the last, best chance for peace in Bosnia." 
But, chief U.S. mediator Richard Holbrooke warned, the leaders of the 
warring factions "talk peace but they don't show the slightest readiness 
for compromise."

Key players aren't negotiating
     
   Some of the key players in the conflict are not even at the peace table 
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
     
   The political chief of the Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, and their military 
commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, cannot leave Bosnia without risking arrest.  
Both have been indicted by the United Nations for war crimes.
     
   Instead, the Serb side is being represented by Serbian President 
Slobodan Milosevic who is widely considered to be chiefly responsible for 
starting the war. Milosevic joins Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
and Bosnian President Ahlia Izetbegovic.
     
   The three are considering a plan by the United States and its allies to 
keep Bosnia whole, but place 51 percent of the territory under control of 
the Bosnian-Croat Federation and 49 percent under control of the Bosnian 
Serbs.
     
What brought them to this point?
     
   According to U.S. government officials and Bosnian scholars, the 
Bosnian war was primarily the product of Serb nationalism whipped up by 
Milosevic. Croatian territorial ambitions also played a part, and the 
collapse of communism in Yugoslavia created the opportunity.
     
   In a sense, the war developed over centuries during which various 
peoples with different cultures have jostled for power. Yugoslavia, the 
single country they formed, did not come into existence until earlier in
this century. Even as a federated republic under Josip Broz Tito, 
Yugoslavia strained at the searns.
     
   To follow events from Tito's day to the current-day bloodshed:
     
   May 1980: Tito's death sets the stage for the republics to split apart.
   In 1990, the Communist Party cedes its constitutional guarantee of a 
   leading role in Yugoslav society and calls for a multiparty system.
    
   1987: Milosevic is elected chief of the Serbian socialist party. To 
   solidify his power, he embraces Serbian nationalism and fans the fervor 
   for a "Greater Serbia." The movement sparks fear among Yugoslavia's 
   other large ethnic groups, Croats and the Bosnian Mushms.
    
   June 1991: The republic of Croatia declares independence. Serbia reacts 
   by attacking, overrunning the Krajina region and expelling non-Serb 
   residents.
    
   April 1992: Fighting breaks out in Bosnia. Serbs attack after 
   Bosnia-Herzegovina declares its independence -- despite the opposition 
   of Bosnian Serbs. Serbian Democratic Party leader Radovan Karadzic
   declares a "Serb Republic" within Bosnia. "Ethnic cleansing" begins as 
   Serbs seize territory and expel non-Serbs. Sarajevo, the Bosnian 
   capital, is quickly surrounded, kept alive only by an international 
   effort to deliver food and medicine.
    
   October 1992: United Nations imposes a "no-fly" zone over Bosnia, 
   threatening to shoot down hostile aircraft, the aim being to halt 
   Serbian air attacks. This gives rise to Operation Deny Flight.
    
   February 1994: In a sign of how the Bosnian war has escalated, a mortar 
   shell fired into a Sarajevo market kills 68 people, prompting NATO to 
   launch the first combat missions in its history. Despite NATO 
   intervention, by year's end 70 percent of Bosnia is under Serbian 
   occupation, according to the State Department.
    
   March 1994: Croats and the Bosnian government form a marriage of 
   convenience to counter the Serbs' military power.
    
   May 1995: Serb fighters seize dozens of U.N. peacekeepers and use them 
   as human shields to prevent NATO air strikes. 
    
   August 1995: Serb troops overrun United Nations-protected areas at 
   Srebrenica and Zepa. A Serb mortar round again lands in a Sarajevo 
   marketplace, this time killing 37 and wounding more than 80. The
   incident touches off a massive NATO reaction. For two weeks, NATO 
   planes, dominated by U.S. Air Force and Navy fighters, attack hundreds 
   of Serbian targets, demolishing ammunition dumps, air defenses and
   command bunkers.
   
   August and September 1995: Capitalizing on the weakened Serbs, Bosnian
   government and Croat forces launch a major offensive in the northwest 
   and recapture much of the territory the Serbs have seized.
    
   Oct. 12, 1995: A cease-fire negotiated by the United States takes 
   effect.
   
   Nov. 1, 1995: Peace talks begin.

