YUGOSLAV EVENTS CHRONOLOGY MAY-AUGUST 1995 May 1 Serbs shell Sara. as cf expires, enter UN weapons collection pt. in Ilidza and pre- pare to take tanks; Ukr. pks trapped inside by mines laid outside (2nd site entered in 2 days); sniping increases along Sniper Alley; Serbs also shell village of Pazaric (10 miles SW of Sara.) killing 2; More fighting around Brcko as Cro. govt. forces shell corridor; govt. troops come under Serb attack in corridor while other govt. forces launch attack against Serb comm. tower in Majevica hills (S. of Brcko); Croatian forces launch attacks on 3 fronts against Kra. Serbs; 2 Cro. MiG-21s attack key bridge on Sava river linking Cro. to Bos.; Serbs claim Cro. have shelled 2 Serb- held towns on n. border with Bos., Kara. threatens to come to their aid; US, UN Sec. Coun. condemn Cro. attack May 2 Serbs fire rockets with cluster bombs into Zag. town squares killing 5, wounding 121; US amb. Galbraith calls it 'a repugnant act clearly intended to kill many people' says it is designed to provoke full-scale war; US evacuates 35 from Zag.; rockets probably fired from Petrinja (25 miles S.); Karlovac also hit by rockets; Tudjman says Croatian offensive over after surrender of Okucani, but talks between Kra. Serbs and Croats near Zag. airport suspended as safety of Serbs cannot be guaranteed; Serbs shell Sara.; Rus. For. Min. demands hostilities cease at once and neg. resume; Milo., Mont. pres. Bula- tovic, and fed. pres. Lilic meet to discuss Cro. attack, call it criminal and inexcusable to attack civilians May 3 Serbs fire more rockets at Zag., killing 1, wounding 43; flow of Serb refugees into Bos. largely halted as Croats now control north side of Sava bridge at Bosanska Gra- diska; Serbs free UN personnel held hostage, cf negotiated; speculation that Milo., other Serb leaders considered Sector West indefen- sible and would not come to its aid; up to 1,000 Cro. soldiers reported moving into Sec. South (Dalmatia); tension high in Gos- pic-Medak area; Director of Alb.-lang. univ. in Tetovo sentenced to 2 1/2 yrs. in prison for inciting a riot; 77 Alb. policemen go on trial in Prizren and Gnjilan charged with creating shadow Kos. police force (to date 16 have been sentenced to 6 yrs. in prison and 159 arrested) May 4 Pakrac (55 miles SE of Zag.) falls to Croatian forces, 5,000 civilians, troops surrender; Bos. Serbs expel 9 Catholic nuns to Cro. in retaliation, convents abandoned; 800-1,000 Serbs taken away by Cro. despite UN protests; UN Sec. Coun. passes res. condemning Cro. behavior in Pakrac, Serb missile attacks, calls on Cro. to withdraw to previous positions; Serb war-criminal Seselj sends 'vol.' to defend Kra., as is 'Arkan' (Zeljko Raznatovic); Drunk Fre. pks throw grenades killing govt. sol.; Serbs in Maglaj wound 6 Bri. pks, drawing 'strong protest' from UN to local Serb hq, also shell Bihac killing 1, wounding 6 (4 children) May 5 Croatia shows hundreds of well-treated prisoners to TV to disprove charges it is mistreating them; Croats, Serbs move forces into UN separation zones, some shelling reported; Cro. auth. say minors and men over 60 to be released that night; PM Valentic, in Pakrac, says all civilians may return to be 'peacefully reintegrated into the Cro. system'; UN official reports both sides concentrating troops in E. Cro.; Sara. airport closed for all but UN mil. flights, Serbs shell Mt. Igman rd. and govt. threatens retaliatory shelling of Serb sup- ply lines if it continues; Govt. troops launch 'probing attack' near Turbe (C. Bos.), Serbs attack Cro. enclave of Orasje (N. Bos.), shelling by both sides; Serbs confine Banja Luka Catholic Bishop Komarica to house arrest, bishop says he has been told nuns abducted in stolen IHRC veh.; US to give $28 mil. in aid to refugees in Cro., Bos.; Ukr. pk killed in Zepa May 6 EU mil. monitors say Serbia moves 27 tanks towards Cro. border, but they are operating in daylight indicating a warning only; Cro. army building up near Osijek where thou- sands of Serb civilians are being evacuated; Cro. moves 300 troops into UN buffer zone over Drava River; Over 5,000 of western Slavonia's 15,000 Serbs have fled into Bos.; Cro. DM Gojko Susak says Serb cas- ualties 450 dead; Kra. Serb leader Martic admits he ordered rocket attack on Zag. May 7 Serbs shell Sara. sub. of Butmir killing 11, injuring 40 near tunnel under airport; battles around Jewish cemetary, mortars, rockets hit Holiday Inn; Bihac hit for 4th straight day, UN backs off threat of airstrikes; Serbs shoot down hel. in Zepa killing 12, wounding 11; Serbs in Kra. fire 24 rockets at Coralici (W. Bos.); Serbs claim to shoot down Bos. govt. hel. near Zepa killing 12, wounding 11; Serbs also blow up 2 Cath. churches, set fire to another in N. Bos. in retaliation for Cro. offensive; VP Ganic tells UN Gen. Rupert Smith govt. troops will shell Serb civilians if NATO doesn't stop Serb attacks; NATO jets fly over capital but UN doesn't call in strikes; Cro. Chief-of-staff Gen. Zvoni- mir Cervenko meets with leader of Cro. Serbs Borislav Mikelic who are in oppo- sition to Kra. Serbs May 8 Serbs fire on Tuzla killing 4, UN protests; Serbs also attack Sara., but UN turns down Gen. Smith's request for airstrikes citing safety concerns of pks; NATO jets circle Lukavica (Serb-held) for 2 hrs.; UN confirms Serbs have dozens of heavy weapons within Sara. exc. zone, also says Serb tanks fired on govt. positions inside zone; 2 killed in Serb art. attack on Jelah (near Maglaj); UN also reports that it knew of Cro. airstrikes against bridge at Bosanska Gradiska during offensive but could not confirm that a con- voy of civilians had been attacked May 9 UN buses Serb civilians out of area captured by Cro. (first time UN used to help expel Serbs during war); Bos. govt. says UN no longer feels competent to defend Sara. after Serb shelling which killed 11; monument to victims of fascism at Jasenovac reported to have survived Cro. advance; Akashi meets in Bel. w/ Milo., Martic, others to try to keep situation in Kra. under control; Serbs con- centrating heavy weapons 80 km. SE of Zag., also fire 3 art. rds. near Dubrovnik; Serbs also shell Tuzla May 10 Fighting in Posavina corridor between Serbs and Croats as Croats claim that town of Orasje (N. of corr. and part of Croat-con- trolled pocket in region) came under Serb attack; shells explode in Sara. Old Town wounding 4; Art. shell explodes in Serbian town of Mali Zvornik killing 1, wounding 2, Yugo. amb. to UN says Bel. will not tolerate attacks on its terr.; Kra. leader Martic ac- cuses Croats of massacreing 150 in attack on Western Slavonia but no evidence offered May 11 Fre. pk killed, 8 civs. wounded by sniper fire in Sara., govt. snipers wound 2 in Grbavica ; Fre. FM Juppe says new Fre. govt. will debate withdrawal of troops is UN presence is not secured, but also says giving them ability to use more force could be one solution; Serbs still shelling Orasje w/ 500 shells hitting Matici alone, govt. shelling Brcko; Serbian leg. condemns Slavonian attack; UN now backing away from accusations that Cro. army shot fleeing civs. May 12 Die Presse says Dutch pks in BH under inves- tigation for using children to search for mine May 13 Former PM of Kosovo, Jusuf Zejnullahu ar- rested in Pristina on charges of 'criminal offenses of assoc. aimed at hostile act.' in connection with the approval of the Ko- sovar cons. in 1990; Bishop Komarica pro- tests to Bos. Serb leadership after nun and priest's burned bodies found in church de- stroyed by exp. (Serbs have destroyed 40 in area) May 14 Heavy fighting around Orasje pocket, Posa. corridor, Cro. and HVO forces shell Brcko after Serbs fire 5,000 shells on Orasje; Govt. 5th Corps firing on Bosanska Krupa w/ art., mortars to gain control of key rd., Serbs firing machine guns at Mt. Igman rd.; 208 Mus. bussed by Serbs into govt. terr. at Turbe after being forced to pay $350 each to leave homes, 40 men taken from buses by Serbs; Zejnullahu released, says he was not questioned and has no idea why he was arrested May 15 Bos. Serb forces fail to push back Cro. troops after week-long off. in Orasje- Grebnice-Vidovice areas, UN denies that Croats have launched counter-off. against Brcko area; Serbs cut off nat. gas supply line to Sara. despite agreement not to do so May 16 Heaviest fighting in 2 yrs. hits Sara. w/ hand-to-hand fighting in trenches, mortars, rockets, and heavy art., at least 5 killed, 26 civs., 2 pks wounded; fighting begins with govt. mortar attack on Serb mil. base near Serb supply road to Pale, Serbs attack govt. positions near Lukavica; govt. plea for NATO airstrike turned down despite presence of NATO planes overhead; Boutros-Ghali said to be favoring reduction and redeployment of UN forces; Cro. amb. to UN Mario Nobilo tells UN Sec. Coun. that Cro. forces will complete withdrawal from buffer areas of Sector South that day; Cro. Serb commander Gen. Milan Celeketic gives his resignation to Martic saying he no longer has 'the moral force necessary' to lead troops; Tudj. in Bonn for conversations w/ Kohl, Kinkel promises again that Cro. troops will withdraw May 17 Milo., in neg. with US Contact Group rep. Robert Frasure, reportedly ready to re- cognize BH in return for 