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- WORLD, Page 41World NotesYUGOSLAVIAAnother Day, Another Truce
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- The fragile truce -- the sixth in just three months -- held
- only nine days. Last week the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army,
- charging that Croatia had violated the cease-fire, launched a
- new offensive aimed at crushing resistance in the rebel
- republic. The main targets of the onslaught were the key
- Croatian towns of Vukovar, Vinkovci and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia's
- best-known tourist attraction on the Adriatic coast. As warships
- blockaded the port city, air-force jets bombed and strafed it,
- while artillery pounded the area, leaving Dubrovnik without
- electricity and water.
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- At week's end the leaders of Serbia and Croatia agreed on
- the outlines of yet another truce. Serbian President Slobodan
- Milosevic and federal Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic agreed
- to call off the offensive, while Croatian President Franjo
- Tudjman pledged to lift blockades around federal army bases.
- Both sides also pledged to discuss new political arrangements
- for the protection of minorities. But the news produced no
- immediate break in the fighting, raising fears that the
- atavistic struggle might be beyond diplomatic solution.
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