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It was not an accident," said the U.N. com mander, Col. Roger Duburg of France, who blamed the attack on ethnic Serb forces. Many other attempts to halt or control Bosnia's ethnic civil war have failed. Earlier Sunday, shelling sub sided around Sarajevo's outskirts. But all three sides quickly claimed their foes in other parts of Bosnia had broken the accord, which seeks to halt shelling of civilian areas and attacks aimed at gaining territory. But it said iso lated small arms fire would not be treated as violations. Cmdr. Barry Frewer, a spokesman for U.N. peacekeep ers, said Serb troops bombarded FALL CO OP STUDENTS TODAY (Before 5:00 p.m) Come to the Co-op Office to register for Fall Co-op course, (ityou TONIGHT July 26, 1993 have not already registered.) MEETING (You will be blocked for not attending) Zachry Engineering Center Room 102 5:30 p.m. western parts of the city Saturday and launched an infantry attack on Zuc, a mountain northwest of the city center. More than 3,000 rounds of artillery, tank and mor tar fire were recorded. Serb rebels punched through Bosnian government lines on Zuc before being turned back in very heavy fighting, Frewer said. There was no immediate word on casu alties. A Serb breakthrough on Zuc would enable Serbs to link up with their positions south of the city, cutting Sarajevo in two and giving Serbs control of the capi tal's western end. Shells also fell Saturday on Mount Igman, another key posi tion in the Muslim-dominated government's defense of Sarajevo, and heavy gunfire was exchanged in the suburbs surrounding the airport, Frewer said. Bosnia's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic, has said he will attend peace talks scheduled to start Tues day in Geneva if the accord holds. The talks have been postponed twice because of fighting. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told The Associated Press on Saturday that Izetbe govic must accept the partition of Bosnia into three ethnic states or Serb forces would settle the question on the battlefield. Serbs control about 70 percent of Bosnia, and Croats hold much of the rest. Bosnian radio accused Serbs of violating the new accord, which took effect at 10 a.m. Sunday (4 a.m. EDT), with shelling of gov ernment positions on Zuc. Low- level, sporadic shelling could be heard in the city coming from the hills ringing it, but the city was otherwise quiet. Bosnian Serb commanders in the eastern town of Bratunac ac cused government forces of breaking the agreement by trying to infiltrate small groups of sol diers into the Muslim enclave of Zepa, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said. 3321 S. Texas Ave. Bryan 2501 Texas Ave. S. College Station /////nr The Battalion Monday, July 26,1993 Tubes-iHE lost year By Boomer Cardinale a THE SERIES** ©I'm 5>M5TTlft<JD By Paul Stroud Death oar of the FAMILY: PART l, 5PENCE HALt- START TALklMGj IT'S YouR QUAdTEtf. NO, X HAVEN'T REM) HE Aggie Man By Sergio Rosas Israelis bomb Arabs after border dispute Rubles flood market after bank notes invalidated THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — People rushed to unload their soon-to-be worthless rubles Sunday, hut one former So viet state and a Russian region said they would ignore the sur prise plan to invalidate billions of old banknotes. Starting at midnight, only ban knotes printed this year will be valid. Russians will have two weeks to exchange old bills for new, but they will be limited to getting 35,000 rubles ($35) in cash. Any amount above that will be credited to a savings account that cannot be touched for six months. The Central Bank's politically explosive step is aimed at cooling inflation — now running about 2,500 percent a year — by forcing cash off the streets and combating counterfeiting. It also will liquidate up to 20 percent of the ruble supply, which is outside Russia's control in other former Soviet republics. Armenia and Russia's rebellious Chechenya said they would defy the measure. But most average Russians are bearing the burden. Most rely en tirely on cash and have avoided putting money in banks because interest rates have rarely kept up with inflation during Russia's painful shift to a market economy. "In any other country, that would have caused a revolution within one day," one elderly man told his wife while waiting out side a store Sunday. Banks were closed and shoppers lined up to try to unload old rubles at stores on a day when business usually is slow. People crowded into subway stations to buy month