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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 2, 1994 world the stars and stripes. Page 9 russian Calls on Milosevic to pressure bosnian serbs Belgrade Yugoslavia a Serbia s president must get the bosnian serbs to accept an International peace plan if he wants sanctions lifted against his re Public russian foreign minister Andrei Kozarev said monday. Slobodan Milosevic will need a lot of courage now Kozarev said after meeting with the president of the main yugoslav Republic. Milosevic must get Bosnia serbs endorsement of the. Plan and the russian Side. Will get the lifting of the  Khz Prev s comments made to russian reporters an Given to the associated press suggested Milosevic must carry out threats to Cut off vital support to the bosnian serbs if he is to press them into agreeing to the plan. Russia the United states Britain France and Ger Many have proposed slashing serbian holdings in bos Nia from 70 percent to 49 percent and giving the rest of the War torn state to a Muslim croatian federation. The federation has accepted the plan but the bosnian serbs have walked. On sunday Milosevic gave his strongest warning Yetto Bosnia s serbian leaders that he May Cut off the weapons food fuel and Money on which their self styled state depends. But he has made such threats before and never Fol Lowed  Krajisnik head of the self styled bosnian serbian Assembly indicated that the bosnian serbs might still defy Milosevic and let their people decide on the plan in a referendum. This is a shocking situation we did not expect Krajisnik told the Belgrade daily Borba. Milosevic is widely seen As chief instigator of three years of Balkan warfare inciting serbs in Croatia and Bosnia to fight for a greater  Bosnia s serbs launched the War in april 1992 after muslims and croats voted to secede Frodo serbian dominated Yugoslavia. An estimated 200,000 people Are dead or missing. Milosevic faces opposition from nationalists and the bosnian and croatian serbs to making peace and giving up captured territory. But bosnian serbian rejection of the latest plan Means Serbia and Montenegro the two states remain ing in Yugoslavia face a tightening of 2-year-old sanctions imposed for fomenting War. The . Security Council is Likely to consider in a week to 10 Days whether to tighten sanctions. Priest freed after kidnapping shootout Zamboanga City Philippines a _ a american priest was in Good spirits monday after being abducted by suspected Muslim extremists then freed hours later following a shootout Between his Kidnap pers and a rival islamic group. Authorities blamed sunday s kidnapping of the Rev. Clarence Bertelsman 70, on the extremist Abu Sayyar group which has carried out attacks against christians. The priest who has worked in the Philippines for 43 years was in Good condition despite gunshot wounds in the buttocks and left forearm. Classes at roman Catholic schools on Jolo Island where the kidnapping took place were suspended Mon Day. Police warned priests and nuns not to say mass except at a heavily guarded monastery. Bertelsman said he was saying afternoon mass when eight gunmen burst in and dragged him to a Van. The Van was stopped about eight Miles away at a Check Point of the rival  National liberation front the largest islamic rebel group. A gun Battle broke out killing two kidnappers and wounding two rebels. The other kid nappers escaped. Churchill unaware of Japan s pans document shows London a a newly released wartime7document clears Winston Churchill of allegations that he knew Japan was about to attack Pear Harbor but failed to warn the United states a news report said monday. Some historians have sought to show tha Churchill Britain s wartime Leader concealed his knowledge of the impending attack to draw the Neutral United states into world War ii. Japanese aircraft attacked the . Pacific Leet at Pearl Harbor in the Early hours of dec 7, 1941, killing 2,300 people and destroying 120 aircraft and 19 ships. _ the United states joined Britain and the other allies in the War the following Day. In a 1993 Book betrayal at Pearl Harbor authors James Rusbridge and Eric Nave claimed that Britain had cracked vital japanese codes and intercepted naval signals to learn of the imminent attack. But the new document shows Britain had no Advance knowledge of the attack Anthony Best a lecturer in International history at the Londo school of economics and political science told the daily Telegraph. He said the document an internal history of Britain s naval intelligence division written in 1945 states categorically we had not penetrated the japanese plan to attack Pearl  -. Best added if British naval intelligence whose Job it was to track the japanese Navy did not know about the attack it was impossible for Churchill to have had any foreknowledge of it.", the document was made available to historians last week under prime minister John major s policy of reducing secrecy in official records. American bowl 94 in Berlin new is. 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