European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday november 28,1994 at a glance Susan Smith the Mother charged with sending her two Small sons to drown in a murky Lake accused her Stepfather of molesting her when she was 16, a newspaper in South Carolina reported. See Story on Page 6. West Bank attack gunmen believed to be islamic militants opened fire on a car carry ing jewish settlers in the West Bank on sunday killing one person and wounding another. Pages a Success the Rev. Mike Evans says his god bless Cambodia crusade was a Success even though he had to flee the country in pre Dawn dark Ness. ". Page safety in the bag Volvo has gotten a jump on its competitors in the Auto safety race with the introduction of the first Side Impact air bag. A " Aida in Egypt the splendor of ancient Egypt mixed with cold modern reality As the opera Aida opened in Luxor. Page 10 smoking minus smoke . Reynolds plans to Market a cigarette that produces Little smoke or odor and no Ash. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers .20 automotive. 9 classifieds. 21-25 comics. 18-20 commentary 13 faces w places. 10 focus 15-17 Horoscope. 22 Jumble. 22 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 sports 28-32 to listings. 31 weather 11 u.k., Alliance failed to Bluff their Way to peace in Bosnia by Robert h. Reid the associated press Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Hills around Bihac rebel serbs called the Bluff of nato and the United nations now it seems unlikely that the world can Ever use the threat of Force her again. . Officials admit that the serbs Vio lated nearly every criterion the United nations and nato set to Merit the use of Force they entered a Safe area fired weapons near . Troops and threatened the safety of civil ians r. \. But on saturday the . Commander for Bosnia it. Gen. Michael Rose said the United nations had not promised to defend r analysis the ground hesitate Willy Claes nato s Secretary general said sunday. There seems to be an infernal Contra diction Between the United nations Mission to keep peace and nato s mis Sion to impose it. Both the United nations and the Alli Ance fear that the use of massive Force Isa policy from which there is no Retreat. Enough air Power to change the balance of forces on the ground would also make the world and the 24,000 . Peace the United nations to step in. Of course we re fighting bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic said what do you expect us to do dance bosnian serbs were Able to circumvent the embargo by receiving weapons from Yugoslavia until a cutoff by Belgrade last keepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina com emerges in february following a mortar in 4 n an nov a. A. _ . Command Hopes is that the bosnian government will abandon Hopes of nato intervention and open talks with the serbs on ending the War. With the serbs holding 70 percent of Bosnia that would amount to surrender. The possibility of nato intervention. " j if _ Al. Attack on a Sarajevo Market that killed 68batants in the War.. Authorities blame the government people. Televised scenes of mangled Bod anything. Hours later the for creating the problem in Bihac by fes prompted nato to demand that Security Council refused to authorize launching an offensive from there last both sides rein in their heavy weapons Force to save Bihac. Month. But officials of the Muslim led but has happened so Many times inthe use of Force appears to have been government say this is unfair. The bosnian conflict policy was driven simply a Bluff. And in the Balkans with a they feel the . Arms embargo on More by television and emotion1 than belong history of violent conflicts a Bluff Bosnia has prevented the bosnian army calculation. The will to take a step that can be played Only once. From adequately defending its own peo might plunge the United nations and the military experts with groups on pie making it All the More important for nato into the War was lacking. Serbs from Page 1 attacks to Stop the latest serbian Offen Sive against Bihac. This is a classic failure where nato has been tied in knots and they be almost become irrelevant pole said. Dole the next Senate majority Leader supports lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia s muslims. He said . Resolutions creating havens in the War torn country have become meaningless. Who cares what the . Does Dole asked adding that the new Republican majority would take a hard look at . Financial support for the United nations. The president is going to have to Stop relying on the United nations and Start looking at whether we Are going to be a part of Perry acknowledged that nato is powerless to conduct airstrikes to influence the situation without . Approval but he said he opposed unilateral . Action to lift the arms embargo. It would drive . Troops out of bos Nia he said and it would Lead to a wid ening of the War. It would Lead to More Perry repeated the administration s position that it would consider More sub Stantial actions against the serbs including use of ground troops if the War spread beyond bosnian Borders. A Small . Force is already of the ground in Macedonia monitoring its Bor Der with Serbia the main Republic remaining in Yugoslavia. Truce fro Page 1 and retreated North. The serbs have vowed to destroy the5th corps which launched a temporarily successful offensive from Bihac Las month. 7-. Elsewhere serbian soldiers again humiliated the United nations apparently taking 102 dutch peacekeepers and 62 British . Soldiers hostage As the moved through Eastern and Central bos Nia and Herzegovina on four . Supply convoys. The dutch peacekeepers were in route saturday to the Eastern enclave of Srebre Nica. The British were headed for Gorade another Eastern enclave and Kiseljack just West of Sarajevo said a . Spokesman maj. Herd Gourm Clon. They were last heard from in Serbia territory Gou Melon said. The serbs now have More than 400peacekeepers under their control since threatening to take hostages in Retalia Tion for nato airstrikes last week. Fear of More retaliation against the24,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia is one Rea son . Commanders have refused Socall in More air Power around Bihac. . Officials instead Are pressing the bosnian government to accept a peace settlement offered by the serbs on Condi Tion that they keep the 70 percent of bos Nia they now hold. Nato Secretary general Willy Clae admitted the Alliance could not Stop the assault on Bihac. Claes told belgian television that there was an infernal contradiction Between the United. Nations Mission to keep peace and nato s to impose it. Late saturday the . Security Council again refused to Call in nato airstrikes to defend Bihac one of six Safe areas in Bosnia designated by the Council in May 1993. The Council has never stipulated How to defend the zones and the United nations is now making Clear it will not do so. Bosnian serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic pressed Home the Battlefield advantage by reiterating an offer of a comprehensive peace settlement to be signed in Geneva in seven to 10 Days in Bihac a Piljagic called the situation chaotic and there is fierce fighting going on inthe suburbs and a constant threat the serbs could enter the town Center he said. A corridor about four to five Miles wide remains open to the North of town but the Region As a whole is encircled by bosnian and croatian serbs. Nato from Page 1 entry will be set. We will address the Why and the How of new members and we will defer the who and the when Hunter said. Although nato refuses to name the front runners analysts predict Hungary Poland the czech Republic and Slovakia will be the first in maybe As Early As 1996 or 1997. Romania and Bulgaria also Are in the running they say. But before adding on the allies want to answer a Host of questions about the possible Impact on the organization of taking in the less developed easterners. Willy Claes nato s new Secretary general said in Washington recently that the foreign ministers would authorize a detailed study of How to enlarge the Al Liance so that we can identify the conditions that have to be among the questions to be answered How much should new members pay to the organization will nato need to station troops on their territory will the new entrants become a part of the joint military command immediately or later will the applicants enter individually or in a group Hungary Poland and others have Bee putting pressure on nato to let them under its Security umbrella. Under their1949 founding charter nato members agreed to consider an attack on on member As an attack on All. In an Effort to respond to the de mands president Clinton and other Al lied leaders approved at a january sum Mit a . Initiative called partnership for peace that draws former foes closer but without membership. Twenty three nations mostly in East Ern Europe have enrolled in the pro Gram which allows them to take part in military exercises and other Alliance activities. ,.the allies had been hesitant to go beyond that for fear of isolating and upset Ting Russia still a formidable military Power. Russia has since joined the partnership and been granted a special dialogue on Security and other issues with the allies. Moreover the Western nations intend to agree in the coming weeks to some russian demands for bolstering the 53-nation conference on Security and cooperation in Europe of which it is a full member
