European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 15, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3warring serbs and croats endorse Demacek Leoina Force mediator says Belgrade Yugoslavia a the european Community a chief mediator in Yugoslavia s civil War said thursday that the warring parties have agreed in principle to allow an International peacekeeping Force. The dec mediator lord Carrington did not indicate who might participate in the Force and urged the United nations to Send an envoy. Outgunned and steadily losing ground on the Battlefield Croatia says it is now willing to allow the peacekeeping troops inside the secessionist Republic if the serbian led Federal army withdraws. Croatian president Franjo Tadjman at first opposed any peacekeepers within croatian territory because that could mean the eventual loss to Serbia of the one a third of Croatia that serbian forces have seized. The toll of Avi months of Battle May have changed his mind. About 2,000 people have been killed since Croatia declared Independence june 25 in fighting that 12 dec brokered cease fires have been unable to halt. The 12-nation dec last week imposed sanctions to turn up the pressure. Tadjman said wednesday night that he had told Carrington during a meeting in Graz Austria earlier in the Quot Day that peacekeepers Quot could play a positive role Quot if the Federal army also withdraws from Croatia. Quot peace keeping forces would be the guarantee that we will respect minority cultural and ethnic rights even local self government Quot in places dominated by the serb minority Tadjman said. Sources in Belgrade said a plan under discussion Calls for peacekeepers to be deployed in serbian enclaves in Croatia As the Federal army a which has sided with serb irregulars a withdraws from the Republic. Later the 600,000 serbs in Croatia could vote on which Republic they want to join or form autonomous units sources in Belgrade said. Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic claims the serbs in Croatia would face persecution if they were forced to live in an Independent Croatia. Croatia claims Milosevic uses that argument to mask his desire to absorb Large chunks of Croatia into a Quot greater  on the War front the Federal army closed in on the besieged croatian port of Dubrovnik and Street to Streel fighting was reported in the Eastern croatian stronghold of Vukovan. Serbian dominated forces appeared close to Victory Over croatian defenders who have been under siege in Vukovan a Danube River town for three months. Associated press photographer Dusan Vranic was wounded in the left Arm and hip thursday while covering the fighting there a Reuters reporter said. Fighting raged throughout the night. A croatian defense official in the City said in a Telephone interview that shells were falling a every minute All Over the  he said that Street fights continued thursday but that City defenders had not budged from their positions. The defense official said patients in the cellar of the heavily damaged Hospital had begun dying of infections because the Hospital was running out of Basic medicines. In Dubrovnik a local truce held for a second  up Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin wears the same on wednesday. Despite earlier protests the scowl that had greeted admirers in Only a few people were present when Len East Berlin for 21 years As his head is in a head was lifted off his shoulders slowly lifted off a huge memorial statue with a Crane and loaded onto a truck. Bulgarian Leader seeks closer ties with nato Brussels Belgium a bulgarian president Zhc Liu Zhelev on thursday welcomed natos efforts to forge closer ties with its former adversaries and said his country wants one Day to join the Alliance. A your nation has pinned its great Hopes for Security peace and Prosperity on its growing closeness with nato Quot Zhelev said in a speech to foreign ministers and other officials of North Atlantic treaty organization countries. He became the fourth Leader of a onetime soviet bloc nation to visit the nato Headquarters in recent months and Appeal for closer ties. Zhelev said previous appeals by Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland for eventual nato membership were a a natural reaction Quot to the Security vacuum left in Eastern Europe after the soviet led Warsaw pact was disbanded. Quot hence they have the Strong desire to accede to nato being the Only viable collective military Structure on the continent a Zhelev said. A Bulgaria was not a stranger to such a  at a Summit last week in Rome president Bush and other Alliance Lead is called for closer tics with East european nations and agreed to set up a special cooperation Council for regular East West talks on Security. But the Alliance has ruled out membership for its former adversaries tearing that step would upset the Sis Viel Union and dilute nato s effectiveness. Zhelev praised the alliances Rome decisions. Quot they reassure us that nato will continue successfully to act As a guarantor of Security and a pillar of stability in the rising euro Atlantic Community a lie said. In welcoming comments nato Secretary general Manfred Werner called who Levy a visit Quot another major step in our alliances Endeavor to develop a relationship of Trust Friendship and cooperation with the nations of Central and Eastern  Zhelev held closed door talks with Werner and officials of the 16 Alliance nations before his speech. In his address Zhelev offered to help mediate a Long testing dispute Between nato members Greece and Turkey by convening three nation talks on Security in Southeastern Europe. Greece and t Turkey Are at Odds Over Mineral rights in the Aegean sea and the status of Cyprus the Mediterranean nation t Turkey invaded in �?~j74 to protect i he t turkish population. Zhelev also expressed concern that the conflict in Yugoslavia might spill Over into Bulgaria lie said Bulgaria was willing to support a european Community observer Mission in Yugoslavia and invited it to station officials in Bulgaria. Bush scores one on staff who pointed out nil error Washington a does George Bush know football the president a sports and fitness fanatic of no mean repute appeared to be in the dark wednesday about a Basic fact of life in the National football league. Bush addressing Young Farmers m Kansas City mo., spoke of the Quot great season Quot the Kansas City chiefs were having and How a we could All Lake a lesson. ,. About competitiveness from the in l. Team. Then lie added Quot l course later this afternoon i ii be in St. Louis saying the same thing about the  reporters travelling with the president sent Bush a note observing that the cardinals football team a skipped town Lor Phoenix three years  undaunted the president suit Back a Page ripped from his Kansas City text underlined and written in the margin Quot the trouble is. You elitists done to listen to what is said. Does this say football defensively yours George  the Only cardinals left in St. Louis Are the National league baseball team. Bush added a footnote Quot weak i admit it go oilers if that kicker Hadnot thanked that Chip shot. Id be been of Quot t to weeks ago Bush ruffled the leathers of Many Washington sports fans by unabashedly rooting for the Houston oilers to beat the undefeated redskins. Bush considers Houston his Hometown. The redskins won in overtime after the Oil Erst place kicker missed a Short yield goal