YUGOSLAV EVENTS CHRONOLOGY SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1995 Sept. 1 State Dept. announces Bos. Serbs have agreed to talks in Geneva next week on allowing ethnic confederations within existing states, and that Milo. will take part in neg.; NATO planes continue bombing Serbs in morning but suspended to allow for negotiations w/ Serbs; Claes says attacks to resume unless Serbs withdraw heavy weapons, and that 'we are ready to maintain and enhance our attacks'; UN says not many of 300 Serb art. pieces have been destroyed; Wash. to send 10 more planes to assist in strikes; Fighting around Bihac, UN counts 300+ exp. after Serbs launch at- tack on town; 5 EU monitors reported dead taken by Serbs to Visegrad and released to Zag. Sept. 2 NATO suspends air strikes, but Mladic, in 14- hour meeting with Janvier, refuses UN demands to remove guns around Sara. unless Bos. govt. also removes theirs; 7 wounded in rocket-pro- pelled attack in Sara. sub. by Serbs, Fre. pks fire 24 rds. in response; Janvier meets with Mladic for 13 hrs. beginning previous night, Mladic tries to set conditions for removal of weapons; Silajdzic warns Bos. may pull out of Gen. talks if NATO, UN compromise with Serbs Sept. 3 NATO warns Serbs to lift Sara. seige or face more bombing by Mon. night (4th); Holbrooke calls Mladic reply to ultimatum insulting, says 'this bombing package, it has only just begun' and 'the problem is Mladic'; UN opens Mt. Igman road to private traffic and brings aid convoy into city; NATO planes fly over Sara. but do not renew attacks, while Sacirbey charges NATO has 'let their finger slip off the trigger'; Serbs attacking in w. Bos. to widen supply corridor to Serbia, shell Gradacac Sept. 4 Bombing deadline passes with no new NATO ac- tion; Mladic sends letter to UN stating 'no- body, not even myself, has the right to order a withdrawal. This is a pol. question, not in the jurisdiction of generals', while Kara. aide Nikola Koljevic sends letter saying they have accepted NATO demand; Greece and Mac. agree to resume neg. on flag, name is- sues Sept. 5 NATO launches hour-long attacks in response to Bos. Serb intransigence, UN spokesman says they 'will go on until the Serbs comply with our demands'; attacks occur after NATO, UN conclude Serbs not pulling back weapons as demanded; Mladic says on TV 'the more they bomb us, the stronger we are', and Serb art. hits Sara. wounding several; Previous at- tacks now estimated to have destroyed 10% of art. positions, 15% of anti-aircraft systems, and 40% of comm. network; UN War Crimes Trib. investigating Cro. actions in Kra. and UN says 50 bodies found in area and Orthodox Churches possibly destroyed/desecrated; Serbs continue deportations of Mus., Croats; Hol. in Bel. for meeting with Milo. who pro- tests air attacks Sept. 6 Serbs refuse to move heavy wea. causing NATO to renew bombing around Sara. (Luka- vica, Hadzick), Cajnice and Foca (E. Bos.), and Kalinovik and Nevesinje (S. Bos.); Kara. claims that wea. cannot be withdrawn as this will leave civs. unprotected ('They are bom- barding us so terribly that it hasn't been seen since the second World War in Eur., and it can't be justified by any reasons'); also says he is still in charge and that Mladic takes his orders, and that Sara. 'was once entirely Serbian'; RRF fires 18 105mm 155mm shells at Serb mortar firing on Mt. Igman rd.; Adm. Leighton Smith shows video of hit Mt. Jahorina radar complex but comments that Serb art. difficult to target, not as many targets hit as he would like; Yelt. warns that Rus. may have to aid Serbs Sept. 7 NATO strikes continue hitting ammo. dumps (in Pale) and mil. base at Lukavica (2nd time); Hol. says FMs talks will cover con. issues, but not territorial; Yugo. tells UN that NATO strikes jeopardize peace proc.; UN Sec. Coun. condemns Cro. for exodus of 150,000 Serbs and human rts. viol. against Serbs, also condemns Bos. Serbs for not al- lowing access to Mus. prisoners Sept. 8 Serbs fire aa missile at NATO jet prompting rrf to fire 40 art. shells in; Serbs say 10 patients, hosp. staff killed, 22 wounded due to rrf shelling; Yeltsin at first press conf. in year condemns attacks, says Rus. may reconsider expansion of NATO and blames for. min. for failures, hints at changing Kozyrev, while Christopher says Rus. has stake in peace being achieved; FMs of Cro. Bos., and Serbia reach agreement preserving Bos. sov., but giving Serbs their own cons. and undefined rt. of assoc. with Serb.; refs. would be allowed to return to their homes or be compensated for losses, and freedom of movement would be guaranteed, but issue of E. Slavonia still unresolved