NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 29, 1994
Serbs attack Bosnian 'safe zones'
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Combat reported in Bihac stronghold
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rebel Serbs were reported in hand-to-hand combat yesterday with defenders of the last government stronghold in northwest Bosnia. Western diplomats, stung by the United Nations' inability to save the "safe zone," scramble to broker a cease-fire.
There was little sign that Bosnia's Serbs would agree to one except on their terms. they have seized up to 40 percent of the safe zone in the Bihac enclave that was declared off-limits to combat by the United Nations and seemed intent on forcing the government surrenders there to surrender.
In Bihac, Serb forces were 250 to 500 yards from the town's center and moving house to house, Mayor Hamadia Kabilagi reported.
The Serbs' war gains have created a crisis for the international community. Three NATO airstrikes on Serb positions last week were ineffective, and more than 400 U.N. peacekeeping troops have been detained by the Serbs to ward off many attacks.
The Serbs launched the war 21/2 years ago when they rebelled against a move by Bosnia's Croats and Muslims to secede from Yugoslavia.
U. N. officials have been pressing the Muslim-led government to accept a peace settlement offered by the Serbs on condition they keep the 70 percent of Bosnia they now hold.
U. N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali will visit Sarajevo tomorrow and plans to meet with Bosnian President Aljza Izetbegovic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
The Bosnian Serbs have rejected a contact group peace plan that would give them 49 percent of Bosnia instead of the 70 percent they hold. The government has accepted the plan.
The commander of the government's 5th Corps in Bihac, Gen. Atis Dudakovic, reported 114 government
soldiers were killed or wounded yesterday in the 32-square-mile Bihac area. Dudakovic said there were 96 casualties Sunday. No Serb numbers were made available.
Dr. Bekir Tatic of the Bihac hospital said that the staff had run out of bandages and plasma to treat the injured, who included 64 children. He said that bandages were being washed out and re-used, and that victims packed the floor because of a shortage of hospital beds.
British Defense Secretary Malcolm Riffind said yesterday it was disgraceful for U.S. senators to blame Britain for the debacle in Bosnia. He faulted America for contributing no soldiers to the U.N. peacekeeping force.
"It ill-becomes people in countries who have not provided a single soldier on the ground to make that kind of criticism," Rifkind said.
Dole said yesterday that the British and French were to blame for "a complete breakdown" of NATO's mission in Bosnia.
GATT loses two votes, is expected to pass
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton assembled the economic stars from eight previous administrations yesterday to give a final push for congressional approval of a 124-nation trade agreement.
Supporters predicted that the rewrite of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade would sail through the House today with perhaps as many as 60 votes to spare.
However, they suffered two setbacks in the Senate yesterday with the announcements that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Sen. Hank Brown, R-Colo., would oppose the agreement.
Baucus had voted for the pact when it cleared the Senate Finance Committee in October. He said he had
switched because of growing concern that the World Trade Organization was a threat to U.S. sovereignty.
Even before the announcements by Brown and Baucus, the fate of the trade deal was less certain in the 100-member Senate, where it must win 60 votes on a procedural question of waiving the Senate's budget rules.
However, administration officials expressed confidence they could still prevail.
The 22,000-page agreement slashes tariffs by an average of 38 percent worldwide and expands the rules of world trade into new areas such as agriculture, services and the protection of copyrights and patents. It creates a more powerful World Trade Organization to referee trade disputes and eliminates the power of any one country to block an adverse trade
ruling.
U. S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor refused to disclose the administration's current vote count in the Senate, but he said that a deal reached last week to meet concerns of Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole about the WTO had brought a number of Republicans on board.
The administration, which next year will be forced to work with a Congress controlled by Republicans for the first time in 40 years, was calling the GATT vote the first test of whether the two parties can work together.
Clinton said the trade deal would add hundreds of U.S. jobs, boost the average American family's income and provide the biggest global tax cut in history.
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