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFDM0765 Date: 11/09/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 06:12pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 9 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

Russian Defense Minister GEN Pavel S. Grachev and U.S. Secretary of
Defense William J. Perry announced yesterday that a Russian brigade of two
or three infantry battalions will take part in the peacekeeping operation
in Bosnia by serving with a U.S. division, without technically taking
orders from N.A.T.O. The Russian commander, COL GEN Leontil P. Shevtsov
will take orders directly from the U.S. divison commander, MAJ GEN William
Nash, 1st Armored Division. This supercedes previous agreements.

Christian Science Monitor correspondent David Rohde was released yesterday
by the Bosnian Serbs after nine days in jail. He was deprived of sleep for
the first five days and was allowed inside a 10 by 20 foot cell with five
other inmates for only 30 minutes a day. The United States says the
release came after days of talks with Bosnian Serb representatives in
Sarajevo, but Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says the release was a
good will gesture towards the peace talks. All charges, including one for
which he was given a 15 day sentence, have been dropped. However, Bosnian
Serbs still say he is an intelligence agent for Bosnian Muslims and a
Western country. Rohde is at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade.

The U.S. State Department said yesterday that it would insure that the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia gets any intelligence
information relevant to its inquiries. The State Department said that it
would seek to protect the sources of any information turned over.
(Reuters, Kit R. Roane and Craig R. Whitney/N.Y.T.)

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TRIBUNAL LINKS SERBIA TO HOSPITAL MASSACRE

USA Today
November 10, 1995
      
   The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal directly linked Serbia to Balkan war 
crimes for the first time Thursday, indicting three Serb army officers in 
a hospital massacre. The indictment charged that soldiers rounded up 261 
non-Serb men from the Vukovar Hospital in November 1991, beat them, then 
shot them to death. The officers were not accused of particpating part in 
the actual massacre but were accused of war crimes and crimes against 
humanity because they had "conunand responsibility" for their troops.
      
   The three indicted were Mile Mrksic, who as a Yugoslav Army colonel was 
in command of the Belgrade-based Guards Brigade; Miroslav Radic, a captain 
in command of a special infantry unit and Veselin Sljivancanin, a major
serving as a security officer. The likelihood of bringing the officers 
to trial is slim. The tribunal does not have the power to try in 
absentia and the Yugoslav constitution prohibits turning Serbs over for 
trial outside the country.

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NATO SEARCH

USA Today
November 10, 1995
      
   The search for a new NATO secretary-general has turned nasty, risking a 
major transatlantic rift between the leading European allies and the 
United States, alliance diplomats said Thursday. Britain, France and 
Germany favor former Dutch prime minister Ruud Lubbers. And Washington 
prefers former Danish foreign minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen and shows no 
sign of relenting. Nato's 16 ambassadors who make up the policy-making
North Atlantic Council, are set to discuss the issue today.

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FEWER AMERICANS SUPPORT BOSNIA PEACEKEEPING ROLE

By Steve Komarow & Richard Benedetto
USA Today
November 10, 1995
      
   Public skepticism about sending U.S. peacekeeping troops to 
Bosnia-Hercegovina is on the rise, as diplomatic efforts to end the war 
are gaining.

   A USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds 49% of the American public opposes 
sending U.S. troops to the former Yugoslavia, while 47% are in favor. In
September, 52% favored sending troops.

   Part of the problem stems from public perception that Clinton has not
led on the issue.

   * 38% approve of Clinton's handling of the Bosnia situation, 46% 
disapprove.

   * 58% say Clinton has not adequately explained why U.S. troops should
be sent.

   The president is expected to make a nationwide appeal for support once
a peace pact is reached. He has said troops would not go without a treaty.

   Secretary of State Warren Christopher goes to Dayton, Ohio, today to
give a high-level push to the U.S.-backed talks.

   "I hope I'll be able to make some progress," said Christopher. There
are encouraging signs, he said, but "many, many hard problems remain."

   Clinton has promised up to 25,000 U.S. troops as part of a 
60,000-strong NATO force that would enter the former Yugoslavia and
enforce a peace pact. Russia has agreed to take part if its troops 
serve under U.S. control and not directly under the NATO command.