Sept. 9 More NATO strikes against Lukavica barracks, Serb. air def. systems, bridges in E. Bos.; Cro. threatens mil. action against E. Sla. unless sol. is found 'within 2 or 3 months'; Clin. admin. has proposed that Serbia would retain control for present but Cro. would regain terr.; Rus. Duma votes 258-2 in non- binding res. that Kozyrev be fired for lack of Rus. dip. successes, calls on Yelt. to suspend part. in NATO PfP program Sept. 10 NATO uses tomahawk cruise missiles against 10 Serb radio, comm. sites at Lisina (near Banja Luka), jets hitting same targets; Pentagon considering using F-117 Stealth bombers, but Italy balking at this; both Fra. and Italy concerned about esc. of attacks; UN says they have seen some Serb movement NE of Sara. but don't know what it means; Mladic says wea. will not be re- moved since they are nec. to protect civs. Sept. 11 More ammo. dumps in SE hit; Ass. Rus. FM Churkin says about use of cruise missiles 'we are very worried that this will get out of hand'; NATO officials, Pent. differ on effectiveness of missile use with Pent. expressing disappointment; Bos. Serbs say more attacks could threaten peace talks, Kara. calling them a declaration of war; Serb auth. restricting Red Cross access to Banja Luka and can't confirm Serbs accusa- tions of civ. casualties; Bos. Cro. forces take mt. pass of Mliniste and peaks of Demirovac and Vitorog, govt. forces advanc- ing Mt. Ozren area and take town of Voguca connecting Tuzla and Zenica Sept. 12 NATO continues bombing ammo. dumps at Vogosca (near Sara.) in campaign to damage mil. infrastructure; Option 3 being considered (attacks on power plants, trans., etc.; UN says supplied now getting through to Sara. but that Serb threat to city remains; Rus. calls attacks 'genocide', says it will re- lease hum. aid to Bos. Serbs and that at- tack is part of US plan for world domina- tion; Bos. govt. forces take Donji Vakuf while Croats capture Sipovo, and Drvar Sept. 13 Rocket-propelled gren. fired at US emb. in Mos., speculation that it is in response to NATO bombing; Mus. (7th Corps)-Cro. force captures Donji Vakuf and Jajce (15 miles N.) surrounding 6,000 Serbs whose leaders tell them to surrender weapons to Croats rather than govt. troops; BiH threatens Bosanski Petrovac as 5th Corps pushes south out of Bihac and Croats move north 40,000 Serbs from this area (including Sipovo, Mrkonjic Grad) flee towards Banja Luka, 5,000 more fleeing govt. advances near Mt. Ozren; NATO, US warn Bos.-Cro. force to use restaint; Serb resistance reported to be light (Jajce to have been given back to Bos. govt. in peace accords), and Kara. claims that Serb casualties are light; Hol. in Bel. to meet with Milo.; Rus. accuses NATO of genocide, Kohl rejects this as unacceptable; Mac., Greece agree on rec. of Mac., lifting of emb., amending Ma c. constitution to remove ref. to Greek terr., and Mac. must give up use of 16-pt. star of Mac.; Greece still refuses to allow for name of Mac. itself Sept. 14 Kara., Mladic sign agreement with Holbrooke to withdraw most heavy wea. (exc. mortars under 82mm and art. under 100mm) 12 1/2 miles from Sara. after 11 hrs. of talks in Bel. with Milo., NATO to halt airstrikes for 72 hours to ensure compliance, then to hold off for another 72; Hol. seeks Izet. assurance that go vt. will refrain from off. around Sara. as Serbs pull back; Govt. and Croatian forces continue to make gains in west, and govt. troops move forward towards Ozren lib- erating 10 villages; Serbs withdrawing to- wards Doboj; Serbs fire art. at Tuzla-area towns, villages around Gracanica, also at Vranovaca and Rajska to divert attention from arms convoy moving along corridor Sept. 15 Clinton welcomes Serb decision but warns that NATO airstrikes will resume if they do not honor commitment, also says Serbs have promised to halt all off. actions in Sara. area; 5th Corps captures Bosanski Petrovac, moves on towards Kljuc and Sanski Most, Serbs withdrawing towards Prijedor, BL leav- ing behind stores of wea., ammo.; US says Bos. govt. not asked to sign agree. like Serbs did; Serbs open 2 rds. into Sara. as promised to allow convoys into city, Fre. cargo plane with flour supplies lands at Sara. airport (1st plane since April); Hol. in Gen. for meeting with Contact Group; Fire destroys equipment at ind. radio sta- tion 'Studio 99' in Sara. which is critical of govt., arson suspected by operators; Head of War Crimes Trib., Richard Goldstone, warns against making deal in peace neg. granting immunity to war criminals Sept. 16 NATO tells Serbs that it will resume air strikes if they don't speed up withdrawal, 71 art. pieces moved by nightfall, al- though