200 day lifting of sanctions; Heavy shelling continues in Sara. with UN reporting hundreds falling, but also saying it is mainly 'military on military' (15 wounded including 2 pks, 5 govt. soldiers, and 8 civilians); Serbs fire 12 shells in 'safe zone' of Bihac killing 3, wounding others; UN says Serbs fail to gain ground in NE offensive to strengthen narrow supply corridor with Serbia; Serb. admin. in Kosovo plans to settle 10,000 refugees from Slavonia in Kosovo May 18 Shelling and sniping in Sara. kills 2, wounds 7; both sides pledge not to resume fighting unless attacked; Govt. forces take town and 3 villages S. of Bihac, Serbs have apparently evacuated up to 6,000 Serb civilians from area; Serbs blow up 6th Cath. church in recent weeks in Banja Luka area; Cath. bishop in BL, Franjo Komarica goes on hunger strike in protest, while UN says 'an atmosphere of panic and fear reigns' among remaining Croats; UN orders Serbs, Croats to move from buffer zones near Kra.; Serbian Orthodox church in Bel. issues condemnation of violence against Catholics saying 'evil is evil, regardless of who does it and against whom'; Slovene govt. denies entry visa to Patriarch Pavle say- ing his visit could cause ethnic tensions within Slo. May 19 Govt. troops reported to be burning Serb homes in retaken Bihac area; Some mortar explosions in Sara. as lull in fighting sets in; NATO asks members to confirm their commitment to sending in troops to help with UN withdrawal if needed; Leader of Mac.' ethnic Alb. Party for Dem. Prosperity, Nevzat Halili, sentenced to 18 months in prison for preventing police from carrying out their duties during police raid on Alb.-lang. univ. May 20 Kra. Serb parl. passes res. in favor of unity w/ Bos. Serbs, rejects UN mandate on pks in Cro.; fighting in Posavina cor- ridor near Brcko; Mac. Def. Min. Blagoj Handziski returns from US trip, says two countries agree on new forms of coop. in- cluding training in US; UN says govt. troops in Bihac not systematically burning Serb homes as Serbs claim May 21 Thousands of Cro. Serbs heading into Bos; UN reports almost 2,000 explosions in Posavina corridor as fighting heats up with Serbs launching art., inf. attacks against govt. positions along Orasje-Samac line, and attack govt. positions on Mt. Trebevic and Treskavica (S. of Sara.); Kara. threatens to take UN personnel hostage if airstrikes are carried out, also pledges to take Sreb., Zepa, and Gor.; UN says 1,400 Cro. troops have not left buffer zones in Dalmatia as of previous day; Approx. 4,000 Serb refugees from Cro. 'Oper. Blitz' (May 1-2) leave shelters, head to E. Slavonia; Cro. auth. admit that 20 Serbs were killed in crossfire during oper.; Contact Group officials say Milo. close to making recognition deal May 22 Serbs raid UN heavy weapons depot, taking 2 guns, later shell Sara. killing 3, wounding 6 May 23 Frasure fails to get Milo. to agree to re- cognize Bos.; UN Sec. Coun. extends sanc- tions against Bos. Serbs for their failure to accept peace plan; Cro. Bishop Franjo Komarica in 6th day of hunger strike to protest Serb attacks on Croats, Cath. churches, and clergy May 24 Gen. Smith warns Bos. Serbs and govt. forces to stop using banned weapons in exc. zone by noon on the 25th, and tells Serbs to re- turn 4 guns taken from collection pts. or NATO air strikes will be ordered; Kara. re- sponds that UN failure to stop Cro. offen- sive in Cro. means UN has betrayed Serbs, says if UN orders strikes 'we are going to treat them as our enemies'; heavy fighting at Debelo Brdo hill in southern part of Sara. killing 5, wounding 20; Govt. troops push Serbs out of several villages in Bihac fighting; HVO and Cro. troops putting pres- sure on Serbs in Livno valley; Perry, in Ger., says he has been 'very forceful' in urging UN to use airstrikes; Bos. Serb leg. votes to unify with Kra. Serbs; UN estimates 100 Cro., 50 Serbs still in Dalmation buf- fer zones, and that 11,000 Serb refugees have left since the Cro. offensive May 25 NATO planes (US, Spain, Dutch, French) at- tack Serb ammunition sight 1.2 miles from Kara. hq, but do not do substantial damage; Serbs retaliate by shelling Tuzla, killing appox. 70 most outside a cafe; Serbs also attack UN weapons storage depot near Sara.; both attacks said to be in defiance of UN; shelling also of Sre. Bihac, and Gor.; Rus. calls for 'maximum restraint in the use of force' on airstrikes, but Yeltsin says Serbs were warned May 26 NATO planes again attack Serb ammunition dumps, Serbs retaliate by stealing weapons in UN depots, then by seizing 145 UN mil. observers and pks; Bos. Serb TV shows 6 of the pks handcuffed to poles near ammunition dumps and Mladic tells Smith that their lives will be in danger if there are any more air- strikes; Fra. demands that UN protect pks or Fra. will withdraw its contingent; Clinton calls hostage taking 'totally wrong', Penta- gon orders aircraft carrier and cruiser into Adriatic Sea May 27 Serbs seize more hostages bringing total to over 200; Serbs disguised as Fre. pks capture 12 Fre. pks at Vrbana Bridge in cen. Sara., then get in firefight with UN reinforcements (1 Fre. soldier killed, 4 Serbs); Mladic calls Smith, demands release of 4 captured Serbs; Fra. sends aircraft carrier Foch to Adriatic to pressure Serbs; NATO meets in emer. session but cannot decide how to re- spond; 1 Fre. pk killed by sniper in Sara.; Tuzla shelled May 28 33 Bri. in Gor. and 8 Can. in Ilijas seized bringing total now to 325; Serbs shoot down hel. near Cetingrad in Serb-held Cro. killing Bos. FM Irfan Ljubijankic (1 of 3 co-prez. of governing Party of Dem. Action; UN spokesman Ivanko says Serb army now acting 'like a terrorist org.'; NATO aircraft fly over Pale drawing anti-aircraft fire, but do not fire back; Serb Lt. Col. Milovan Milutinovic says 168 pks held at 'potential airstrike tar- gets'; Serbs have now taken 200 guns/mortars from UN collection pts. since Fri., also have cut off water, elec., gas to Sara., continue to shell Tuzla killing 1, wounding 2 May 29 Contact Group meeting in Ber., agrees to ex- pand pk force rather than limit it so as to protect UN forces or allow them to evacuate; Serbs push offensive in north with use of captured weapons; 5,000 Bri. troops to join Fre. and Amer. forces (2,000 marines) in Adr.; Clinton admin. official says use of US troops to conduct commando actions to free hostages not ruled out; Hurd says there must be better coor. between NATO, UN, and that 'we are not going to be combatants in this war'; Fre. amb. to US says Fra. must find credible ways to reinforce pks 'or the with- drawal will have to take place'; Rus. FM Kozyrev says 'Rus. can no longer tolerate barbarity as regards to pks in Bos., Rus. envoy A Zotov says 'we are really out- raged...it was quite unfortunate the local (Serb) leadership resorted to those ex- treme actions; Milo. ally Kra. PM Borislav Mikelic ousted by Kra. Serb leg.; Serbs seize 35 UN armored veh. from hostages, shell road connecting Sara. to Split near Mostar; 900 shells fired in Posavina corridor May 30 British forces begin landing in Croatia; John Major sends message to Kara., Mladic saying they will be held personally respon- sible if any Bri. hostages are harmed; 174 Fre., 55 Can., 41 Urk., 37 Rus., 34 Bri., and 26 others now being held hostage; Govt. attacks in Mt. Ozren area gains ground May 31 Bos. Serbs call for talks which will give sec. guarantees to Serbs, but UN rejects this saying hostages must be freed uncon- ditionally (UN spokesman Ivanko comments 'UN appears to be beyond any reconciliation w/ the Serbs', while Gen. Smith says Mladic is 'behaving like a terrorist'; Fre. aircraft carrier arrives off Cro.; 20 Bri. troops arrive in C. Bos.; UN estimates Serbs have stolen 16 APCs, 6 tanks, and hundreds of uniforms and helmets; Heavy fighting for hour in Sara. with art., also in Gor.; Fre. say new rapid deployment force (rdf) will be under UN command; Clinton says US ground troops being considered to help possible UN evacuation if NATO needs them; Bos. Serb FM Aleksa Buha says changing UNPROFOR mandate would mean war; Serb. FM Vladislav Jovanovic says Contact Group, Bel. may reach a deal, US envoy Frasure in Bel. for talks to try to get Milo. to help in releasing hostages June 1 Bri. troops landing in Split with heavy wea- pons; Fre. FM Alain de Charettes says US and Fre. policy 'are now the same'; Serbs take 1st civilian UN worker taken prisoner in Banja Luka; Kara. warns that rescue at- tempts of hostages 'would resemble a butch- er's shop'; 350 shells hit Gor., heavy fighting also in Sre. and near Doboj; Ger., in policy switch says it will send more than 2,000 troops to help with UN redeployment June 2 Serbs shoot down US F-16 with SA-6 missile while on routine patrol over Banja Luka, pilot cannot be located despite search and rescue effort; Serbs attacd Dutch pk post in Sreb. while govt. says 2 of its army corps within 1 mile of linking up on Mt. Ozren (near Tuzla); UN says 1,900 shells fired on this front, 1,300 more in Majevica Hills; Cath. church in Banja Luka damaged by bomb; Clinton meets with Perry, Shalikashvili to discuss Bos. policy, says policy 'remains firm' on limiting role of Americans; Serbs release 121 hostages sending them to Serbia after Milo. 