   In wooing members of Congress, Clinton said he'd insist on a true peace
before troops go in, and has promised he would take them out of the pact
fell apart.

   Sen Carl Levin, D-Mich., who met with Clinton Wednesday, said the
White House is struggling to define when troops would withdraw.

   Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said a top White House official leaned over
and assured him, "Pat, it's like pornography. We'll know it when we see
it."
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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFEK2937 Date: 11/10/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 04:48pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 13 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

The International Criminal Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia indicted
three Serbian Army officers yesterday, the first handed down for officials
of Serbia and not the Bosnian Serbs. The officers are GEN Mile Mrksic, MAJ
Veselin Sljivancanin, and CAPT Miroslav Radic. They are being indicted on
charges related to the killing of 260 men in Vukovar, Croatia, after a
three month siege ended with its surrended Nov. 19, 1991. They were
officers of the Federal Yugoslav Army. Most of them are believed to be
buried in Ovcara. Mrksic, a colonel then, was sent from Belgrade to
command forces in Krajina last May. In August, he led the evacuation when
Croatia attacked.

The United States said yesterday that, in a "humanitarian gesture,"
natural gas will be allowed into Serbia for two months. The formal
decision by the U.N. sanctions committee was expected today or tomorrow.
(Roger Cohen/N.Y.T.)


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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFFH1585 Date: 11/11/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 01:26pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 11 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
signed an agreement on the Bosnian - Croat alliance yesterday at
Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Ohio. The agreement gives the federation
government extensive powers, including control of defense, justice,
customs, taxation, agriculture, health and internal affairs. The central
Bosnian Government would retain control of foreign policy, foreign trade,
air traffic control, immigration and citizenship, and monetary policy. The
institions of Herzeg-Bosna, the Croatian controlled area of Bosnia, will
be dissolved but four ministries in the federation - commerce, traffic and
communications, energy and industry, and education, science, and culture -
will be established in Mostar. Every fourth session of the weekly meeting
of the federation government will be in Mostar, the rest in Sarajevo. A
new customs system is to be set up by Dec. 10 and internal checkpoints
between Bosnian and Croatian areas will be removed. Beginning with the
1996 budget year, a proportion of the customs revenue will accrue to the
central budget of the Bosnian Government. The agreement also contains
steps to reunify Mostar. On military integration, the agreement only calls
for greater integration between commanders. "International assistance,",
likely U.S. assistance, will be sought for a "joint planning staff."

Even as the agreement was signed, though, Croatian troops and heavy
artillery were reported moving towards Eastern Slavonia.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck met with Bosnian Serbs in
Banja Luka yesterday on the issue of war crimes. He presented them with a
tentative list of 1,400 missing men and was assured they would be found.
(Roger Cohen and Kit R. Roane/N.Y.T.)

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFFH2258 Date: 11/11/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 01:37pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 11 times)
Subj: TOP N.A.T.O. CANDIDATE WITHDRAWN

The Netherlands yesterday angrily withdrew the nomination of former Dutch
Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers yesterday. Lubbers was the top candidate for
N.A.T.O. Secretary General.

The Netherlands said the withdrawl came after U.S. Secretary of State
Warren Christopher told them that the United States was not satisfied that
Lubbers was qualified to become the next Secretary General. In Berlin,
Lubbers said the withdrawl was become his candidacy had bcome "divisive."

The United States has now thrown its backing behind former Danish Foreign
Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, 54. He was interviewed in Washington, D.C.,
last weekend and will meet with the French Foreign Minister in Paris on
Monday. So far, though, he is only backed by Denmark, Iceland, and Norway.

France is reportedly questioning whether Ellemann-Jensen's French is
adequate for him to lead an organization where it is one of two official
languages. They are also displeased with Denmark because of its criticism
of France's resuming nuclear weapons testing.

Some French officials say they believe the real motive for the U.S.
rejection of Lubbers was that France, Germany, and the United Kingdom had
taken it for granted that the United States would agree with their choice.

It appears that the search for a new Secretary General is now back to
square one. (Craig R. Whitney/N.Y.T.)