Def. Sec. Perry says 'preliminary indications are positive'; BiH troops on outskirts of Sanski Most and Prijedor; Perry also says F-117s will not be brought over to Italy; UN reports that atrocities against civs. may have been commited by both sides in Donji Vakuf; 1st US Air Force C-130 lands with relief supplies at Sara. airport; Hol. back in Bel. for more talks with Milo.; Serbs says 100,000 refs. in BL, UN says 60,000 Sept. 17 Smith and Janvier say enough wea. are being withdrawn to allow another 72 hr. halt in bombing; Bos. Serb comm. in Sara. Gen. Drago- mir Milosevic says half of wea. have been withdrawn, rest will be gone by Wed. deadline and UN spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Vernon now says Serbs have been told to remove 82mm mortars and 100mm cannons as well; Hol. shut- tles from Bel. to Zag. to Sara., then back to Bel.; Serbs still losing ground in west, govt.-Croat forces now about 30 miles from Banja Luka; Kara. says Serbs have taken 'heavy losses' and Bel. radio confirms that Sanski Most, Bos. Krupa, and Prijedor have fallen Sept. 18 UN reports that Bos.-Croat advances have given them control of at least half of the country, probably more; Govt. says troops have taken 36 sq. miles around Mt. Ozren for a total of over 2,400 sq. miles captured in past week, forces pressing in on Bosansko Petrovo Selo, and Doboj-Tuzla rd. claimed to be under govt. control; western fighting now along Sana River between Prijedor and Sanski Most; member of Govt. gen. staff says enough Serb wea. taken to arm 2 inf. bri- gades, and art. and tank companies; Nasa Borba reports column of refs. 70 km. long leaving BL and heading for Derventa and Serbia; Sacirbey says his govt. willing to neg. with 'reasonable leaders' in Banja Luka as forces close in; Bri. DM Rifkind urges restraint on Bos. govt., and other Bri. officials contend that govt. successes will only draw Serbia into the war; State Dept. cautions Bos. govt. noting 'now is not the time to escalate the war'; Mladic reported in Bel. hosp. due to kidney stone surg. keeping him away from battlefield; War criminal Zeljko 'Arkan' Raznatovic in Banja Luka with troops; Bos. Croats reported to be willing to hand over to War Crimes Trib. indicted war criminal Ivica Rajic for massacre of Mus. civs. in Stupni on Oct. 23, '93 Sept. 19 UN says Bos. govt.-Croatian forces now con- trol as much as half of country, and that govt. art. now only 10 miles from Banja Luka, but Izet. and Tudj. in meeting with Holbrooke in Zag. say attack on city is not imminent; Cro. FM Granic says Cro. army will stop moving on Banja Luka and 'this is the right time for the end of war and for a final just peace'; Bos. FM Sacirbey comments it is 'a little prema- ture' to discuss land div. and 'the best dip. is created on the ground' Sept. 20 UN 'content' with Serb compliance, says 250 wea. withdrawn and no new airstrikes to take place unless Sara. again attacked; Cro. and govt. forces continue to move toward BL, now also attacking Prijedor, and Croats take Bos. Kostajnica and Bos. Dubica; 5th Corps reported to have moved into Bos. Novi; Bos. govt. sends letter to UN saying off. will end if BL is demilitarized, and Silajdzic tells Serbs that an attack will come on BL if it resists reintegration in- to Bos.; Kara. warns that his troops will take revenge now that they have consoli- dated themselves; UN says Cro. govt. has misled press about off.; Bos. troops in Sara. fire 3 mor. rds. at Serb positions in viol. of promise to UN, UN condemns it, calls it 'provocation', also claims govt. troops shelling Doboj; Bos. Serbs fire 2 missiles at NATO plane near Sara., plane not hit; Bos. Serbs claim Cro. firing mortars at Serb civs. from across border; EU report says of 18,232 houses in 240 Serb villages in Kra., more than 13,600 (73%) have been partly or fully destroyed; Serbs have expelled 944 Mus., Croats from BL, 432 from Doboj, and 442 from Mrkonjin Grad; Milo. issues statement with Stoltenberg saying 'it was necessary to bring about the end of...hostilities', and Milo. says he is in favor of dip. solution; Cro. lower house of parl. dissolves itself so as to begin early elec. campaign which Tudj., HDZ (Cro. Dem. Community) are ex- pected to win due to war successes Sept. 21 Serbs beat back Cro. off. in N. Bos. with Cro. taking heavy casualties, Wes. dips. say Cro. push across Una River poorly planned, executed, and Serbs have been bombing them with cluster bombs (NATO takes no action); Serbs counterattacking to keep back govt. forces near Prijedor, Sanski Most and UN reports 5th Corps has stall- ed 10 km SW of Bosanski Novi and 12 km W of Sanski Most with thousands of govt.