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Tank-backed Serb troops move
in on Muslim enclave of Zepa
□ Once the city has
been seized, Serb
forces are expected to
attack Gorazde, an
other U.N. safe area*
SARAJEVO, Bosnla-Herze-
govina (AP) —- As the world
dithered Sunday over how to
protect U.N. "safe areas’’ in
Bosnia, a relentless Serb ar
tillery and tank assault pushed
the isolated Muslim enclave of
Zepa close to collapse.
Aid agencies, struggling to
cope with a mass of human mis
ery after the fall of the govern
ment-held pocket of Srebrenica,
prepared for the possibility of
thousands more refugees.
The Bosnian government,
furious at international inac
tion, charged that U.N. com
manders repeatedly stalled re
quests for NATO airstrikes
from Ukrainian peacekeepers
in Zepa. NATO jets buzzed
Zepa on Sunday afternoon, but
the U.N. officials said they did
not request airstrikes.
Similar requests from Dutch
peacekeepers in Srebrenica were
ignored last week until Tuesday,
when pinprick strikes on Serb
tanks failed to stop the capture
of the “safe area” hours later.
U.N. officials, speaking on
condition of anonymity, have
said commanders promised the
Serbs in early July that there
would be no more airstrikes. The
promise reportedly came a day
before the Serbs released the
last of more than 370 peacekeep
ers held as human shields by the
rebels in retaliation for NATO
airstrikes in late May.
Bosnian Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic, gloating
over the United Nations’ re
luctance to use force, served
notice that his forces intend to
conquer all the land between
Sarajevo and Serbia.
Once they seize Zepa ~ which
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O The U N. is struggling to teed at least 13.000
refugees that arrived in Tuzla after being expelled from
Srebrenica by Serb forces. Sanitation is poor and disease is feared
a Men and boys that were separated from the Srebrenica refugees were believed to have
been taken to Bratunac.
El Bosnian Serbs ordered government forces and civilians out of Zepa after positioning troops
for an attack. NATO jets flew over the town two hours after the ultimatum expired and Serbs
shelled three U.N. observation posts.
El Government troops surrounded a Ukrainian peacekeepers’ base near Gorazde, demanding
their weapons. Gorazde is likely to be the Bosnian Serbs’ next objective.
seems only a matter of time —
the Serbs are expected to turn
the full force of their guns on
Gorazde, the other U.N. "safe
area” in eastern Bosnia.
The Bosnian Minister re
sponsible for U.N, contacts,
Hasan Muratovic, claimed
that the Ukrainian comman
der in Zepa had requested
NATO airstrikes three times
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said they knew of no requests
for airstrikes.
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ple have died or are missing
since the Bosnian war started
in April 1992.
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Hearings on events at Branch Davidii
compound in Waco set for Wednesda
□ A fact sheet distributed by House
Republican leaders said that the raid
raised serious questions about reli
gious liberty and due process of law.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With potentially com
bustible hearings just ahead, the House Republi
can leadership distributed its fact sheet to rank-
and-file lawmakers concerning what it terms the
“tragedy in Waco.”
Designed to help Republicans field questions
from reporters and thus shape public opinion
about the hearings, it notes that most of the
dozens who perished at the Branch Davidian com
pound, many of them women and children, “were
not suspected of any criminal wrongdoing.”
Questions about “excessive use of force, milita
rization of law enforcement and due process of law
must be analyzed,” the material says. “The raid
also raised serious questions about religious liber
ty in this nation.”
Investigating the events at Waco “without in
vestigating the extreme activities of some mili
tias seems to suggest that law enforcement agen
cies are the real threat to the safety of American
citizens,” Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
wrote journalists recently.
The 1993 events in Texas must be viewed in
the context of the April 19 bombing at Oklahoma
City, with its connections to anti-government
militia groups, he said.
The NRA has been critical of the Bureau of Al
cohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the agency he;
involved in the siege against Koresh.
Four ATF agents and six Branch David;
were killed when the ATF initiated a raid ag;
the Waco compound Feb. 28, 1993.
Seven weeks later, an additional 81 David
including Koresh, died in a fire that raced thn
the compound after the FBI tried to force ou!
compound’s occupants with tear gas. The gov
ment maintains the fire was set by those insid
The hearings are to begin Wednesday. Tbi.
of witnesses runs from Henry
McMahon, a firearms dealer
who sold to Koresh, to Attor
ney General Janet Reno, who
approved the raid and is slat
ed to appear on the eighth
and final day.
Republicans hint at disturb
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nal the government assembled
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least one Abrams battle tank.
The military provided
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“That’s not our position to approve. Wed,
few consultants who reviewed their plans'
gave them recommendations on how to bes-
the equipment that was made available,” he^
on ABC’s “This Week With David Brinkley."
Hussein frees Americans from prise
□ Saddam Hussein or
dered the release of the
two men after a plea by
a U.S. congressman.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) —
Four months after they strayed
across the border into Iraq, two
Americans celebrated their re
lease from a maximum-security
prison Sunday with pizza and
champagne and prepared for
the long road home.
President Saddam Hussein
freed William Barloon and David
Daliberti after a personal plea
by a U.S. congressman, who
asked that they be released on
humanitarian grounds.
The men were expected to
leave Iraq early Monday for the
Jordanian capital Amman, a 10-
hour trip by desert road. Air
links to and from Iraq have been
restricted by U.N. sanctions.
Saddam ordered the Ameri
cans released after a meeting
Sunday with Rep. Bill Richard
son, D-N.M.
The state-run Iraqi News
Agency said Richardson con
veyed an appeal from “President
Clinton, the U.S. Congress and
the American people,” but Secre
tary of State Warren Christo
pher stressed that Richardson
went as a Congressman, not as a
presidential envoy.
The release followed a U.N.
Security Council decision last
week to extend trade sanctions
^against Iraq for another 60 days.
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with the sanctions biting
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ton, Iowa, and Daliberti,
Jacksonville, Fla., were-
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said they strayed across,
border by accident while
ing friends at a U.N. post
Iraqi officials suggested.
Barloon and Dalibertir
spies. Washington denied!!;
On March 25, the men"
sentenced to eight years’
prison and committedt
maximum-security AbuGt
prison west of Baghdad.
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*** Parking Update ***
July 17,1995
PA 88 - Base repairs have been completed. Resurfacing is
scheduled to begin Monday, July 17, 1995. The lot will remain
closed 3-4 days to allow the new surface to cure properly. We
project that the lot will be painted the weekend of July 22nd.
PA 88 is scheduled to open Sunday, July 23.
PA 50 - Base repairs have been completed. Resurfacing is sched
uled to begin on Tuesday, July 18th and be completed by Friday,
July 21st. The lot will reopen on Saturday, July 22 until July 29,
when it will close for repainting. Parking will be allowed in PA
50 after resurfacing, but prior to repainting.
Student parking will be allowed on the Bonfire field during resur
facing. Other suggested areas are PA 89 behind the tennis courts,
PA 48, PA 62, PA 95, or PA 96.
The lot is scheduled to open on Monday, July 31st.
The Department of Parking and Transportation Services
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