'appeal'; Bos. Serbs call this goodwill gesture to the world Fre. armed forces chief, Adm. Jacques Lan- xade, resigns after Chirac accuses his mili- tary leaders in Bos. of cowardice; NATO DMs announce rdf which will bring total (w/ Bri. troops) to 10,000, US to supply AC-130 gun- ships, AH-1 Cobra attack hel., cargo and troop-carrying aircraft, and other equip; Members to be under UN control but will wear nat. uniforms and not blue helmets; Serbs attack 2 UN positions and seize more hos- tages, renege on promise to provide info. on US pilot despite telling AP that he was in their hands; Cro. FM Granic says concessions given to Milo. are 'moral capitulation' June 4 Serbs refuse to clarify fate of Amer. pilot, resume shelling of civilians killing 5, wounding 6 in Sara. sub.; Mladic threatens to widen war by launching missile attacks on heavily-pop. areas of Cro. in retaliation for new Cro. army offensive along border with Bos. (near Knin) June 5 Cro. army offensive continues as Cro. tries to cut off supply line for Serbs; Serb leader Martic appeals to UN to stop Cro. attack or face renewed missile attacks on Zag., Split, Cro. said to have gained control of 4 key mountains; Serbs continue to shell cities in BH; Wash. announces that it has received beeper signals from area where US pilot was downed; Rus. Dep. FM Karasin says Russia opposes NATO taking ind. stance in Bos.; Greek FM and DM and Milo. aide put pressure on Kara. to release hostages June 6 US says signal from pilot has ceased, but Bos. Serb official says they are not holding him; Cro. forces still trying to cut supply road for Serbs, but Serbs have not launched counterattack; US calls on Cro. to cease shelling of area; US says 1,500 US troops and 50 heli. would be moving from Ger. to Italy although they are not on alert; Kara. says he has 'no immediate plans' to free host.; Milo. reported to have expressed concerns over Cro. moves against Kra. to Akashi; Kozyrev now says Rus. 'somewhat reassured' about NATO RRF role in Bos.; talks between Frasure and Milo. break down when Milo. re- fuses to let org. other than UN Sec. Coun. reintroduce sanctions June 7 Serbs free 108 hostages claiming to have got- ten agreement from NATO to halt airstrikes; 3 more hostages released later in the day; UN official tells NY Times that there are to be no more airstrikes; Bos. FM Sacirbey ac- cuses UN of placing higher priority on saving troops than Bos. civilians; Serbs take tank, 100mm gun from UN depot in near Sara.; Heavy fighting in Sara. with 1 patient in hospital killed by stray bullet; art. being used again in city; seige of Orasje now 1 month long; Milo's office says all remaining hostages will be released in next few days; Serbs halt 10-truck food convoy headed to Zepa saying it is carrying ammunition, launch heave at- tack on town, also fire 4 mortar rds. into Tuzla, attack govt. positions on Mt. Trebe- vic and positions controlling communication in Lukavica-Pale June 8 US pilot Scott O'Grady rescued behind Serb lines by marines (pilot had hidden from Serbs for six days); Fighting along Kupres- Livno front, 3 killed, 22 wounded in Sara., Serbs fire art. on Dubrave-Crni Vrh (in Tes- lic region); Serbs fire 40mm tank cannons at govt. positions on Igman rd. which have been targetting Serb supply rts.; Bri. APC hit by small arms fire at Sara. airport, 3 Fre. APCs fired on by tanks; UN says 3 Serb tanks operating S. of Debelo Brdo, and that Serbs have taken tank and 100 mm gun from UN depot; Serbs reported to have fired white phosphorus rds. (banned by Gen. convention) at UN personnel near Vrbanja bridge; Fra. deploys heavy mortars in Igman dmz to support pks US House votes to lift arms emb. 318-99; Serbs agree to reopen aid rts. into Sara., but UN says it doesn't have the truck capacity to bring in the needed 6,000 tons per month June 9 White House refuses request by PM Silajdzic to lift arms emb., and says pres. will veto legislation requiring it; Serbs promise Red Cross access to remaining hostages soon; Serbs give remains of Bos. FM Ljubjankic to govt. in Bihac; Kra. Serb planes bomb Cro. positions in Dinara range as Cro. off. in area continues; Fre. pres. Chirac tells Greek PM that Serbs are not fighting for rel. but instead are 'terrorists' June 10 3 Bri. pks wounded by mine in Gornji Vakuf, Can. pk wounded by sniper near Visoko; Serbs fire 15 rds. from 88mm at UN depot in Hrasnica, Butmir subs., 27 mortar rds. from Kovacici into Hrasnica; Tudj. visits Okucani (W. Slav.), tells Serbs that another light- ning off. will be carried out if they do not reint. with Cro. by end of Oct. when UNCRO mandate runs out June 11 Fighting in Gor., Doboj, Bihac, and in Orasje-Bosanski Samac area; Govt. and Croats coop. near Travnik; Govt. forces claim to be making gains in Majevica Hills; Malaysian pks near Breza (N. of Sara.) forced to abandon positions after 5 art. rds. fired at them; NYT reports Yugo. still paying salaries of some Bos. Serb officers, and supplying troops with ammo., fuel, and training; Govt. VP Ganic rejects Boutros-Ghali's peace plan since this would allow Serbs to keep occupied terr.; Bos. Serbs seize food aid for Mus. in Zepa June 12 1st aid shiptment in 3 weeks reaches Sara. brought in by govt. drivers escorted by Bos. Serb police after Akashi approves scaled-back UN operations in exchange for allowing aid into Sara., 5 other areas; Red Cross says Serbs have stopped them from visiting UN hostages; Serbs continue shell- ing Croat positions on Orasje-Samac front including villages of Ostra Luka and Vidovice; Milan Babic named PM in Kra. to replace Borislav Mikelic June 13 Serbs say they have released all but 14 hostages, but promises they will be freed in coming days, Kara. pronouces crisis over, but says if Serbs are attacked they will defend themselves; Akashi contends that no deal cut with Serbs over hostages; Govt. troops re ported massing at several lo- cations near Sara. for possible offen- sive to break Sara. seige; UN officials say they have been ordered by New York not to challenge Serbs, and Serbs continue to refuse to turn over heavy weapons taken from UN June 14 UN now warns that 15,000 govt. troops are massing n. of Sara., Nasa Borba says possibly as many as 20-30,000; Serbs say they will increase shelling of city if attacked; Clinton tells Silajdzic 'the mil. sol. is not available to the Bos. govt.'; 50 Kra. Serbs allowed to return to homes in W. Sla. region by Cro. govt. June 15 Govt. attack begins with pre-dawn attack and shelling (1,800 explosions counted by UN) against Serb positions on mts. near Serb supply lines near Ilijas (12 miles N. of Sara.) and Vogosca (3 miles N. of city); Govt. troops attacking around Teslic on Doboj-BL rd.; Kara. calls off. 'a last try to change the sit. on the ground'; Bos. govt. closes only rd. into city due to danger and warns Sara. pop. to stay in- side; govt. won't say if this is attempt to break seige but Sacirbey says city cannot live through another winter like this; Govt. strategy said to be to stretch Serb resources too thin; UN says 91 pks detained by Serbs still unable to leave posts; Kra. Serb refs. being press-ganged into mil. service in Serbia despite this being illegal according to UN charter; UN Sec. Coun. approve rrf by 13-0 (Rus., China abstain) with troops wearing nat. uniforms and not using white veh.; Serbs still holding 26 pks June 16 Govt. offensive continues causing Serbs to launch counterattack on Sara., killing 20 (including 2 in hosp.); UN says govt. has won some terr. n. of city, and may have cut Serb supply lines; govt. forces advancing s. of Sara. also and may have cut supply rt. here too; UN reports that govt. forces have taken 42 heavy weap. from UN depots, disarmed Rus. pk unit; Fightin around Teslic, Mostar; Clinton tells G-7 meeting that he will back rapid reaction force but can not promise to pay for it due to cong. opposition June 17 Izet. says on TV that troops will eventually lift seige but time might not be right for all-out offen.; Govt. troops consolidating gains, Pale targetted for missile attacks; Serbs declare 'state of war' exists outside of Sara., suspend civ. auth., and step up drafting of men; also calls on G-7 summit to denounce govt. offensive; Some shelling of Sara.; Serbian Radical Party's anti- Milo. rally in Bel. draws 5,000 supporters, SRS leader Seselj not in attendance since he is in jail June 18 Serbs release last 26 hostages, but kill 7, wound 10 in Sara. by shelling those lined up for water; UN abandons heavy weapons collec- tion sites leaving 284 art. pieces subject to Serb seizures, says move necessary to prevent another hostage crisis; Serbs also win re- lease of 4 Serbs being detained by UN, al- though UN denies it is a prisoner swap; UN reports 700 explosions in Majevica Hills; Serb supply lines n. and s. of capital cut; Serbs declare special mobilization in Sara. area, declare 'state of war' June 19 Serbs reject Izet. offer to end off. if they respect 20-km exc. zone; UN reports that Pale-Lukavica rd. still in Serb hands June 20 600 Can. UN soldiers detained by govt. forces in Visoko who threaten to destroy the camp if they are interferred with; Bos. forces ex- plain this as necessary