10> Count on the Clinton administration to pick fights where nothing important
11> is at stake. This search is starting to look like one for a Clinton
12> cabinet appointment. And all it is accomplishing is further damage to NATO
13> ... 

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFGJ0054 Date: 11/12/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 03:00pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 9 times)
Subj: U.N. PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS UPDATE

As of Oct. 31, the United Nations had 58,763 personnel deployed in 16
countries. These included 54,935 troops, 2,193 military observers, and
1,635 civilian police officers. In all, 84 countries were contributing
troops, with France sending the most (7,485) and the United Kingdom next
(6,407), with Albania contribuing the least (one military observer in
Georgia).

The United States has 3,185 soldiers serving in U.N. operations. Most,
2,267 of them, are in Haiti; 494 are in Macedonia; and 361 are in Croatia.
Three are in Bosnia. Military observers are also in Jerusalem, the
Iraq/Kuwait border, Georgia, and the Western Sahara.

Operations in Haiti will end in February, the Angola operation sometime in
1996, and the Rwanda and former Yugoslavia operations are up in the air.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday voted to strengthen the mission in
Liberia, which will now consist of 160 military observers. Actual
peacekeeping there is handled by ECOMOG. (Christopher S. Wren/N.Y.T.)


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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFHK2198 Date: 11/13/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 04:36pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 0 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

Croatian Serbs yesterday signed an agreement drawn up at the talks at
Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Ohio, calling for them to turn over Eastern
Slavonia to Croatia during a one to two year period. An international
force is to be created to monitor the demilitarization and turnover. The
U.N. Security Council will be allowed to establish a transitional
government and send a force to monitor the area. The demilitarization, to
be completed not later than 30 days after the deployment of the
international force, will remove all forces except for police authorized
by the transitional government. People driven out will be allowed to
return, and people there now who were not originally from the area will be
allowed to stay. Anyone who lost property will be able to reclaim it or
receive compensation. 30 days before Croatia takes control, local
elections will be held. There is speculation that to get Serbia's backing
of the agreement, a committment to end sanctions against Serbia and
Montenegro was made. (Chris Hedges/N.Y.T.)

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFIM0524 Date: 11/14/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 06:08pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 2 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

The International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia indicted
yesterday six Bosnian Croats on charges of war crimes and crimes against
humanity. Because of the crimes, the six "have effectively destroyed or
removed almost the entire Muslim population in the Lasva Valley." Dario
Kordic and Tihofil Blaskic are charged with commanding troops that leveled
14 towns in the area and involvement in the 1993 massacre at Ahmici, in
which an estimated 120 people were killed and many homes destroyed by
fire. Blaskic is chief of staff of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) and
Kordic is chairman of the Croatian Democratic Union (HVD). Also charged
are: Mario Cerkez, an army commander; Ivan Santic, former mayor of Vitez;
Pero Skopljak, former chief of police in Vitez; and Zlatko Aleksovski, a
prison warden. Among other crimes for which they are charged are placing
more than 200 women and children around their headquarters as human
shields when attacked by the Bosnian Army, and shelling the main shopping
district of Zenica in April, 1993, killing at least 18 civilians. The
tribunal has now indicted 52 people in the former Yugoslavia. (Chris
Hedges/N.Y.T.)

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFJJ1261 Date: 11/15/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 03:21pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 1 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

Croatian President Franjo Tudjman yesterday promoted a man who was
indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia on Monday. GEN Tihomir Blaskic, the commander of the Bosnian
Croat militia, is now an inspector in the Croatian Army.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees yesterday said that it
expects to spend two years and up to $500 million overseeing the return
home of some three million people displaced in the fighting. The agency
said it knows that many moved in the "ethnic cleansing" would never go
back, and also said it is concerned about "ethnic engineering," or the
forced repopulation of newly conquered areas. (Reuters and Elaine
Sciolino/N.Y.T.)

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFKM1009 Date: 11/16/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 06:16pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 4 times)
Subj: MACEDONIA BECOMES P.F.P. MEMBER

Macedonia yesterday became the 27th member of the N.A.T.O. Partnership for
Peace program. (MIC, Fabian Schmidt, OMRI, Inc.)

