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The Battalion
Friday, September 18,l! I
Serb forces launch
offensive one day
before peace talks
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov-
ina — Bosnian troops were
rushed to western suburbs Thurs
day as the Serbs opened a new of
fensive that the U.N. commander
characterized as an attempt to
grab territory before peace talks
open Friday.
Sarajevo radio said Thursday
night the Serbs used more than 20
tanks and armored personnel car
riers in the drive, but claimed it
was halted by Bosnian govern
ment forces in the district of Stup
outside the capital. It cited the
Bosnian armed forces headquar
ters as its source.
No independent confirmation
was possible.
Bosnia's increasingly isolated
government rejected a Serb pro
posal to use the talks to start di
viding the republic into ethnic re
gions.
Forces of the Muslim-led gov
ernment poured into Stup and
Azici after Serb rebels launched a
fierce attack with tank guns, ar
tillery and mortars on the western
neighborhoods. The government
forces had been pushed back into
that area in recent fighting.
Gen. Hussein Aly Abdel Razek,
the Egyptian commander of U.N.
forces in Bosnia, said the battles
appeared to be an attempt to lay
territorial claims.
"They are going to the Geneva
talks, and they are going with
some cards in their pockets," he
said.
Although the fighting was esca
lating, he said it was a "war of at
trition" and that neither side had
much chance of winning.
Bosnian government defense
headquarters were deserted be
cause all available officers and
troops rushed to reinforce the
Stup and Azici fronts, where the
fighting sent columns of thick
black smoke into the sky.
Although the battles were vir
tually next-door to the airport,
Abdel Razek announced that a
U.N. relief plane would fly into
Sarajevo as a test, and if it went
well, aid flights to the capital
could resume next week. He set
no date for the flight.
Humanitarian flights were halt
ed on Sept. 3 when an Italian
plane crashed on an aid mission.
The Italian government has said
in a preliminary report that the
plane was hit by a heat-seeking
missile, but it did not say which
side launched the rocket.
Abdel Razek said U.N. moni
tors counted 420 rounds of
shelling on Thursday — all from
the Serb side — between 7 a.m.
and 4 p.m.
Other U.N. officers interviewed
near Sarajevo said they had 11
Serb positions under observation
and four government positions,
and that the combat was intense.
The spoke on condition of
anonymity.
The Bosnian government said
Thursday that casualties in the
previous 24 hours had been 31
dead and 198 wounded in the re
public, including 10 dead and 60
wounded in Sarajevo.
Fighting has claimed at least
10,000 lives since February, when
the republic's Muslims and Croats
voted for independence from Yu
goslavia. Serbs, who make up
one-third of the population, boy
cotted the February referendum.
With the backing of Serbia, the
dominant force in the truncated
Yugoslav federation, they started
an armed rebellion that has cap
tured two-thirds of Bosnian terri
tory in six months of brutal war
fare.
So far, neither peace talks nor
intense diplomatic and economic
pressure on Serbia has succeeded
in bringing the warring factions to
heel.
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Fischer wins third
consecutive game
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SVETI STEFAN, Yugoslavia
— Bobby Fischer pounced on
yet another error by Boris
Spassky on Wednesday to win
a third consecutive game and
take a 4-2 lead in their $5 mil
lion chess rematch.
Spassky, playing black, re
signed on his 21st move in the
shortest game of the series so
far.
American grandmaster Yas-
sor Sairawan said a "horrible
blunder’’ cost Spassky the
game.
soon as our contractual ot
tions permit it.”
Norway, Mexico and Eng-
land are oil-producing nationsf
outside of OPEC, Duran-Bate|
said at a news conference.!
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Barreiro had said Thursday
at the oil ministers meeting that
Ecuador would not decide i
November whether to remain a
full member.
Committee calls for
ethics investigation
the associated press
Europeans wrestle
financial problems
the associated press
LONDON — The currency
crisis that pitched Europe into
political and monetary turmoil
widened Thursday, but central
banks managed to keep order
even as financial markets
swung wildly.
Among Thursday's currency
developments:
•Spain's peseta was deval
ued by 5 percent.
•Central banks bought
French francs, Irish pounds and
the Danish krone to support
them against the mark.
•Sweden announced it would
maintain its astonishing 500
percent interest rate at least
through Monday, to protect the
krona from sell-offs by specula
tors.
•Greece raised its overnight
interbank lending rate to 35 per
cent from 28 percent to defend
the drachma.
WASHINGTON — A mem
ber of the House Select Intel-
qence Committee is calling fo
an ethics investigation of Rep
Nenry B. Gonzalez, who has
been releasing classified infos-
mation in speeches on the
House floor.
The action pits two Texas
congressmen against each olh-
er. .. _
Republican Rep. Larry
Combest Thursday introduceda
resolution requesting that the
House ethics committee invest
qate Gonzalez, a Democrat, for
releasing information on the
0 U $h administration's pre-war
relationship with Iraq.
Congress votes to
regulate cable TV
THE associated press
Ecuador considers
plan to leave OPEC
WASHINGTON - The
House responded Thursday to
consumer complaints about es
calating cable television rates
and indifferent service by voting
to put the industry under gov
ernment control.
Rep. Edward Markey, D-
Mass., sponsor of the bill that
passed 280-128, called it the
most important consumer legis
lation Congress would face this
year. President Bush said he
vvould veto it because it "wi
hurt Americans by imposing a
wide array of costly, burden
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ments on the cable industry.'
QUITO, Ecuador — Presi
dent Sixto Duran-Ballen an
nounced Thursday night that
Ecuador had decided to be
come the first country to with
draw from the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Energy Minister Andres Bar
reiro Vivas, currently at an
OPEC meeting in Geneva, has
been instructed to deliver a let
ter to the OPEC leadership “in
forming them that we are leav
ing the organization but will re
main as associates,” Duran-
Ballen said.
Barreiro said earlier Thurs
day that Ecuador might be
forced to leave OPEC because
of the annual $2 million mem
bership fee it must pay and the
cartel’s refusal to raise
Ecuador’s production quota
from the current 320,000 bar
rels per day.
Barreiro said those condi
tions were hurting the struggling
Ecuadoran economy.
Of the 13 nations in the three
decades-old cartel, only Gabon
produces less oil than Ecuador.
Duran-Ballen said Ecuador’s
withdrawal would take place “as
The measure now goes to
the Senate, which was expect
ed to act on it next week.
The cable industry hasag'
gressively opposed the bill sup
ported by such groups as the
Consumer Federation of Ameri
ca, the AFL-CI0 and the Ameri
can Association of Retired Per- s
sons.
Key to the measure is Feder
al Communications Commis
sion regulation of basic cable
service which would consist of
cable-delivered local broadcast
affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC
Fox and PBS and public, edu
cational and government cable
channels, but not C-SPAN.
The commission also would:
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•Set service standards to
protect against chronic outages.
•Guarantee that customers
get quick telephone response tc
questions about billing, refunds
and service problems.
•Streamline its system tot
handling consumer complaints.
•Step in if cable charges for
additional programming be
came exorbitant, U
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