so that offensive plans not divulged to Serbs; fighting on n. and s. fronts of Sara.; Fre. pks destroy Serb tank after being fired on by it; Bos. Cro. leader Zubak says Cro. forces will back govt. troops 'to the end'; Serbs shell Cro-held terr. on Bos. side of Sava river; Zag. rejects Kra. demands that Cro. forces withdraw from W. Sla., or at least from Dinara heights overlooking Knin, Tudj. says army will retake Kra. if talks fail within a year; Rus. special envoy Vitaly Churkin makes unannounced visit to Milo. and Kara. to 'exchange ideas' June 21 2 Serb warplanes viol. no-fly zone but Gen. Janvier (UN force comm. for Yugo.) rejects NATO request to strike at airbase; Western diplomats, UN sources confirm that a deal was struck with Serbs in secret meetings to remove airstrike threat in exchange for hostages (Fra., Rus., and Gre. said to have part of the deal); UN spokesman says NATO request was NATO's way of getting UN to admit that deal was cut; Serbs shell Fre. pks on Mt. Igman, Dan. pks in E. Sara.; 6 civs. killed, 12 wounded by Serb shells in Dobrinja, 3 killed, 11 wounded by Serb. art. in Sreb; Govt. troops advance 12 miles S. of Sara., but lose Bihac town of Vrnograc to Bos. and Kra. Serb forces; Food convoy gets through to Sara., but UNPROFOR troops re- placed by UN command with Serb mil. through Serb terr. June 22 Intl. Herald Tribune reports that Akashi has sent letter to Kara. reassuring him that rrf will not open roads for convoys by force, and that 'all sides' have caused UNPROFOR problems; US amb. to UN Albright calls letter 'highly inappropriate' June 24 Both Serb and Govt. troops steal supplies from Fre. pks on Igman; Former commander of Yugo. army special units, Gen. Mile Mrksic, reported to be in charge of reorganizing Kra. Serb forces proving allegations of Yugo. in- volvement in Cro.; Cro. protests to Akashi presence of increasing Yugo. forces in Cro. esp. in Kra. June 25 Govt. troops recapture strategic hill out- side of Sara., also continue block pk move- ments until clarification received of rrf role (govt. fearful rrf will hamper off.); shelling and sniping kill 9 in Sara. June 26 Ger. Chan. Kohl's cabinet agrees to send mil. forces to support UN in Bos., Bel. condemns move; Serbs again shell Sara. killing 1, wounding 8, also fire on UN convoy provoking Fre. pk warning shots June 27 EU mediator Carl Bildt (Swe.) says increas- ed war likely in near future; Serbs shell Sara. again killing 1 child, 1 man while wounding 7 more children, 8 others; Kara. rejects EU truce offer saying 'temp. cfs ...have been misused by our enemies for regrouping and for the further obtaining of weapons', while Mladic says Serbs will fight and are prepared for protracted con- flict; Serbs fire on civ. targets in NW, and in Sara. killing 2, wounding 15; Sacirbey says Bos. prepared to accept UN withdrawal, although govt. is not seeking this; Tudj. says Cro. not planning off. against Kra. Serbs unless provoked June 28 Serb rockets hit TV station, nearby buildings in Sara. killing 5 in retaliation for govt. shelling, attacks on Serb-held subs.; Kara. tells troops in honor of Vidovan holiday, at- tacks should be stepped up to end war; NATO approves 'last resort' withdrawal plan; Feral Tribune burned in public by unknown (but suspected govt. agents) figures in Split June 29 Govt. demands UN mission be reviewed even as 3 mor. rds. hit UN hq (UN spokesman comments "it is difficult to say but, when we receive 3rds. together, we are obliged to consider this as a direct attack"); Zubak tell Bri., Fre. rrf that they will only be allowed to stay around Tomislavgrad 1 month; Croatia protests to UN over growing Yugo. presence on Cro. terr. (5,000 troops cited) June 30 7 wounded in Sara. when shell hits market, 13 others injured elsewhere; govt. off. continues, Serbs press off. in Bihac; Bos. govt. says it will no longer deal with Akashi since he is too conciliatory to the Serbs; Ger. parl. votes 386-258 to send jet fighters to fly cover for rrf (considerable protest during debate); Serbs say Ger. decision is 'tantamount to a mil. invasion; 4 killed; Clinton tells Cong. $50 mil. from Pent. budget will be used to support rrf; US petitions UN to impose travel ban against 40 key Bos. Serb leaders ('94 UN sanctions already prohibit non-peace talk travel) including Kara., Mladic; Fre. For. Min. of- ficials accuse US of supplying, instructing Mus.-Cro. forces, US denies it July 2 Serb' shells hit downtown Sara.; weekend death toll 16 July 4 Serbs fire on Fre. pks for 3rd straight day with Fre. returning fire; 1 killed, 17 wounded in Sara. shelling; Bos. Croats again say they will not allow rrf to pass until their mission is clarified; Cro. PM Nikica Valentic says Oper. Blitz (May 1-2) was limited and no new attacks will be made, but Cro. troop movements reported near Kra.; Mus. Nat. Coun. of the Sandzak re- ports to UN that ethnic cleansing, terror in region continuing; 90 US logistics troops arrive in Split to support rdf; Austria tells Ger. it may use its airspace for planes supporting UN mission July 5 Serb plane attacks Ostrozac power plant in NW Bos. (3rd no-fly zone viol. in 2 months), Silad. says emb. makes UN accomplice to murder; 1 killed, 14 wounded in shelling of Sara.; UN pks move 3 convoys into Sara. over Mt. Igman rt. under cover of night; 2 Bri. armored vehicles on Mt. Igman fired on by Serb mortars, anti-aircraft batteries; AFP reports that 140,000 of 760,000 workers in Cro. have not been paid in months July 6 Serbs shell Srebrenica killing 4, wounding 17, pin down Dutch pks, hit Dutch observa- tion post with tanks, mortars, and hit refugee ctr., Serbs reported to be attack- ing n. and s. perimeters of enclave; Sara's subs. hit by mortars killing 6, wounding 11; UN relief convoy arrives in Sara. under cover of fog; EU med. Carl Bildt meets with UN, Bos. govt. officials trying to convince govt. to allow 12,000-man Bri-Fre. rrf to be allow- ed in; Zubak tells rrf that it must leave Herc. by end of month if his questions about its mission unclarified; UN says rrf not subject to civ. vetoes (Akashi) but will be res. to Janvier July 7 Serbs attack Mt. Igman rd. where Bildt is travelling, and then fire 3 rockets near his hel. site after Bildt comments that he is not a tourist and not going to Pale because he doesn't think he will achieve anything there; More Serb art. attacks on Sara. brings 2-day casualty toll to 8 dead, 21 wounded; Serbs claim 5 civ. killed, 4 wounded in Serb parts of city; heavy Serb attacks on Sreb., UN convoys fired at near Tuzla, Sara.; Amnesty Intl. says most of Bos. atrocities work of the Serbs although all sides have committed some July 8 Serbs launch tank, infantry assaults on Sreb. with dozens reported dead and wounded, NATO planes called in but not requested to attack; Dutch observation post under attack and 15 forced to withdraw; 1 Dutch pk killed; Serb shell hits line of people wait- ing for water in Sara. killing several July 9 UN officials tell Mladic that airstrikes will be called for if Serbs continue attacks on Dutch pkf in Sreb. causing Dutch to return fire and stymie advance; Serbs now hold 32 Dutch pks hostage; Serbs continue to bombard Sara.; 2,000 Fre. enter Tomislavgrad area despite Cro. warnings against it July 10 Serbs tell refugees in Sreb. to leave safe haven within 48 hours, some civs. already fleeing into hills; Dutch pks fight with Serbs on outskirts of town, UN again declines to call in NATO airstrikes due to hostages and Bri. UN official says 'the Serbs have limited aims' in Sreb.; Serb guns hit Sara. and Zepa; Bos. govt. accuses UN of 'deli- berate inactivity' around Sreb., and women in Tuzla threaten to blockade UN unless UN stops Serbs in Sreb. July 11 Sreb. falls to Serb forces, NATO carries out 2 airstrikes requested by Dutch after observation posts, UN base compound, and hosp. come under fire; attack hits Serb tank but UN calls off 3 strike after Serbs threaten to kill 30 Dutch pks and Mladic promises to shell refs.; Mladic says he wants to 'demilitarize' area and that civs. have nothing to fear if they stay; Serbs also threatening to take Zepa where 16,000 refs. are located; Silaj. says UN failure is betrayal and sentence of death for people in Sreb.; thousands now fleeing to nearby Potacari where Dutch force remain even as Serbs continue shelling them; Serbs shell UN hq in Sara. in response to airstrikes; 5th Corps gains ground near Cojluk; Serb shells hit Cath. cathedral, residential area in Sara. July 12 Serbs expel 5,500 Mus. refugees from Potacari where up to 30,000 seek safety; Mladic comes into area at head of convoy of buses, trucks and personally takes charge of expulsion; women, children, and elderly told to abandon camp while males over 16 held for interrogation; UN decries 'cleansing' as 'outrageous', US says it is largest single instance in war; Izet. says govt. probably will not renew UN mandate in Nov., demands UN restore safe area with force; Fre. Pres. Chirac calls for mil. action to recapture Sreb. but he is not joined in this; Boutros- Ghali says UN force not capable of defending other safe areas, much less recover Sreb.; UN Sec. Coun. passes res. calling on Serbs to halt offensive but does not threaten