ly passes with old rubles. Private street vendors hung signs in their kiosks saying they would take old rubles at a 10 per cent surcharge, meaning a pair of Chinese tennis shoes at one kiosk cost 10,000 new rubles but 11,000 old rubles. In St. Petersburg, most stores were shuttered and most kiosk owners were refusing all rubles printed before 1993. An instant black market trade in rubles sprang up. In the Far Eastern region of Birobidzhan, private money traders were pay ing 2,500 to 3,000 new rubles for 5,000 old rubles, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The measure "is placing guilt on the whole population for the drawbacks of the government pol icy," said Grigory Yavlinsky, a radical economist and former ad viser to President Boris Yeltsin. THE ASSOCI ATED PRESS MASHGARA, Lebanon — In the heaviest Israeli attack on Lebanon since its 1982 invasion, warplanes battered guerrilla tar gets Sunday and Arabs respond ed with rocket barrages in clash es that took lives on both sides of the border. By nightfall, Lebanese sur vivors dug through rubble from attack sites from south Lebanon to near Beirut and Israeli officials planned evacuations from north ern areas. In Washington and other capi tals, officials denounced the growing Arab-Israeli violence, which has seriously strained the Middle East peace process. Nearly 12 hour of Israeli air strikes left at least eight Lebanese and six Syrian soldiers dead. At least 28 people were wounded, police sources said. The warplanes reportedly drew fire from Lebanese and Syri an troops, but no casualties were reported. Syria is the major power broker in Lebanon and has about 40,000 troops in the nation. Guerrillas retaliated by firing more than 50 Katyusha rockets at Israeli positions in southern Lebanon and settlements in northern Israel. At least five Is raelis were killed and many more injured when a rocket hit an apartment building in the north ern town of Qiryat Shimona, Is rael's army said. Mayors in northern Israeli towns laid plans to evacuate all children, elderly and handi capped. The military urged every one in that region to spend the night in shelters. The combat stepped up fight ing that has been building since pro-Iranian and Syrian-backed guerrillas opposed to the peace talks escalated attacks on an Is raeli-occupied buffer zone in southern Lebanon. The Secretary of State Warren Christopher is scheduled to visit the region beginning Saturday in an attempt to revive the stalled peace talks. In Singapore for a meeting of Asian foreign ministers, Christo pher urged restraint on the only active Arab-Israeli war front. "It's clearly counterproductive as far as the peace talks are con cerned," he said, referring to re cent attacks by both sides. The Arab League condemned Israel and also warned it was jeopardizing the talks. Lebanon's president, Elias Hrawi, summoned government and defense leaders for crisis talks and said Lebanon would lodge a complaint with the U.N. Security Council against "the Is raeli aggression." It was the first time this year that the Israeli air force used fighter-bombers to strike guerrilla bases. Helicopter gunships staged 20 earlier strikes this year. 4 What's Up Monday Floriculture Horticulture Society: is having a work party: any one interested in plants is welcome. It is to be held at the Hensel Greenhouse (next to the KAMU transmitter off Hensel Dr.) at 5pm. For more information call Sam at 693-8790. TAMU Roadrunners: all interested in group running (no matter what pace) are invited to meet in front of G. Rollie White at 7:15pm to run every Monday-Thursday. If you have any questions call Steve at 823-1334. The Career Center: is holding a Placement Orientation at 2:30pm in 106 Blocker. For more information please contact the Ca reer Center at 845-5139. Tuesday The Career Center: is welcoming all to a Job Search Strategies informational meeting at 3:30pm in 106 Blocker. For details call the Career Center cit 845-5139. What's Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Items for What's Up should be submitted no later than three days before the desired run date. Application deadlines and notices are not events and will not run in What's Up. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3313. Vol.92 No Isr, THE ASS NABATP uel hamme: holds with i and artiller Monday as c of the bordei Israeli fightir At least 3! ( d killed ar loth sides of Most of tl Lebanon, w POO villa^ luring lulls led north. A huddled in l a second da\ northern Isr las; thousa from the bor Leslie Be blocks a Sena may local callii B yj. fra