- Cro. troops moving from Travnik; Heavy fighting on Mt. Ozren with Serbs shelling civ. areas in response to govt. advances; 2nd and 3rd Corps advancing on Doboj causing Serb civs to flee to Bijeljina; Serbs fire rocket at Maglaj wounding 20; Fre. and US commandos fail in 3 attempts to rescue 2 Fre. flyers in Serbian control; US apparently commits to further rescue efforts Sept. 22 Govt. troops in Sara. again fire mor. at Serbs, UN condemns action; 5th Corps comm. Gen. Dudakovic says of goals, 'We want to connect the three Bs: Bihac, BL, and Bijeljina'; Izet. calls for demilitariza- tion of BL and says refs. can stay in town and army will not enter if this is accept- ed, also calls for free access to Gor. as condition for 60-day cf; Serb member of BH presidency, Mirko Pejanovic, calls on Serbs living in Pale-run areas to set up their own civil auth.; Yugo. FM Milutino- vic says Yugo. army's involvement cannot be ruled out in conflict; Ger. FM Kinkel warns Croats to respect abandoned Serb property in Kra. and not to hinder return of Serb refs. Sept. 23 Both sides accuse other of pre-dawn at- tacks near Brcko, heavy fighting near Sanski Most w/ Arkan's paramilitary involved; Silajdzic announces mass grave of 540 bodies found near Krasulje and this gives govt. reason to pursue advance on BL; UN says Serbs still in control of Sanski Most, Mrkonjic Grad, and launching small counter- attacks; 5th Corps recapture 10 villages and 130 sq. miles of terr. in area in past 2 days, capture 16 APCs, and other art.; Cro., Bos. govts. agree to return of 100,000 Bos. refs. in Cro.; UN spokesman Ivanko says Serbs now hold only 49.7% of terr., while Govt. has 29.4%, HVO/HV 20.9% Sept. 24 Bos. govt. says it will not participate in peace talks in NY probably due to suc- cessful off. in BL area; govt. troops advancing in Ozren mts. (n. of Doboj), reported to have killed 25 Serb troops and capture large amounts of weapons; Govt., Croats fire art. at Serbs in NE corridor, Yugo. army claimed to be in- volved in fighting on Brka-Vranovaca front (s. of Brcko), and Govt.-Croat forces counterattack near Gradacac and capture village of Krecane but have to aban- don it due to Yugo. intervention; Serbs shell Gor.; Bos. Serbs reject demil. of BL, and Silajdzic says off. will continue; Govt. says it has uncovered mass grave with 500 bodies in village of Krasulje (Prhovo area) probably from 1992; US Amb. Galbraith tells Cro. govt. that postwar aid will be linked to treatment of Serbian min. Sept. 25 SoS Christopher calls Izet. urges him to participate in peace talks, then meets with FMs in NY to keep peace talks on track; Govt. and Cro. troops put pressure on Serb terr. near BL to allow equipment to come through; UN tells Serbs that attacking Gor. would be 'mad'; Tudj. meets in Paris with Chirac, both stress that Bos. must not become a radical Islamic state; Tudj. also says 100,000 of 200,000 refs. to be returned to liberated areas of BH, but Bos. govt. says it was not consulted on this; Izet. writes to Tudj. saying that Mus. min. in Cro. do not have guaranteed reps. in parl.; Yugo. FM Milutinovic meets with Ger. FM Kinkel (first such high-level meeting since '91) Sept. 26 3 sides agree to constitutional arrange- ment including elections, coll. pres., parl., and con. ct. during talks held at US mission to UN in NY under Contact Group direction; Clin. re-pledges US troops to secure agreement, says 'Amer. will strongly oppose the partition of Bos.', but Rep. sens. express opposition; Kara. says agreement 'a confirmation of the existence of the Serb Republic'; 2/3rds of parl. to come from Mus.-Cro. terr., 1/3rd from Serb areas, parl. action to re- quire 1/3rd from each entity to pass, pres. to be elected based on 2/3rds- 1/3rd formula but size not decided upon; 17 Mus. and 17 Serb prisoners exchanged at Sara. airport with another set for Tuzla; UN says 1,000 Mus./Croats (half of remaining pop.) expelled by Serbs from Doboj this past week; BBC reports Serbs still press-ganging among Cro. Serb refs.; Novi List quotes Tudj. as saying 'I promise today that we will soon enter Ilok and Vukovar'; Croats, Serbs fire art. at each other in border area near Slavon- ski Brod and Novska; Mladic in BL again, says diplomacy way to solve war, but also threatens of wider war if it continues Sept. 27 BiH troops very near to Mrkonjic Grad, within shelling distance of BL, Serbs shell Travnik with cluster bomb killing 2, also hit Zenica in retaliation for govt. off. Silajdzic says govt. will not neg. while civs. being killed; UN says more than 400, including soldiers, arrested in Cro. for looting and burning Serb homes in