ac- tion; Kara. comments 'Sreb. is our country'; Pres. Clinton presses UN to keep troops in Bos. even though they cannot carry out task; Bri. For. Sec. Malcolm Rifkind says 'with. must remain an option' but also calls on Milo. to pressure Bos. Serbs to 'behave in a more civilized fashion' July 13 Mus. refugees from Sreb. tell of hangings, torture, rapes as Serbs take over town, UN estimates 8,000 have arrived in Tuzla; NATO Gen. Sec. Claes warns that Zepa is now in danger due to art., tank, and shelling attacks; Serbs demand that Zepa and Gor. be demilitarized even as they continue to shell both it and Sara.; Fra. demands that Sreb. be retaken by force if necessary, Clinton comments 'this is a serious challenge to the UN mission'; Rus. criticizes Fre. proposal to retake Sreb. since it would involve the use of force; Dutch DM Joris Voorhoeve comments 'we have no auth. to demand any- thing...the Serbs have won' July 14 Serbs begin full attack on Zepa, shell 3 UN positions in enclave, move tanks and inf. on town, NATO jets fly overhead but do not at- tack; UN tells its force of 79 Ukr. pks not to resist; Fre. DM sets 48 hour deadline for Eur. allies to meet Fre. demand to use mil. force; 20,000 refugees from Sreb. now in Tuzla, continue to tell of atrocities July 15 Serbs press assault on Zepa trying to take heights around town, Serb leadership says it has moved into UN posts and disarmed Ukr. troops; UN says it has lost radio contact with its troops; in Gor. govt. troops seize 4 armored veh. and some weapons from Ukr. troops, Bos. govt. denies this saying it was the action of angry civilians; Fre. pushing plan to defend Gor., reportedly have given up on Zepa; Bri. drag feet on response by instead scheduling meeting of Contact Group for the 21st July 16 Serbs launch tank, inf. attacks on Zepa, overrun 3 UN pk posts, but halt later that evening once inside the enclave; NATO planes called in but not for strikes; Kara. comments 'the Mus. enclaves are not viable and must disappear, or we will do it by force', also says 'ethnic cleansing has never been part of our pol....what's happening is not ethnic cleansing. It's ethnic displace- ment--people who want to leave.'; Akashi says UN 'in a very difficult pos.' while Bildt says hard line against Serbs will only broaden war; Govt. says chief of Yugo. Gen. Staff, Momcilo Perisic, led at- tack on Sreb. with assistance from Yugo. art. and Arkan's troops; Fre. fire 30 mor. rds. at Serb positions after Serbs attack UN convoys on Igman rd.; July 17 Serbs detain Ukr. pks, threaten to kill them if NATO uses air strikes; Govt. troops con- tinue to resist; Serbs temp. halt infantry advances, but continue shelling, officials negotiate for evacuation of enclave's 16,000 Mus.; UN officials still unable to make con- tact with 4,000 males missing since fall of Sreb. (Serbs now in viol. of intl. law); AFP says as many as 15-20,000 may be missing; 4,000 soldiers, civs. make it through Serb lines to Tuzla July 18 Govt. troops in Zepa surround UN camp and say they will use Ukr. pks as shields unless NATO calls in air strikes (now both sides are us- ing same hostages); Serbs shell Zepa for 5th day, refuse offer of Izet. to negotiate evac. of women and children; Sacirbey says UN should either leave voluntarily or be shown the way out of Bos.; US Sen. considering leg. which would require US to break arms emb. in certain cases; Kara. warns that attempts to reinforce Gor. will mean a war against the Serbs; Cro. media report that Serb forces attacked Cro. troops and UN pks near Osijek and killed 2; Arkan denies that his troops are in Bos. due to Milo. but in- stead are voluntarily to defend Serbian people; Israeli PM Rabin says Jordan King Hussein called to suggest that Israel send troops to support Jordan's 2,000 troops who are in Bos. July 19 Serbs claim to have captured Zepa, but govt. troops are still fighting, civ. authorities may have worked out deal with Serbs; Bri., UN officials predict fall of Zepa; More accounts of Sreb. atrocities being reported to UN; Serb and Abdic forces attack across border in Bihac with art. and tanks; Kara. says govt. forces in Gor. should surrender immediately and that NATO aircraft will be shot down if they help the Mus.; Clinton asks Dole to delay vote on lifting arms emb. before meeting with allies in London July 20 Govt. troops still resisting Serb advances in Zepa despite some civ. leaders' surrender; When negotiations break down, Serbs shell city; US proposes to allies that Serbs be issued ultimatum to leave Gor. alone or face large-scale airstrikes including attacks on mil. targets, and pre-emptive strikes against missile and anti-aircraft sites, attacks to continue even if hostages are taken; Chirac still favors reinforcing Gor. with troops supplied by US hels. but agrees to accept US proposal also; 30,000 refugees now in Tuzla area with 6,600 at airport alone; Bos. and Kra. Serbs have now taken much terr. in W. Bihac; Cro. FM Granic says Zag. will take steps to protect the enclave; Art. shell hits Bos. pres. building while Bildt is visiting; Cro. Serbs take town of Sturlic causing 1,200 to flee while tanks, art. shell part of Bihac driving back govt. troops 3 km. July 21 US, allies in meeting in London warn Serbs they will carry out air strikes if Gor. attacked; Christopher says Sara. can be included without specific auth. if shelling continues, and that Rus. does not have a veto since these actions are already authorized by UN; allies agree to reinforce Sara. UN garrison, use part of rrf to open relief corridor to Sara.; Bri. DM Rifkind says some countries (Bri., Fra.) 'are concerned about the risk', while Kozyrev complains that West 'artificially restraining the pol. process'; also states that Rus. opposed to escalation of use of force by pks; More atrocities reported at Sreb. including Serbs posing as UN pks and machine-gunning 20-30 women and children, and possible massacre of up to 2,000 men by Serbs, others of rapes and killing of children; Bri. paper Ind. inter- views Serbs living across Drina from Sreb. who confirm that as many as 4,000 sol. may have been massacred; Pope John Paul II calls for 'defensive and proportionate' interven- tion in Bos. in a 'just war' to defend civs.; Yugo. parl. tells Bos. Serbs not to attack Gor. as this would endanger the peace pro., but Mladic accuses Mus. of aggression and threatens that 'by autumn we will occupy Zepa, Gor., Bihac, and, if need be, even Sara. and end this war'; 14 Ger. Tornado fighter-bombers arrive in N. Italy for rrf support; Serbs shell Sara. wounding 10 in- cluding 4 children, 5 children killed by Serb attack in Bihac, 12,000 flee homes; Israel and Jordan launch jt. medical relief supply effort for Bos. Mus.; Bildt says he has reached deal with Bel. on recogni- tion of Bos., but US says it is not con- clusive July 22 Serbs fire on convoy killing 1 Fre. pk, also fire rockets at UN compound killing another Fre. pk, and shell Zepa; Tudj., Izet. meet in Split with large delegations including US amb. to Cro., Galbraith, Izet. asks for urgent mil. help which Tudj. promises July 23 Fre. and Bri. members of rrf deployed to Sara. area to protect convoy road after pre- vious day's Serb shelling; US admin. offi- cials say Fra. launched 2 air strike with 3 Mirage fighters against Pale in retaliation for deaths of Fre. pks (apparently 1st raid hits home of someone close to Kara.); Serbs press assaults on Zepa and Bihac, shell Sara. killing 6 wounding 35, while UN warns that Bihac is the largest Serb offensive in Bos. and that Serbs are preparing for major battle for city; Tudjman offers to send emer. mil. aid to Bihac, while Granic says fall of Bihac will affect his country's 'vital ints.'; UN feels this is prelude to Cro. launching offensive against Kra. July 24 Boutros-Ghali contends that airstrikes must be authorized by him, while US says no; confusion continues on rules for airstrikes; Pale again reported rocked by explosions; 300 Bri. and 500 Fre. soldiers move onto Mt. Igman to est. art., light tank positions; Serb shelling wounds 9 in Sara., UN says Bos. and Kra. Serbs have taken 30 sq. miles in 6-day offensive in Bihac which avoids the UN safe area; UN human rts. envoy Mazowiecki accuses Serbs in Sreb. of atrocities, calls findings evidence of 'barbarism', while UN spokesman Chris Gunness says Serb 'actions are an affront to the values of all civ. people'; Kozyrev in Bel. for meeting with Milo., brings Churkin; Milo. condemns intl. 