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFKN0303 Date: 11/16/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 07:05pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 3 times)
Subj: OPERATION PROVIDE PROMISE UPDATE

Operation Provide Promise, the aid airbridge from Ancona, Italy, to
Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, temporarily stood down starting Nov. 5 while
warehouses were restocked.

The operation started in July, 1992, and was suspended for fi months
before restarting Sept. 16, 1995. Since the restart, Canada, France,
Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States have flown 423 sorties,
delivering 4,267 metric tons of food, medicine, and relief supplies. Based
on the World Food Program delivery schedule to warehouses, the stand down
should last three weeks. (DoD)


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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFLL0423
Date: 11/17/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                     
          Time: 05:07pm \/To: ALL                               
                 (Read 0 times) Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

The International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
said yesterday it has issued new indictments against Bosnian
Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian Serb military
leader GEN Ratko Mladic. They are charged with genocide in the
days after Bosnian Serbs invaded Srebrenica in July. The
indictment charges that the genocide was authorized by Karadzic
and carried out by Mladic's forces. A judge wrote, "thousands of
men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried
alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed
before their mothers' eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the
liver of his own grandson."

France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United
States protested on Wednesday the decision of Croatian President
Fanjo Tudjman to promote a military officer, GEN Tihomir
Blaskic, who has been indicted by the tribunal. Tudjman said
yesterday that he would cooperate with the tribunal, but did not
offer to recind the promotion. (Elaine Sciolino/N.Y.T.)





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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFMJ1906 Date: 11/18/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 03:31pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 10 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

The United Nations and the United States said yesterday that in violation
of his own pledges, the Yugoslav Army under Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic is rebuilding the Bosnian Serb military. Yugoslav Army personnel
have replaced communications links, repaired some air defenses, and have
been routinely sending aircraft with supplies to Banja Luka. A
confidential U.N. report of Oct. 30 states that obsevers have seen regular
flights into Banja Luka at night. Most of the cargo is not thought to be
large items, however. Yugoslav forces are also supplying parts and
maintenance to Bosnian Serb aircraft at Banja Luka. The Yugoslav aid to
the Bosnian Serbs is at a lower rate and smaller amount than before, but
continues nonetheless. One theory is that Milosevic is allowing some ties
between the two as a means of preserving credentials with is own forces
while he makes concessions in the peace talks. The U.N. also reported that
it put observers at the narrowest points of the Posavina Corridor on Nov.
7 and in three days saw large convoys of fuel trucks of likely Serbian
origin. The monitors were removed at the request of the Bosnian Serbs.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 243 to 171 last night to prevent
money from being spent to send U.S. personnel to Bosnia. The bill's
sponsor was Rep. Joel Hefley (R-Colo.). The bill prohibits use of DoD
funds to send ground forces or support any peacekeeping force, unless the
money is specifically approved by Congress. (Stephen Engelberg, Kit R.
Roane, and Tim Weiner/N.Y.T.)

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TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref: CFNP0187 Date: 11/19/95
From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)                                Time: 08:03pm
\/To: ALL                                                 (Read 10 times)
Subj: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

The Bosnian Government has given the United States a draft memorandum of
understanding that asks the United States to provide "on an urgent basis,
significant materiel, training and logistic support" to insure a balance
of forces as part of any peace agreement. The draft calls for the United
States to obtain of lifting of the arms embargo and then take steps to
deliver equipment.

Over a beer in a Holiday Inn yesterday near Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Ohio,
Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey announced his resignation. He
said the decision stemmed from the need to install a Croat in a top
government position to ensure the federation. Saying that the President
and Prime Minister won't go, he decided that he would. Privately, however,
people involved in the talks say that the relationship between Sacirbey
and Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic had been under strain, and that
Sacirbey felt "sidelined." In addition, Sacirbey was not pleased with the
United States focusing their efforts on Silajdzic (whom they see as the
key to persuading Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic) to persuade him
that the best way to secure Bosnia's future was through peace rather than
continuing war. (Roger Cohen/N.Y.T.)