Kra.; Serbs claim govt. attacking rail and road junctions at Doboj; Mayor of Jajce says 'Herceg- Bosna' auth. ban Croats from settling in 'Bosniak' (Mus.) houses in anticipation of Croats returning to towns held by Bos. govt.; Intl. Tribunal sends Milo. letter saying it is his res. to hand over Kara., Mladic; Christopher says admin. will ask for Cong. approval before commiting troops to pk effort; Shalikashvili welcomes non-NATO states to contribute troops to potential pk force; Oslobodjenje reports that now 2,000 bodies have been discovered in Kljuc mass grave instead of just 540; Council of Eur. approves Mac. membership for Nov. 9 under name of For. Yugo. Rep. of Mac., and to have 3 seats in assem. Sept. 28 Govt. troops press off. in BL area shell- ing Serb positions around Mrkonjic Grad (40 miles from BL), Serb MiG-21s used against them; govt. says it has captured Serb Army volunteers fighting with Bos. Serbs but have executed them; Govt. com- manders in area say they have been or- dered to take high ground around BL and cut city off from other Serb terr.; Silajdzic says troops will keep fighting 'as long as there is no peace, there is war', and calls for NATO airstrikes in response to previous day's attacks on Zenica, Travnik, but NATO says no as these are not safe havens.; Stoltenberg in E. Sla. for talks with rebel Serbs; Intl. Herald-Trib. says Clinton admin. has en- dorsed civil suit against Kara. filed by 2 Bos. women; Mladic reported to have ar- rested officers responsible for Serbs' defeat in Cro.-Bos. off.; Russia said to have gained 2 Tomahawk cruise missiles from Bos. Serbs who shot down US recon. aircraft Sept. 29 Serb cannons fire on Konjic killing 2, at- tack Zenica killing 1, and Gor., fighting also around Kljuc and Mt. Ozren, while UN reports some fighting between Mus. and Croats over reconquered terr. but says their alliance holding; Hol. in Sara. for meetings; Ireland, BH est. diplomatic rel.; Clinton responds to Rep. Sen. letter of Sept. 25 that he is not keeping them informed of Bos. plans by meeting with 24 Rep. and Dem. cong. leaders, tells them costs of pk and rebuilding Bos. cheaper than continuing war; Dole still opposed and prefers lifting arms emb., Gingrich calls meeting 'interesting', Lugar says it is a 'good discussion' Sept. 30 EU, UN officials accuse Cro. of viol. a- gainst Serbs in Kra., calls actions part of systematic campaign to kick 3,500 re- maining Serbs out of region; bodies of slain elderly Serbs being found, whole villages being destroyed; Cro. claims this is the action of 'renegades', says 370 have been arrested for looting; US Asst. Sec. of State Shattuck calls for end to 'major human rts. abuses' in Kra.; Serbs fire guns at Gradacac, mortars on Mt. Ozren fired at villages around Gracanica; fighting around govt.-held Konjic (25 miles SE of Sara.) where 3 civs. killed, 10 wounded by shelling, heavy fighting around Mrkonjic Grad; Former Fin. DM Elizabeth Rhen named to replace Mazowiecki; Hol. in Bel., says 'all fundamental issues...remain un- resolved...(the sides are) very far apart'; UN says report which blames Serbs for fir- ing market on Aug. 28 correct despite Bri., Rus. contentions otherwise; Cro. Primate Cardinal Kuharic tells Cro. soldiers in mass that there is no justification for harming a human being regardless of ethnic origin; Vecernji List says 3/4rds of Cath. churches in Kra. destroyed under Serbian control, while only 2.5% of Orth. build- ings ruined Oct. 1 7th Corps said to be on Mt. Manjaca only 20 km. away from BL, heavy Serb art. re- sponse, 3 at Zenica; Hol. continues shuttle dip. meeting with Tudj., Milo., says sides don't agree on how to stop fighting; Milo. calls for cf as first step; Hol. says reintegration of E. Sla. into Cro. essential but must be peaceful Oct. 2 Silajdzic in Mos. for talks w/ Kozyrev, Chernomyrdin; Serb tanks and mor. fired at govt. troops ne of Bos. Krupa, govt. fires back killing 3, UN says no new changes in sides' positions Oct. 3 Mac. Pres. Kiro Gligorov badly wounded in car bomb attack, driver killed, 3 others wounded; Serbs, Croats agree in principle to return of E. Sla. to Cro. control with UN acting as transitional auth. to admin. area; Bos. govt. troops, Serbs fight near BL; Govt. forces launch attack around Mt. Treskavica (s. of Sara.) to cut Serb supply rd. between Sara.