Wednesday, April 28, 1993
NATION/WORLD
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Serbs scorn western sanctions
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rebel Serbum thrashed their noses yesterday at new sanctions meant to break their resolve, pounding one Bosnian Muslim enclave with gunfire and challenging United Nations peacekeeping troops in another.
U. N. officials said the muslim-dominated Bihac region in northwestern Bosnia was under Serb artillery attack, and an infantry company backed by 10 tanks had moved into the area from a Serb-held sector of Croatia.
The offensive and the defiance of U.N. authority in Srebrenica, another
Muslim enclave, were the latest signs of Serb refusal to bend to tougher sanctions against Serb-dominated Yugoslavia that went into effect yesterday.
Threats of foreign military intervention against the Bosnian Serbs heated up yesterday when Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a warning to Serbs and pledged unity with the West, defying his hard-line critics. Past Russian support of the Serbs has added to Western reluctance to turn the sanction screws too harshly.
"The time has come for decisive measures to stifle the conflict," Yeltsin said in Moscow.
At the Pentagon, Adm. David
Jeremiah, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke of the difficulties of using force to end the conflict, in particular the use of limited air strikes.
"Hitting tanks spread out against the desert is one thing. Hitting artillery pieces hidden near barns, schools and civic centers is another," he said.
Fighting in the Bihac pocket, which is home to about 270,000 residents and refugees, appeared more a show of defiance than the beginning of another land grab in war that has left 134,000 people dead or missing.
"The force is certainly not one that would be expected to take the Bhacp pocket," said Gen. Lars Eric
Walgren, commander of U.N. peace-keeping troops in Yugoslavia and its former republics, of the 100-150 troops backed by tanks.
The Bosnian Serb army later issued a statement dissociating itself from provocative attacks by what it called an unorganized group of people.
Signaling new U.N. resolve,
Wahlghe told reporters in Belgrade
he had ordered Peacekeeping
troops to bloc the area to answer
with force.
By yesterday afternoon, however, Serbs had captured three villages 25 miles north of Bihac, said a U.N. official in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
BRIEFS
Clinton responds to criticism about economic program
WASHINGTON — President Clinton struggled yesterday to revive his stalled legislative agenda and overcome problems made embarrassingly clear in a candid assessment by his budget director.
Lean Panetta said Monday that his boss' economic program and proposed aid to Russia were facing uphill battles in Congress and that support was lacking to approve the free-trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
Panetta also suggested that Clinton delay releasing his health-care plan
because of problems the president's separate budget package was having in Congress.
in Congress:
Administration officials scrambled to move past the story, insisting Clinton still expected to secure aid to Russia, a modified free-trade pact and a timely health-care plan.
Communications director George Stephanopoulos said Panetta had not talked to Clinton but was greeted warmly at the senior staff meeting yesterday afternoon.
NBC chooses unknown as 'Late Night' success
NEW YORK — NBC turned to a virtual unknown with practically no on-air experience to replace David Lenterman after Garry Shandling — a proven TV star — turned down a reported $20 million-plus.
NBC went with Conan O'Brien, a 30-year-old writer and comedian, as the new "Late Night" host.
"Nobody knows this guy, nobody's seen him, and I thought you might want to say hello, "Jay Leno told his 'Tonight' show audience Monday.
The new show will be developed by "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels.
One source said Shandling was the first approached for the job but turned down a multi-year deal worth more than $20 million because he would have had to have the program ready by August and felt that was not enough time.
Briefs compiled from Associated Press reports.
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