'threats... and mil. action' aimed at Bos. Serbs July 25 Govt. denies Zepa has fallen, but civ. auth. have made agreement with Serbs to evac. women, children, and elderly, and 21 buses of people leave area for Kladanj; Mazol- wiecki says 7,000 missing from Sreb., calls situation 'barbarism'; Kra. forces have reached edge of Bihac safe area, as Serbs try to split enclave in two, while UN SC warns them not to continue; UN War Crimes Trib. formally charges Kara., Mladic, Martic, 21 others with crimes against hum. for 'atrocities perpetrated against the civ. pop. throughout BH, for the sniping campaign against civ. in Sara., and for the taking of UN pks as hostages and their use as human shields'; NATO amb. appeal to Boutros-Ghali to devolve airstrike decisions to mil. commanders in Bos.; Cro. forces attacking Serbs in Bihac pocket, Gen. Atif Dudakovic says 30,000 Serbs/Mus. are on the off. in area; Malaysian PM Mohamad says he is 'disgusted' with West's inaction says he is willing to face sanctions to ship arms to Bos. govt., while Saudi King Fahd calls on UN to lift emb. July 26 1,400 Zepa refugees begin arriving in Kla- danj, men aged 16-60 detained by Serbs or in hiding; UN neg. with Serbs for mens' safety; Boutros-Ghali gives airstrike auth. to mil. commander Gen. Bernard Jan- vier bypassing Akashi; NATO agrees on graduate escalation campaign of airstrikes if Gor. attacked or threatened, also plans to protect Bihac, Sara. but these are not yet approved; Serbs intensify attacks in Bihac and 8,000 flee advance, Bihac Mayor Mersud Ferizovic says 25,000 Serbs in- volved, and 58 civs. killed, 180 wounded in recent days; US Sen. votes 69-29 to end arms emb. in 12 weeks after Bos. calls for UN forces to leave, but also gives Clinton 30-day waiver if more time is needed, and also requires him to go to Sec. Coun. to seek full removal of emb.; Mladic calls on Gor. to surrender; Abdic proclaims 'Rep. of West Bos.' July 27 Silajdzic calls US Sen. action 'a great victory of justice and prin...We are very grateful for this' and predicts other countries will do the same; Mladic says this will not effect the war since Bos. already 'saturated' with weapons; cargo plane delivers supplies to govt. forces in Bihac but UN, NATO say they don't know whose plane it is; Serbs say last 5,000 evacuated from Zepa, refugees are not mentioning atrocities as with Sreb.; HVO forces advancing along Tomislavgrad- Grahovo line, and in Livno region, now within 4 km. of Glamoc and 8 km. from Gra- hovo; 250 Serbs flee to Knin, while Mus. refugees in north now number 8,000 in Bihac; Mazowiecki resigns position as UN special rapporteur for human rts. citing 'lack of consistency and courage displayed by the intl. comm. and its leaders'; Serbs shell Sara. killing 2, also Mostar and Gor. (killing 1 civ.); Serb tank fires on UN post in Krupac (S. flank of Mt. Igman) wounding Fre. pk; Aux. Bishop of Sara. Pero Sudar calls on West to destroy Serb stockpiles of wea., ammu., and mil. infrastructure July 28 Croat, HVO forces attack Serb forces in Kra. border area cutting Serb supply line and taking town of Grahovo which controls it; Glamoc also taken and 20,000 reported to have fled area; Bos. Serbs declare gen. mobilization of men 18-60 for all areas of Serb-held terr.; UN says war in danger of being widened as Croats mass thousands of troops along border, move into Livno Valley in effort to retake Kra.; UN spokesman says Croats have taken 100 sq. miles of terr. in Grahovo area; Bihac area but not town being shelled by Serbs so as to keep NATO pressure off, UN reports 1,000 exp. in 1 hr. alone in NW; Kra. Serb parl. elects Babic PM; Zadar airport closed, Cro. highway shut off as mil. supplies moved to front; Dutch paper accuses Dutch UNPROFOR comm. of cutting deal w/ Serbs allowing his men to leave Sreb. in exchange for Mus. men between 17-60 being arrested and 'debriefed'; NY Times says Zepa defenders were hit with chemical agent BZ which is banned by intl. agreement; buses from Bel. being used to transport Mus. refs. out of Zepa July 29 Tudj. warns Serbs to neg. or be reincor- porated into Cro. by force, meets with Akashi but no resolution achieved; Kara. orders gens. to use 'all necessary mea- sures' to retake Grahovo, Glamoc; Kra. serbs say they will fire missiles at Cro. coastal cities if attack comes; BBC reports that Zepa burned and looted, Mus. civ. negotiator detained and mil. comm. has disappeared; Mladic tells UN he ordered execution of Zepa mil. comm. Avdo Palic who had successfully ambushed Serb forces 3 yrs. earlier July 30 Tudj. rejects 6-pt. agreement worked out by Kra. Serbs, Akashi as 'unacceptable', says UNCRO must be deployed on all of Cro. frontiers esp. since new troops coming in- to the country across Danube, and that Kra. must be reintegrated into Cro.; UN reports Cro. troops continuing to mass a- long edge of Kra.; Mladic says Cro. 'will pay dearly' for attacks, but Yu go. pres. Lilic only calls for neg. without pre-conditions, but also for lifting of sanctions; Bel. condemns Cro. for its 'aggressive behavior'; Kra. Serbs reported to be leaving Bihac to help defend Knin; Fre. group 'Doctors of the World' says mil.-age men of both Sreb. and Zepa have 'completely disappeared'; 4 Cro. brigades mobilized in Zag. with almost all men of mil. age being assigned to units July 31 More fighting in Bihac as Serbs attack govt. forces less than 24 hrs. after promising Akashi they would not do so in border area; Advisor to Cro. FM says 'Bihac is of vital strategic importance to Cro.', and that mil. intervention legal due to mil. alliance be- tweem Cro. and Bos.; Cro. forces poised to attack at 4 locations and has 'blocking force' in E. Slavonia to slow Serb resupply effort, but no signs of Bos. Serbs sending troops or material to assist Kra.; Bos. govt. and Cro. forces pushing west and north to cut 2 Serb supply roads between Bos. Serbs and Kra. Aug. 1 NATO agrees to extend airthreat strike to other safe-areas, including all forces which attack safe areas (Kra. Serbs, Abdic forces); UN Gen. Janvier begins concentrating UNPROFOR forces to prevent Serb retaliation against them, US sending more radar jamming planes, and NATO Sec. Gen. Willy Claes to ask Tudj. to authorize use of Cro. airspace in NATO strikes; 3 Serb jets fire rockets at Cro. positions near border, shell outskirts of Gospic; nearby Otocac under gen. alert; Kara., Martic appeal to Milo. to send them aid in the face of impending Cro. attack, but Milo. has already sent Mladic, Izet. letters calling for peace, saying fighting would only result in 'enormous human...losses'; US Asst. Sec. of State for Human Rts. John Shattuck interviews refugees in Tuzla, Zenica, says reports of mass executions credible; US House of Reps. votes to lift arms emb. by vote of 298-128, Clinton admin. says they might still be able to sustain veto; Rus. protests Cro. attacks in Kra., says this could lead to esc. of viol. Aug. 2 US amb. to Cro. Galbraith meets secretly in Bel. with Kra. PM Milan Babic who ap- parently agrees to key Cro. demands includ- ing neg. reintegration of Kra. to Cro.; Israeli TV reports that sophisticated Is- raeli weapons are being sold to Serbia by Israeli mil. with Fre. dealers Aug. 3 UN est. Cro. has 100,000 mobilized; Serbs fire missiles at Gospic, Otacac, also Dub. where 3 killed, 3 wounded; Serbs say they will continue to shell Dub. unless Croats stop shelling Drvar (W. Bos.); Both sides sending mid-level del. to Geneva for talks with Stoltenberg; Croat troops breach Kra. Serb lines in at least 30 places, planes destroy Celavac radio-tv stations, other pts.; UNCRO says Cro. army had notified them of operation and that Canadian com- manders had passed the info. on to Kra. Serbs; Serb shelling of Mostar over last 2 days kills 5; last 70 Fre. pks pull out of Zepa; US amb. Galbraith meets with Tudj. near Zag., appeals for peace, but 2 hours later Serbs fire rockets at Dubrovnik; Silajdzic gives letter of resignation to parl. in dispute with ruling Party of Dem. Action (Mus. party) over inefficiency, corruption Aug. 4 Cro. govt. says Knin surrounded, troops re- ported to be within several miles of city ctr., UN estimates 1,500-1,800 shells have fallen on city by evening of this day; Serb lines penetrated in as many as 30 places but claims cannot be ind. confirmed as UN forces are caught in crossfire and comm. is minimal; UN comm. in Knin requests air- strikes against those shooting at UN troops (1 Dutch pk killed, 2 Pol. pks wounded) but Janvier only considering this; Croat planes attack UN post at Gospic (C. Cro.), threaten to do so again if UN doesn't with- draw, Cro. tanks attack Serb positions in area; NATO planes fire at 2 Serb missiles at radar site after SAMs determined to be threatening planes; Town of Petrinja reclaimed by Croats, 760 Serbs said to be 'neutralized', along with Serb missile sys- tem and destruction of Serb comm. ctr. and brigade hq; Serbs respond with fiercer resistance than Croats expect even as Cro. FM Granic claims that entire oper. will be done in 1 week and 'artificial Kra. Serb regime will collapse immediately'; 15 rockets fired at Karlovac, 1 missile hits Zag. sub.; Clinton expresses only 'concern' about war spreading, says off. 