-Trnovo, Serbs demand to be allowed to return their wea. to area to respond but UN says no; UN pro- tests govt. attack; UN says Serbs regain some terr. in nw; Govt. says 3 killed, 3 wounded in Gor.; SoS Christopher says if US does not participate in NATO pk force it could mean end of alliance; Akashi says 9 elderly Serb civs. m urdered in village in Kra. by men wearing mil. uniforms; Hol., in Bel., says talks not at impasse; Helsinki Comm. says human rts. in Kos. remain bad with 17 Alb. killed, 6 being tortured to death in '94, and that 11 Alb. have been killed in '95 most by torture Oct. 4 NATO planes attack 2 Serb SAM systems in C. Bos. and another in south after bat- teries lock onto NATO craft; Serbs continue off. in W. Bos. with intense fighting around Otoka, Bos. Krupa; Govt. troops of 4th Corp near Mostar say they have driven Serbs off key heights near Sara.-Trnovo rd. and are controlling rd. between Konjic and Kalinovic (Mladic's home town);Holbrooke says he has been given 'serious cf pro- posal' by Bos. govt. auth.; Mac. parl. speaker Stojan Andov named acting pres. to replace Gligorov; UN protests torture of Serbs by Croats to Tudj say- ing Cro. sec. forces probably involved; Zubak admits to conflicts between Croat and Bos. forces but downplays them; US amb. to Bos., John Menzies, arrives in Sara. to take up post Oct. 5 Clinton announces Bos. cf to take effect on 10-10 after elec., gas restored to Sara., all shooting to stop, and no new mines laid or barriers imposed, but existing positions to be temp. maintained; cf to last 60 days, neg. to begin in US on 10-25; agreement drafted by Hol., signed by Izet., Kara. and Mladic, wit- nessed by Milo.; no US troops to be in- volved until formal peace settlement reached; agreement does not include Cro., and UN says over 100 Cro. troops have moved into Bihac area, but Cro. govt. to be full partner in cf due to presence of Cro. troops in Bos.; Yelt. calls agree- ment 'major step toward peace'; Cro. art. positioned near Dvor in Cro.; Serbs firing art. at Gracanica, Zavidovici, and Maglaj; Yugo. army fighting in Doboj-Kraljina-Bos. Petrovo Selo area; UN says 1/3rd of pk force (9,000) to be removed due to stabilization and progress of peace talks; Rus. says it will resume deliveries of nat. gas to Sara. but land mines need to removed from around elec. pylons; Official Dutch explanation of Dutchbat role in fall of Sreb. contradicted by soldiers who say they knew executions were going on, and that Dutch comms. preferred to deal with Serbs who they considered to be professional soldiers; UN warns Cro., Bos. to protect their minority citizens better; Mac. leg. votes (110-1-4) to change flag, new flag to have 8-pt. sun Oct. 6 Approx. 3,500 Cro. troops providing art. support for Bos. govt. forces who repel Serb advance west of Bosanska Krupa (125 miles nw of Sara.), and 400 Cro. have now crossed into Bihac area in past 3 days; EU says Kljuc (85 miles nw of Sara.) still in govt. hands but Serbs say they will recap- ture it as early as tomorrow; Govt. gains made near Trnovo (s. of Sara.); Hol. says delays in reestablishing util. to Sara. could temp. delay cf; Tudj. says Cro. troops to ob- serve cf, Rus. says it will contribute troops to multi-nat. force Oct. 7 Serbs expel 450 women, children, and old people from around BL to Zenica, refs. say many of them expelled by Arkan and his troops, males have been taken to un- known locations; heavy fighting around Bosanska Krupa; UN says it will be clear- ing mines from road leading to Gor. as part of govt. demands for cf; Tudj. con- firms that regular Cro. troops still in Bos. Oct. 8 Serb planes bomb ref. camp at Zivinice near Tuzla with cluster bomb (M-87 Orkan rock- et) killing at least 6, wounding 30, NATO planes respond but call off strikes due to bad weather (Bos. Serb TV blames Bos. govt. of massacring own citizens); Serb planes bomb Tesanjk a (N. Bos.) killing 9, wound ing 45, while Cro. reports that Serb planes also drop cluster bombs on Cro. villages of Jelah, Lepenica in Usora River valley (N. Bos.); art. and rocket fire near Bosanska Krupa, heavy fighting near Kljuc; Silajdzic threatens to call off peace talks if attacks not stopped, but Izet. says cf to be observed if mines cleared as agreed Oct. 9 NATO planes bomb Serb bunker which has been directing shelling of Tuzla for 2nd day (16 dead, 90 wounded, including Nor. pk and 2 civs.); Serb units directed by Arkan ex- pel 3,500 from Prijedor and Bosanski Novi (near BL); women refs. report that men were taken away and that they were detained in stadium for several days without water; Bos. govt. says cf to be delayed since util- ities have not been restored to Sara., and Cro. newspapers say Bos. govt. forces ready to take Mrkonjic Grad; Cro. officials say they have found mass grave in Kra. of mostly elderly Cro. citizens killed by Serbs in '91 in area retaken from Serbs; Mac. parl. ra- tifies interim agreement with Greece Oct. 10 Bos. govt. says amount