UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, February 28. 1996
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Yugoslavia lifts sanctions
The Associated Press
PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serb-dominated Yugoslavia lifted sanctions against Bosnian Serbs yesterday as a reward for accepting peace. The United Nations was expected to follow suit.
The move, announced by Tanjug, the Yugoslavian news agency, was meant to ease tensions between the Bosnian Serbs and President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Yugoslavia's most powerful politician.
Imposed at Milosevic's command 18 months ago, the sanctions marked a formal end to Serb-dominated Yugoslavia's support of the Bosnian Serb war effort.
Milosevic turned against the war to
get U.N. sanctions against his own country lifted.
The U.N. sanctions on Yugoslavia were lifted in November, after Milosevic initialed the Bosnian peace plan. But all U.N. members except Russia kept their sanctions on Bosnian Serbs in place. Moscow lifted them last week.
Bosnian Serbs welcomed Yugoslavia's move. Anticipating a similar response from the United Nations, they praised the world organization even before it announced a formal decision.
Nikola Kojlevic, the No. 2 man in the Bosnian Serb hierarchy, said a suspension of U.N. sanctions was important for the strengthening of peace.
Koljevic has been one of the main contacts for international organizations ordered to shun Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic because he has been indicted on war crimes charges.
NATO troops are supposed to arrest him and other indicted suspects if they encounter them.
But international mediators and Bosnian politicians gathered in Banja Luka's city hall yesterday at the same time Karadzic was in the building, and heavily armed British troops from the NATO-led peace force even sealed the building as a security measure for the meeting. They appeared unaware of Karadzic's presence.
An end to the sanctions was
delayed after the Bosnian Serbs began boycotting the NATO-led Bosnian peace force and other international organizations several weeks ago to protest the arrests of two Bosnian Serb officers on suspicion of war crimes. NATO officials say ties have been restored.
Tensions in Sarajevo remained high yesterday, with Serbs continuing to leave suburbs they held during the war rather than submit to the authority of their wartime foes.
Brig. Gen. Andrew Cumming, a senior NATO spokesman, said any new defiance would lead to the resumption of sanctions.
Thousands of Serbs have fled during the past week, partly because of fear of reprisals.
THE NEWS in brief
Woman shoots herself in foot in attempt to remove callus
The Associated Press
MUNCIE, Ind. — A woman used a shotgun to try to remove a callus from her foot after a bout of drinking. Bonnie Booth, 38, was listed in good condition yesterday, a day after firing a .410-gauge gun, which uses the smallest size shell available, in
She was taken to Ball Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
her backyard.
No immediate charges were filed, and the extent of her injuries was not disclosed.
"she told investigators she drank a gallon of vodka and two or three
beers, and tried to shoot the callus off her foot," police captain Baird Davis said.
"She told officers she had already tried to cut off the callus with a razor, and it didn't work," Davis said.
Davis said Booth had become afraid her foot was getting infected.
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