'launched in response to the Serb attack on Bihac' while Perry says with luck 'the Cro. will have limited obj. and will succeed in these obj., in keeping the Kra. Serbs out of the Bihac fighting'; Dole blames attack on failure of UN policy; Rus. says nations issueing weak protests are really supporting Croats; Kara. demotes Mladic from supreme mil. comm. to advisor while Kara. takes on mil. role, blames Mladic for Cro. capture of Glamoc, Grahovo Aug. 5 Croats take Knin, UN asked to help evacuate 32,000 civs.; Cro. troops link up with Bos. govt. troops at Trzacke Rastele near border relieving seige of Bihac; Bos. govt. troops reported to have crossed into Cro. to aid Cro. army; UN protests Cro. attack saying it violates intl. law due to civ. casualties, and that Cro. has targeted UN pks, and Rus. For. Min. condemns attack saying the sit. was not properly assessed by Zag.; 2 Czech pks killed near Gospic, 2 others wounded; 40 manned UN posts taken, 200 pks briefly detained by Cro.; Serb resistance crumbles as Gracac, Lovinac, Ljubova, and 280 sq. miles of Kra. fall; Serbs fire art. shells into E. Cro. cities; Cro. govt. leaves 2 corridors open for Serbs to flee into Bos.; Kara. tries to appoint Mladic coordinator of operations with Kra. Aug. 6 Croats capture Petrinja, Slunj, Cetingrad, Plitvice, while tens of thousands of Serb refugees flee towards Banja Luka; Tudjman visits area, says victories ensure sec. of Cro. for centuries; 2 Serb tank companies holding out near Karlovac; Cro. army blocking UN bases preventing monitoring; Den., UN protest Cro. use of 7 Dan. pks as human shields in front of advancing troops, Cro. denies incident; Sacirbey says Silaj. asked to rescind his resignation; Bos. Serb parl. meets in BL to support Kara. even as 18 top generals back Mladic; Milo. tells Intl. Herald-Tribune calls Cro. 'the biggest threat to peace in the Balkans', calls on intl. community to 'justly' take action Aug. 7 Serbia sends tanks, troops to E. Slavonia in show of force, declare war alert and ex- change art. fire with Croats at Osijek; UN says 50,000 refs. trapped by new fighting in Kra., UN now claims that 150,000-200,000 are refs. from fighting, while EU monitors say none of them are being recruited to fight for Bos. Serbs; Cf collapses after Cro. govt. says Bos. Serb jets bomb Cro. cities (Sisak, Zupanja, Pozega, Daruvar, Novska Grahovica, Podravska, Slatina, Mackovac, Savski Bok) killing 2, wounding 11; 6,000 Serbs said to be resisting near Topusko, 5 wounded in Kar- lovac by Serb rocket; Cro. AA fire shoots down 2 Serb 'Eagle' aircraft; Cro. DM Susak says Kra. Serb holdouts agree to surrender, that they will be allowed to leave for Bos. or Serbia if they leave weapons, but those suspected of war crimes to be detained; Susak also says war could widen as Cro. will not renounce claims to E. Sla. but that Cro. is demobilizing; Kara., VP Bil- jana Plavsic say Milo. responsible for loss of Knin, while Serbia calls for sanc- tions against Cro., calls their attack 'shameless aggression'; 5th Corps enters Vel. Kla., all fighting ceases as Abdic troops surrender; Yeltsin invites Milo., Tudj. to Moscow for peace talks, but Cro. says no decision has been made; US State Dept. says former US generals working for Va. based Mil. Prof. Resources, Inc. helping Cro. army to democratize; Mladic appoints Greek lawyer Alexandros Lykourezos to defend him at Intl. Criminal Tribunal at the Hague Aug. 8 5 refs. killed when escape rt. bombed by Cro. jets on Bos. side of border, Cro. denies it; UN estimates 15,000 refs. near Dvor trapped by fighting as well as 40,000 more on way to Bos.; Red Cross to begin bringing relief supplies into Banja Luka airport, while first relief convoy since May reaches Bihac, and that govt. forces have burned 6 Serb villages, possibly shot 5 elderly Serbs; Cro. troops restricting ref. access to prevent roughly 10,000 Kra. sol. from entering Bos., while Bos. Serbs have set up court martial in BL and sentenced 20 for leaving Knin, Benkovac battlefields; Martic appears on Bos. Serb TV supposedly from Kra. town of Srb, appeals to all Serbs to defend the fatherland; UN warns that Serbs in Banja Luka area carrying out another wave of ethnic cleansing while Newsday reports Sreb. refs. say Mladic pledged 'it is going to be a 'meze' (a long, delectable feast). There will be blood up to your knees', and told his troops to 'enjoy' the best-look- ing women, and that 'for every one of mine, 1,000 of yours are going to die'; Serbian Orthodox Church says Serbian, Mont. rep. govts. no longer 'fit' to lead Serbian nation Aug. 9 Cro. civs. attacking convoys of fleeing Serb refs. near Sisak, stoning some, beat- ing others; UN reports troops wearing Bos. govt. uniforms kill 5 elderly, possibly mentally retarded, Serbs in village on border; Dan. pks report Cro. planes drop bombs on ref. column near Dvor; Clinton admin. accuses Bos. Serbs of human rts. viols. based on eyewitness accounts, says it has spy photo evidence suggesting mass grave near Sreb., calls for intl. war crimes investigation; also says Cro. off. creates 'additional cause for concern', but Amb. Galbraith says Bri. and Fre. wrong in accusing Zag. of ethnic cleansing; Tudj. refuses talks in Mos. unless Izet. allowed to participate (probably to defuse spec. that he and Milo. will cut deal on Bos.), Yelt. agrees to invite Izet.; Yelt., in interview, says war crimes accusations against Kara., Mladic 'unjust' since this is civil war and neither side is 'right' or guilty'; Kara. writes letter to Milo. accusing him of turning his back on Kra. and being a traitor to all Serbs, and Milo. responds that problem lies with Kara. and Kra. leadership refusing to ac- cept peace initiatives; Le Figaro says Serbs must no longer be viewed as aggressors and Mus., Croats as victims; 10,000 demonstrate in Bel. against Milo. Aug. 10 US, Rus. both proposing new peace initia- tives; UN says it will begin withdrawing most of 12,400 pks in Cro. within days since it no longer has a mandate; 6 Serb shells fired into Bihac; 100 Cro. refs. from Voj. region of Sid forced out to Cro. after Kra. Serbs arrive; CIA reports that more than 3,000 non-Serb settlements in Serb-held terr. in Bos. burned or destroyed to prevent returns, and now estimate 1.3 mil. displaced in due to ethnic cleansing; TANJUG says thousands of Kra. refs. to be resettled in Kosovo; Silajdzic withdraws resignation but complains that too much power is in Izet.'s hands; Yugo. continues to mobilize troops near border with Cro. Aug. 11 Abdic reported under house arrest in Zag.; King Fahd of Saudi Arabia donates $13 mil. to Bos. Mus. in start of fund-raising cam- paign there; Govt. troops massing near Donji Vakuf, Cro. forces doing same around Dub.; Kara. backs off efforts to reorg. mil. com. at Mladic's expense; UN says tensions de- clining near E. Sla.; Clinton vetoes Cong. bill on lifting arms emb. (Sen. vote, 69-29; House, 298-128) Aug. 12 Cro. forces launch new attack on Serbs near Dub., Serbs fleeing from Trebinje inside Bos.; Bos. govt. forces pushing towards Donji Vakuf, Bosanska Krupa, and Prijedor with Bos. Cro. forces providing some art. support (1,300 exp. in 3 hr period); Rus. sends 90 tons of food, medicine to Bel. for refs., says it is not in viol. of emb. Aug. 13 Heaviest art. exchanges near Dub. since '91; Bos. govt. troops slow advance towards Don- ji Vakuf, Cro. troops do not appear to be helping; Clinton admin. offers Serbs chance to make changes in Contact Group map once neg. begin; Izet. says Gor. not to be traded Aug. 14 Cro. troops trying to push across Bos. bor- der near Dub. but making little progress, Serb art. attacks continue while Croats shell Trebinje; Bos. govt. troops renew their attack on Donji Vakuf; Serb police give up trying to keep out mil.-age men with ref. from Kra. as over 130,000 now fleeing into Serbia; 600-1,000 more Croats driven out of Banja Luka to Davor; 670 Kra. Serb refs. arrive in Kos. for resettlement, and 450 in Mont.; Martic calls for all Cro. Serbs to return home to fight; US Def. Dept. says 2 of 4 $2 mil.-each 'Predator' spy drones lost over Bos., 1 due to motor failure, the other possibly shot down (based at Gjader, N. Alb.); Kara., Mladic reportedly both saying the other is 'crazy'; Rus. For. Min. now says lifting sanctions unilaterally not being considered Aug. 15 UN says most of remaining 15,000 Croats in Banja Luka area will be forced out by an organized campaign within next several days; 900 Croats cross Sava from Bos. to Cro.; 370 Croats expelled from homes in N. Serbia being resettled in E. Cro. while 800 Serbs refuse resettlement in Kosovo; refs. being refused entry to Bel.; Kara. says he is not causing refs., but they are leaving to be reunited with families; Holbrooke meets with Cro. FM Granic and Bos. FM Sacirbey on new plan for division of Bos., but Bos. amb. to Bri. Filipovic says 'it has no chance at all'; Cro. army comm. in-chief Gen. Zvon- imir Cervenko tours Dub. after Serb shelling, says 'I will destroy their (Serbs) towns, not just Trebinje (source of shelling), but all of them - reduce them to a state they cannot imagine...they know this'; 3,000-man Cro. 'Puma' brig. arrived in Dub. over weekend; Hard-line Yugo. FM Vladislav Jovanovic removed, replaced by another Milo. ally, Milan Milutinovic Aug. 16 Cro. forces advancing against Serbs around Drvar in W. BH, more Serbs fleeing Trebinje in anticipation of Cro. attack; fighting continues for Donji Vakuf; Holbrooke meets with Tudj. over plan to redraw borders according to ethnic lines, Bildt meets with Serbs Jovan Zametica, Momcilo Krajisnik; Serbs still expelling Mus., Cro. from BL; Span. FM Javier Solana's car hit as it enters Sara., FM unhurt; Medicine without Frontiers says of Serb expulsions of Croats from BL that 'the transport of cattle is done better than this'; 700 refs. from Kra. now in Mont., 2,000 in Kosovo; Yugo. PM Kontic asks Den. to unfreeze its assets so they can be used for humanitarian aid Aug. 17 Holbrooke meets with Milo. on new peace plan calls talks 'extremely useful', Milo. report- ed to be generally favorable to it; Bos. Serb Momcilo Krajisnik says plan would allow Serbs access to Adriatic and would give them wider links between east and west Serb terr.; Mladic sends fax to news agencies saying Kara. 