of elec. powering Sara. homes inadequate, refuse to accept truce under these conditions, but Serbs say they are not authorized to accept of- fer and will have to consult leaders; UN says Serbs in final push to ethnically cleanse terr. and have expelled 10,000 Mus., Croats in last 4 days with the usual rapes, murders, and robberies; Cro. forces take Mrkonjic Grad amidst heavy fighting, Serbs say they will shell Cro. border towns in retaliation; BiH stops Serb advance on Bos. Krupa and Kljuc and gained ground near Doboj; Govt. troops start off. towards Mt. Vis (s. of Kales- ija, e. of Tuzla); Serbs fire art. at Okucani wounding 3; BiH takes Sanski Most and Bos. Novi; 7th Corps links up w/ HV at Ugar River, 1st Corps has liberated 100 sq. km near Trnovo and moving towards Gor.; Serb hq calls for last stands in def. of Prijedor and Sanski Most, says Manjaca Hill near BL under BiH rocket-launcher fire, 15,000 more Serbs flee fighting and 3,200 sol. missing, killed, or captured in these off. according to Serbs; UN announces that it will replace Akashi at end of month with Ghanian dip. Kofi Annan (temp.) Oct. 11 Bos.-wide cf (36th) begins after midnight, 2 days later than scheduled but within time frame, all sides now to enter neg. in US on Oct. 31; Serbs accuse Bos. govt. of delays implementing cf as tactic to seize towns of Mrkonjic Grad and Sanski Most to widen corridor between Sara., Bihac Oct. 12 CF largely in effect although fighting in nw; both sides accuse other of viol. of truce with Serbs saying govt. forces shelling road between Sanski Most and BL; UN monitors still prevented from enter- nw war zone and can't verify fighting; More fighting reported around Sanski Most despite govt. having taken town, BiH also advancing n. on Prijedor and claims to have taken highway 6 miles w. of town; govt. says that forces had ad- vanced within 12 miles of BL prior to cf; 5th Corps comm. Dudakovic meets w/ cen. Bos. 7th Corps comm. Gen. Mehmet Alagic in Sanski Most to plan next advances; UN convoy testing openness of road out of Sara. turned back due to Serb mines, Fre. pks begin clearing them; UN est. of refs. from fighting between 9,000-40,000 with most Cro.-Mus. men unaccounted for; govt. troops find mass grave with 15 bodies in village of Kokic near Jajce; Mac. admitted into OSCE Oct. 13 Govt. and Croat troops continue push in nw, Serb refs. fleeing by thousands; Serbs set up checkpts. around BL to keep pop. from leaving; Serbs threaten to pull out of peace talks, and Dep. Serb comm. Gen. Milan Gvero demands NATO air- strikes; Serbs say 2 villages s. of BL evacuated and one on fire, BL hospitals crammed with wounded; Prijedor shelled, loses electricity and radio while Kara. visits, and UN spokesman Vernon says Dudakovic probably wants to take city despite what he has told UN; Kara. says 'Amer. has brokered this cf, and it is obliged to stop the Mus.'; UN allowed into Sanski Most for 'controlled' visit; UN says Serbs' ethnic cleansing starting again in BL Oct. 14 UN favorable on reduction of fighting but criticizes govt. for not allowing monitoring, while govt. comms. in Sanski Most say they were not given orders to halt advance until 4 days after the cf; Sacirbey calls on Serb civs. not to flee homes; Silajdzic tells UN that large numbers of Yugo. troops, weapons crossing into Bos. in recent days which prompts govt. to halt further fighting; Bos. Serbs say they will adhere to cf and send reps. to peace talks in US; Shalikashvili meets with Izet. in Sara. and says airstrikes still option to en- force truce; Bos. Serb leader Koljevic says they will call on Yugo. and Orth./ Slavic countries to aid them in stopping BiH/Cro. advances Oct. 15 Aid workers say that older Serb refs. are dying in ref. camps due to exhaustion caused by fighting (many of them in Omarska, former prison camp); UN says Cro. army unit with 22 tanks crosses back into Cro., and 2,500 Cro. troops move away from positions along n. border; govt. army commanders meet in Sara. and send rep. to nw to ensure cf; Serbs claim fighting still going on in this area with shelling of Prijedor; Bos. Serb parl. meeting in BL, removes B. Serb Premier Dusan Kozic but Kara. demands army leadership 'bear the consequences' for losses; Govt. forces in Sanski Most find corpses of 85 civs. killed by Serbs during their retreat, 1,000 Mus. men missing in this town alone; Tudj. re- elected head of Cro. Dem. Comm. (HDZ) Oct. 16 Kara. fires 4 gens. in response to losses in recent days including Dep. Serb comm. Milan Gvero, mil. intel. chief Zdravko Tolimir, and local commanders, Gen. Djordje Djukic and Gen. Grujo Boric, calls on Serbia to send