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<Body Text>TODAY'S ISSUES==> TOPIC: MILITARY & ARMS      Ref:
CFRN3150 Date: 11/22/95 From: STEVE SCHULTZ (Leader)            
                   Time: 07:52pm \/To: ALL                      
                          (Read 7 times) Subj:
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA UPDATE

<Body Text>Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, Croatian
President Franjo Tudjman, and Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic agreed to make peace yesterday, initialling an
agreement and 11 annexes that will be formally signed in Paris
in mid-December.

<Body Text>While the agreement is a step in the process, much
remains to be decided. For example, can Bosnia survive as a
single state, what degree of self-government will Bosnian Serbs
have, and does Milosevic have the power and will to force
Bosnian Serbs into compliance?

<Body Text>In addition, the status of people indicted by the
International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
remains unresolved. The only provision in the agreement is that
those indicted may not run for office. Governments have pledged
to cooperate, but have not explicity said that indicted people
will be arrested and turned over.

<Body Text>Also to be worked out: the status of the Posavina
Corridor and Brcko, which will be decided by binding arbitration
over the next year.

<Body Text>The Bosnian Serbs who served in a delegation headed
by Milosevic failed to show up for the ceremony. They were
reportedly upset by an annex allowing N.A.T.O. to remove or
relocate specific forces and weapons from anywhere in Bosnia
whenever it views them as a threat. They also were angered over
the map of Sarajevo, in which Serb held neighborhoods are turned
over to the Bosnian Government.

<Body Text>The agreement calls for Bosnia to be preserved as a
single state, but in two parts: a Muslim-Croat federation and a
Serb republic. Sarajevo remains united, but some eastern suburbs
(notably Pale) remain under Serb control. The Bosnian Government
regains control of land linking Sarajevo and Gorazde. The
Bosnian-Croat federation gets 51 percent of the land and Serbs
49 percent.

<Body Text>Also called for is a central government with elected
group presidency and two house parliament, a court, a central
bank, the return or compensation of refugees, a commission to
investigate human rights violations, separation of troops, and
reconstruction of the country (under plans to be worked out by
European negotiators). Each sub-entity will have its own
presidents and legislatures.

<Body Text>Forces are to be withdrawn behind agreed to lines
within 30 days. All heavy weapons and forces will withdraw to
barracks areas within 120 days. All arms imports are temporarily
halted and negotiations will begin on limits for heavy weapons
and aircraft. Each government retains an army.

<Body Text>The U.N. Security Council is to suspend trade
sanctions on Serbia, in place for three and a half years. Other
sanctions (a ban on Serbian membership in the U.N. and access to
World Bank loans, for example) will remain until Serbs show a
compliance with the agreement. The arms embargo on the former
Yugoslavia will be gradually eased, beginning 90 days after the
agreement is signed.

<Body Text>A peacekeeping force under N.A.T.O. will monitor the
cease-fire and control the airspace. It will be "an active,
robust force capable not only of implementing a peace agreement
but also of defending itself vigorously." The force will have
60,000 troops from as many as 20 countries, 20,000 of them U.S.
personnel. The U.S. House of Representatives will hold hearings
next week and will send a delegation within the month.

<Body Text>Under current plans, troops from the 1st Armored
Division in Germany would head for the U.S. headquarters in
Tuzla about two weeks after the agreement is signed. First,
however, after approvals and before signing of the agreement in
Paris, 1,500 to 2,000 troops, including U.S. forces, will go
into the area to set up logistics and communications. Once in
the area, forces will have commissions made up of Muslim -
Croat, Bosnian Serb, and N.A.T.O. representatives.

<Body Text>The primary mission will be to oversee the withdrawl
of forces from a buffer zone about 2.5 miles wide. After at
least 30 days, the zone will be extended to five miles except in
Gorazde, Sarajevo, and Brcko (Posavina Corridor) which will have
special boundries. Secondary missions will include removing land
mines, providing security for relief agencies, delivering food
and medical supplies, and insuring safe passage.

<Body Text>United States involvement is planned to last about a
year and cost approximately $1.5 billion.

<Body Text>2,000 to 3,000 U.S. reservists will be called up,
particularily those in civil affairs, water
production/engineering, and medical fields.

<Body Text>French forces will be headquartered in Sarajevo and
the British will be in Gornji Vakuf. (Alison Mitchell, Eric
Schmitt and Elaine Sciolino/N.Y.T.)

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