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- THE WEEK, Page 25WORLDWhile Bosnia Suffers
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- Serbs block relief columns and continue to defy U.N. flight
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- As the international community dithered on the margins of the
- crisis in Yugoslavia, the anguish continued in beleaguered
- Bosnia-Herzegovina. An aid convoy bound for the town of
- Srebenica, where some 80,000 Muslims have been trapped by
- fighting for months, was blocked at the Serbian border for days
- by Serb militiamen and angry, jeering civilians. A convoy to
- Goradze was delayed after an escorting personnel carrier hit a
- mine.
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- The ban on military flights over Bosnia, imposed by the
- U.N. early last month, has been violated more than 100 times,
- according to a U.N. commander. Western diplomats said Serbs have
- used military helicopters to ferry troops and supplies, even as
- NATO officials in Brussels contemplate plans for enforcing the
- ban. Fear of fighting yet to come compelled the Security
- Council to approve sending monitors to Macedonia, and President
- Bush urged the same for neighboring Kosovo, where tensions are
- high between Serbs and the ethnic Albanian majority. A shipment
- of construction material did reach Montenegro to prevent some
- 7 million tons of toxic sludge from breaking through a
- dangerously weakened dam and flowing into the Danube River
- system.
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