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Tuesday, March 29, 1994
Leaders meet to end Bosnian War
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — With the guns around Srajevo silenced, Muslim and Croat leaders met yesterday to begin building a federation viewed as a key step toward ending Bosnia's 2-year-old war.
Despite some initial confusion, both sides appeared confident a joint assembly would approve a draft constitution and agree on an interim government to rule until elections within six months.
"Now is not the time for euphoria, nor for pessimism, but for serious, determined and intensive work on the implementation of the agreement," Haris Silajdzic, prime minister of Bosnia's Muslim-limged government, said in opening remarks. The accord was signed March 18 in Washington. No formal action was expected before today because some delegates were delayed by transportation problems.
The federation plan has been shumed by Bosnian Serbs, who are considered by most of the world to be the main
aggressors in Bosnia's war, but the accord already has done much to bring peace.
After a year of bitter fighting in central and southwestern Bosnia, Muslim and Croat guns have been mostly quiet since a cease-fire Feb. 25. The two sides also have agreed to merge their armies.
"The airdrop made a big difference," she said at a ceremony honoring the air crews at the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Force base in Frankfurt, Germany. "They maintained the lifeline."
Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said the airdrops prevented mass starvation the past two winters and could be re-started if necessary.
The relative peace has made life so much easier for U.N. humanitarian convoyts that aid officials said yesterday they were suspending airdrops to isolated regions. Over the past 18 months, U.S., German and French planes parachuted 17,561 tons of food, medicine and winter clothing into Bosnia.
Shootout on eve of pullout kills six in Gaza
The Associated Press
HEBRUN, Occupied West Bank — Israeli troops killed six Palestinian gunmen in the occupied Gaza Strip on Monday. Israel television meanwhile reported the army will be ready to pull out of Gaza by April 14.
The shootout between the Palestinians and the soldiers took place in the Jabaliya refuge camp north of Gaza City and marked the highest number killed in a day since Feb. 25, when the Hebron mosque massacre and subsequent unrest left 42 Arabs dead.
Palestinian reports said at least four of the dead belonged to the Fatah Hawks, the military wing of the Yasser Arafat's mainstream PLO organization. The other two dead were not immediately identified.
The report of the pullout preparations coincided with comments made by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres who said Monday that an autonomy agreement could be wrapped up by mid-April and be followed by a speedy troop pullout from Gaza and Jericho.
On the eve of resuming talks with the PLO, a senior army official said the military has already moved out much of its equipment from the soonto-be-autonomous areas, and that it would only take a few days to complete the pullout.
Military officials told Israel television it would be completed in two weeks.
The army has dismantled several bases and moved equipment out of Gaza, although there has been no reduction in troop deployment.
"Almost everything is finished," said a senior army official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"If the government says it (the pull-out) will take one week, it will take one week. If it says it should take one day, it will take one day," he told The Associated Press.
South Korea had plans to develop bomb
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea —South Korea planned to develop atomic bombs as late as 1991 but was forced to give up under U.S. pressure, an official said yesterday.
The remarks by Rep. Suh Sujong, chief policy analyst of the Democratic Liberal Party, came amid a crisis over North Korea's nuclear program and illustrated the longstanding potential for a nuclear arms race on the divided Korean Peninsula.
South Korean and North Korean troops have been on alert since last week after the North refused to let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency view a facility suspected of being used to produce plutonium, which can be used to make nuclear weapons.
South Korea and the United States have demanded that North Korea's nuclear sites be open to full inspections.
The North says its seven nuclear sites are for peaceful purposes. It has accused the United States of pushing the Korean Peninsula towards war.
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