'is probably aware that he has lost the support of the main pillars of our soc., the people and the army' Aug. 18 Cro. claims to have captured Drvar (across border in Bos.)and destroyed elite Pod- rinjska Brigade, Serbs deny capture; 10,000 Cro. troops massing near Dub.; 1 killed, 14 wounded as rifle grenade hits bus in Sara.; UN pks begin withdrawal from Gor. as UN claims NATO can protect city from the air, Serbs refuse to let 90 Ukr. pks leave unless they take all of their weapons with them; Holbrooke holds talks with both Milo. and Tudj.; Silajdzic says peace plan does not include land swap Cro. DM Gojko Susak says his country will- ing to help other countries ship weapons to Bos. if asked to do so, states 'Cro. will do everything it can for Bos. to be liberated.'; Izet. shakes up command struc- ture of army, esp. at corps level; Abdic reported to be under arrest in Zag. Palace Hotel; Cro. says it expects Serbs to ex- pel up to 20,000 Bos. Croats and that 4,769 have already arrived from BL area, another 406 from Srijem; 350 Mus. expelled by Serbs to Travnik Aug. 19 US negs. Dep. Ass. Sec. of State Robert Frasure, Dep. Ass. Sec. of Def. Joseph Kruzel, and NSC aide Col. Samuel Drew killed when their APC plunges off Mt. Igman road, Kara. offers condolences; Christian Science Monitor reporter says he has found evidence in Sreb. of bones and ammunition near supposed mass grave site; Art. exchanges continue in Dub. area, Serbs shell Osijek killing 1, wounding 6; Bos. Serb art. hits Gor. killing 3 children; Serbs now demanding $1,200 in Ger. marks from those they expel around BL Aug. 21 UN protests to Yugo. govt. about their de- porting of 1,000 mil. age men back to Serb- held Bos. in previous week; new evidence of Cro. army having killed civs., burned and looted Serb homes; UN appeals to Zag. not to return 25,000 Mus. refs. loyal to Abdic to Bihac area, and accuses Zag. of not ad- mitting Mus. refs. from BL area; Serbs reported building up in Dub. area; Tudj. urges Rus. pres. envoy Aleksandr Zotov to persuade Serbia to rec. Cro.; Total number of Kra. Serbs in Yugo. now 154,079 (accord- ing to BETA) with 83,000 in Voj. Aug. 22 Govt. fires 14 mortar rds. at Serb ammu. factory in Vogosca (Sara. sub.), killing 2 civs., Serbs retaliate by shelling Sara. after 12 more rds. fired killing 6, wound- ing 38 in city; Sacirbey accuses UN of abandoning Gor.; Kara. tells Cro. that if they evacuate area around Trebinje, Serbs will grant peace accord, also calls for 30 kilos. of Prevlaka peninsula (down to Bay of Kotor in Mont.) being turned over to Serbs otherwise fighting to continue; Serbs fire on UN observation post in Sara. wound- ing 6 pks and other civs., rrf returns fire; Cro. cultural ctr. opens in Sara.; Serbs shell Tuzla airbase where refs. are being housed; Cro. says 11,782 refs. of ethnic cleansing in BL have arrived between 8-14 and 8-24; Serbian army fires mortars at Alb. neighborhoods in Urosevac; Yugo. of- ficials now say 5,000 Serbian refs. are in Kos., another 7,000 expected, but 50 have already left Prizren for Serbia Aug. 23 Kara. says 'any solution below 70% of the terr. is painful for us, but any one below 64% - which we have according to land registers - is unjust'; Clinton admin names Robert Owen to head up new neg. team which includes Brig. Gen. Donald Kerrick, James Pardew (Def. Dept.), and Chris. Hill (State Dept.); reports about peace plan say Bos. govt. must give up Zepa and Sreb.; 58 Ukr. pks pull out of Gor. and govt. troops reportedly demanding $13,350 from them for rent and envir. damage; Cro. DM Susak says Cro. could push Serbs out of E. Sla., and that his govt. will no longer tolerate shelling of Dub.; Serbs in Trebinje now preventing everyone from leaving area with- out special permission; Cath. bishop in BL says Serbs dynamited 43rd church in area on Aug. 19 Aug. 24 Bos. army troops attack Bri. pks in Gor. as they prepare to leave, 2 Bos. killed; Rus. envoy Zotov meets in Bel. with Milo. Aug. 25 Bri. pks kill 2 govt. soldiers in Gor. after 30 attempt to take supplies from Bri. before their scheduled pullout; 3 Bri. convoys with 76 pks pull out and head for Serbia; Croatia signs cf with E. Slavonia Serbs; Cro. FM Granic denies charges Cro. troops have systematically destroyed Serb property, rejects Serb calls for terr. exchange in S. Cro.; 700 Serbs still holed up in UN hq in Knin as Cro. wants to examine 61 they suspect of being war criminals; Sacirbey says US peace plan has no provisions for punishing Serbs if they reject proposal; Krajisnik says Bildt has given Serbs 'guarantees that there will be two separate states with compact terr. within the for- mer BH (Cro., Bos. auth. will not meet with Bildt); EU administrator of Mostar threatens to withdraw EU police force un- less Cro., Mus. unify their police forces, accuses Croats of blockading Mus.; Yugo. trade min. says Rus. planning to resume deliveries of gas to Yugo. Aug. 26 Croats being resettled in Kra. area with govt. assistance, reported not to be paying for former Serb homes; 3 Yugo. soldiers kill Albanian in Kos.; Rail line between Zag. and Split reopened for first time in 4 yrs.; Tudj. says of Serbs who fled they 'disappeared ignominiously, as if they had never populated this land. We urged them to stay, but they didn't listen to us and, well, bon voyage.' Aug. 27 Clinton admin. backs away from plan to send 25,000 troops to Bos. to help enforce peace agreement, Holbrooke says smaller force may be used as part of NATO contingent in event of peace agreement, and that NATO airstrikes may be used if Serbs continue to resist peace Aug. 28 Serbs shell central Sara. market killing 37, wounding 80, US blames Serbs for at- tack and calls on UN and NATO to respond militarily; Kosevo hosp. hit by shell after attack; Holbrooke in Paris for talks and Kara. comments that the 'Amer. initia- tive takes account of the minimum ints. of the Serbian side'; Bos. Serb official Miro- slav Toholj calls shelling 'a classic act of Islamic terrorism'; Silajdzic calls for NATO airstrikes and suspension of peace talks until 'the obligations and role of NATO are clarified', but Izet. goes to Paris for talks anyway; Chirac said to be ready to propose demilitarization of Sara. but govt. opposes this; Controversy continues in Neth. over whether Dutch pks allowed civ. massacres in Sreb.; 565 Croats expelled from Voj. to Cro., while 300 cross Sava River from Srbac to Davor; more reports of pressganging by Serbian auth. of refs. for mil. service in E. Sla. Aug. 29 Kara. accuses Bos. govt. of staging 'a massacre of its own pop. to sabotage the peace process', but UN says it has 'con- cluded beyond all reasonable doubt' Serbs were responsible; Kara. sends letter to Carter calling for 'comprehensive peace agreement' based on US initiative, US says it is encouraged by Kara. proposal but this would not deter NATO strikes in retaliation for previous day's attack; Kara. later agrees to talks in Bel. and to coor. neg. strategy with Bel.; Yugo. soldier killed in Kos. by armed group which flees into Alb. Aug. 30 NATO planes begin attacks on Serb positions in pre-dawn hours, continue throughout the day; 60 planes (mostly Amer.) launch strikes on air def. radar installations, SAM bat- teries, comm. facilities, and ammu. fac- tories, dumps; RRF fires at least 1,000 art. rounds at Serb positions in support; NATO Sec. Gen. Claes, UN comm. Janvier, and Adm. Smith all approve attacks, Claes saying they will intensify if Serbs don't remove heavy weapons from 12 mile exc. zone. and if they don't stop threatening Tuzla, Gor.; 5 EU monitors killed in Serb-held sub. by shell; 1 Fre. plane shot down; Intl. Her. Tribune says US, Fre., and Bri. commandos behind Serb lines had been identifying tar- gets for several months Kara. calls attacks 'a moral disaster for the West and NATO' that 'may trigger a third world war'; Mladic rejects UN demands saying 'we will not be the first to fire, but we will re- spond to every attack'; Yeltsin calls air- strikes 'a cruel bombardment', Clinton says he 'strongly support(s) this operation' and that it is 'an appropriate and indeed a nec. response to the shelling of Sara.'; Dole says he will postpone attempt at overriding Clinton arms emb. veto, but that 'it should have happened a year ago or two'; Bri. muted in their support of attacks; Cro. govt. says Oper. Storm included 402 Serb sol., 116 Serb civs., 211 Cro. sol., and 42 Cro. civs. and that Cro. has identified 217 Serb re- bels it want to try as war criminals; Hol. holds 4 hrs. of talks w/ Milo. in Bel. Aug. 31 NATO attacks continue, although more limited due to cloud cover; Mladic says he is willing to remove guns around Sara., and that 'it is time to talk about peace, even after this dreadful bombing'; Holbrooke meets for 2nd day with Milo., and with Tudj. and Sacirbey in Zag.; Clinton says NATO attacks 'the right response to savagery'