assistance; UN says truce holding 80% but fighting persists in NW, more refs. flooding into BL area with 40,000 Serbs fleeing Prijedor in 1 day; Serbs reported to have reopened more former concentration camps to hold refs.; Financial Times says 2,500 Cro. troops have not re- turned from Bos. to Adriatic garrisons, may be headed to E. Sla. Oct. 17 Christopher, Perry present admin. plan for sending troops to Bos. to Cong.; Perry com- ments that 'if US forces are attacked... they will bring a large hammer down on them immediately', both say US forces to be under NATO command, not UN; US announces site of new peace talks to be Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio; BiH says Mladic now request- ing meetings with their commanders; Frank- furter Allegemeine Zeitung says 22 Cro. tanks pulled out of Bos. to be sent to Nasice near E. Sla.; Mont. says Cro. Serbs moving into Mont. causing humanitarian problem; Hol. arrives in Bel. for talks w/ Milo. Oct. 18 Bos., Serbia agree to open liaison offices in each other's capitols; UN reports 100 Mus. killed by Serb paramil. forces in Bosanski Novi; Cro. says 25 arrested in killing of Serb civs. in Kra.; In 2nd day of testimony before US Cong., admin. offi- cials are grilled by skeptical legs. about committing US force; Kara., in first admis- sion that Serbs hold 2 Fre. pilots says unknown group, possibly Mus., has kidnapped them; Gligorov released from hosp., doctors say he has not completely lost sight in rt. eye Oct. 19 Fighting around Sanski Most with Serbs re- taking 4 sq. miles, and around hy- droelectric station near Jajce (Cro.-held); Bos. Serbs demand govt. give back land taken in past month; Tudj. tells Hol. that Cro. will try peaceful methods to regain E. Sla.; Unnamed 'western officials' say they have evidence of thousands of Mus. men and boys killed by Serbs in BL area in past week, UN sources say US is deliberately remaining silent on the issue so as not to derail peace talks; aid convoy reaches Gor.; Fre. officials in Bel. with FM de Charette say Milo. doesn't seem to know about pilots, call Kara. story 'grotesque'; EU neg. Bildt de- tained by Fre. troops at Sara. airport but finally allowed to leave, no exp. given; Kara. says map is key question in future settlement, says rel. w/ Mladic good; Bos. Serbs reported to have arrested 1 Bri., 2 Amer. journalists at Pale; Hol. says Sara. should not become a divided Berlin Oct. 20 UN gives Bos. govt. 24-hr. deadline to allow UN observers to monitor cf or be condemned for obstruction; Izet. announces 20 goals of BH dev. including maintaining sovereignty and terr. integrity, the Contact Group map being considered valid, no surrender of Gor., or Brcko, an undivided Sara., agreement to be enforced not by UNPROFOR but by 'power- ful intl. forces' who must be deployed throughout BH and not only along separation lines, Cro. forces to remain on BH terr. only 30 days after agreement signed; Govt. formally calls for Abdic's extradition; cf around Sanski Most agreed on by front-line commanders; Car bomb explodes in front of county police station in Rijeka killing 1, seriously wounding 2 Oct. 21 Fra. supports Rus. pk contribution, Chirac says, and comments that 'Rus. and Fre. positions on this point are perfectly con- vergent'; Serbs free 2 Turk. journalists, 2 Saudi aid workers, and Vladimir Srebrov, a pro-govt. Serb writer, while govt. frees 10 Bos. Serbs including 1 soldier at Sara. airport; UN reports 55 women who refused to leave homes in Prijedor beaten to death by Serbs, also says that fighting in NW is now at 'negligible' levels; Arkan says his troops will be redeployed to E. Sla.; Militant Egyptian Islamic group, Al-Jama' ah al-Islamiyah, claims responsibility for Rijeka exp., calls for release of their spokesman who has been detained by Cro. police since Sept. Oct. 22 Bos. Serbs accuse govt. forces of firing on Serb positions in Doboj and Mt. Ozren; Perry says Rus. unwillingness to send pks under NATO command a 'major hangup' for pk mission; Yelt. tells UN that Rus. pks will go to Bos. 'but only under a strict mandate of the UN Sec. Counc.', and that 'mil. force should never be used in those cases when dip. has not yet managed to succeed' and calls NATO use of force in Bos. 'an obvious and clear-cut' viol. of UN prin.; Perry, Chris. refuse to guaran- tee that US pk role will only last 1 yr., instead say this is an 'approx. date'; Fre. DM Charles Millon says Milo. has given some assurances that 2 pilots are alive, spec. that they are held by Yugo. secret police but no neg. are being con- ducted with Milo.; Bos. Serb assembly appoints BL mayor Rajko Kasagic as new premier Oct. 23 Bos. