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NATO warns warring Bosnian snipers
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a lough stance on its peacekeeping mission
NATO warned Bosnia’s warring factions Mon
day that any more attacks on its troops wil
provoke deadly force.
NATO said rogue elements from all side;
shot live times at alliance troops and twice a
airplanes over the weekend. There were m
injuries, but NATO said it has had enough.
I four forces are threatened, “they have ever)
right and responsibility to attack the source,’
said U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, commandci
of the NATO force in Bosnia. “It is not a goot
idea to continue.”
Although it is not clear how effective NATO’ >
heavy weaponry would be against isolated snip
ers, the alliance’s battery of sophisticated weap
onry could be a daunting deterrent. And NATC
troops already have lired back hard on occa
' sion, beginning when an Italian soldier was hit
by a sniper last week.
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; NATO officials insisted that overall their
, mission is going well as reports surfaced that
recent violence between Muslims and Croats in
the pivotal city of Mostar was easing. Failure to
achieve peace in the divided southwestern city
i could bode ill for a Muslim-Croat federation.
“Both sides have managed to calm the situ
i at ion,” said Hans Koschnick, the European
Union’s administrator for Mostar.
But tensions remained high in the wake of
ethnically motivated attacks last week that left
a Croat policeman and a young Muslim civilian
dead, and two Muslim policemen wounded.
“In the last lew days there were some inci
dents in Mostar and elsewhere,” U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State Robert Gallucei said after
meeting with Croatian officials in Zagreb, in
cluding President Franjo Tudjman.
“It is important that we all try to work to
make sure that these kinds of incidents do not
continue and that we meet the deadlines.”
In another area that could threaten the peace
plan, Bosnian Serbs in the Sarajevo suburb of
Ilidza held two people from the government
held sector of the divided capital.
The Serbs claimed they were arrested after
driving into their area wearing Bosnian govern
ment army uniforms, said NATO spokesman
Lt. Col. Mark Rayner.
The Bosnian government, however, said that
lour civilians were being held and they were
abducted lromamain road lcadinginto Sarajevo.
The detentions occurred Friday, the same
day 16 other civilians were released by Serb
authorities amid warnings from NATO.
People in the Serb-held sectors of Sarajevo
arc particularly edgy because the Bosnian peace
agreement mandates that all of Sarajevo is to be
governed by their former enemies.
Serbs say they are worried about retaliation
by Muslims and some have begun leaving for
Serb-controlled sections of the country.
NATO commander Smith stressed Monday
that his troops would not impede their departure.
Serbs already have started to leave other
areas they have to cede to Muslims and Croats
under the terms of the peace agreement.
Also in Sarajevo, Bosnian Croat and Serb
army representatives agreed toa Red Cross plan
for the release of all prisoners by Jan. 16. But
the Bosnian government army delegation re
fused to sign, apparently because of a dispute
over the number of prisoners being held.
Meanwhile, NATO and officials with the
Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague,
Netherlands, discussed how alliance troops in
Bosnia can arrest indicted war crimes suspects.
The U.N. court has indicted 52 suspects
including Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic and his army commander Gen. Ratko
Mladic, but has just one suspect in custody.
Those accused lace charges ranging from
rape and torture to genocide.
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[Minii
Blizzard sends
workers back home
CHICAGO—Federal employees who
had been out of work for weeks while the
government was shut down began return
ing to work Monday — weather permit
ting.
Along the East Coast, many govern
ment workers were idled by a huge bliz
zard that paralyzed the nation’s capital.
In Atlanta, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s staff of 6,400
were back on the job—then told to leave
early because of the winter storm.
Mail was stacked at least 4 feet high
when Buddy Sexton returned to work as
the assistant mail room supervisor at the
Housing and Urban Development office
in Phoenix.
By 11 a.m., Sexton still had 5,000-plus
pieces of mail to sort.
“It’s going to take the rest of the week
just to get caught up,” he said.
Airport plagued
by more glitches
DENVER—Last week, it was Denver
International Airport’s balky ground ra
dar system. This week, it’s stalled trains.
The problems at the city’s new $5 billion
airport just never end.
Even the automated baggage system
that was supposedly cured from its habit
of chewing up luggage is causing trouble
again. Angry passengers called a radio
station last week, with one passenger say
inghis bag“looked like it had been chewed
on by an alligator.”
The airline acknowledged it has not
used the inbound part of the automated
system since Dec. 22 because of a com
puter error that gave the system amnesia
on where to deliver bags.
Japanese man finds
meteorite fragment
TOKYO—A fiery meteorite streaked
over central Japan and blew up Monday.
A 19-year-old student driving in the
city of Tsukuba, 37 miles northeast of
Tokyo, was quoted as saying he saw a
rock drop out ofthc sky in front of his car
and got out to pick it up.
The rock was later examined by
Masako Shima, a researcher at the Na
t ional Science Museum, who confirmed it
came from a meteorite, reports said.
The fragment was about the size and
shape of half an egg and appeared to be
charred on one side. The student, Ryutaro
Araki, was quoted in local newspapers as
saying the rock was still warm when he
found it.
Israeli official
resigns after
assassination
1EL AVIV, Israel -The head of Israel’s Shin
Bel security service resigned Monday, saying
his agency was primarily to blame for failing to
prevent the assassination of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin,
Shimon Peres, who succeeded Rabin, said in
a statement that he accepted the resignation
“with regret” at the insistence of the security
chief, who can only be identified by the first
initial of his first name, “C.”
Although “C ” was the first Shin Bet,head
considered to be more of an expert on Jewish
radicals than Arab radicals, critics accused him
of overlooking the possibility that a Jew would
try to kill Israel’s leader.
In his resignation letter, excerpted in Peres’
statement, “C ” said he was stepping down
because “the main failure that led to the horrible
murder was the agency’s.” But he denied per
sonal wrongdoing.
Shin Bet officialshaveadmitted that security
measures at the Nov. 4 Tel Aviv peace rally
where Rabin was shot were primarily aimed at
preventing an attack by Arabs.
Videotape of the killing shows the security
around Rabin appeared lax. Confessed assassin
Yigal Amir was allowed to wait in ambush
beside Rabin’s car.
“C’s” resignation also appeared linked to
the killing three days ago of the terrorist most
wanted by the Shin Bet, Yehiya Ayyaslv.
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Ayyash died while talking on a booby-trapped
mobile phone in an operation widely attributed
to the Israeli agency. Israel has not formally
claimed responsibility.
But Environment Minister Yossi Sarid said
that after the assassination of Rabin - the first
high-level political killing in Israel’s history -
“there was no other possibility” but for him to
resign.
“This is how a man of honor acts,” Sarid
said.
The 45-year-old “C ” will remain at the helm
ofthe Shin Bel, whose role isdefined as rooting
out spies and countering threats to national
security, until a successor has been found. '
Israeli media reports said Peres might take
the unusual step of appointing a replacement
from outside the agency. The reports named
military figures, including former navy com
mander Ami Ayalon and Maj. Gen. Ilan Biran,
who is Israel’s top West Bank commander, as
possible replacements. Israel TV said Peres
might also call on “C’s” predecessor, Yaacov
Perry, to come back.
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“C’s” attorney* Eli Zohar, said the Shin Bet
chief, who was abroad at the time Rabin’s
assassination, decided to resign the moment he
heard of it. But Peres initially rejected the offer.
Peres apparently changed his mind when a
commission of inquiry on the assassination sent
letters of warning last month to “C ” and five
other security officials. Such letters often pre
cede the assigning of blame by inquiry panels.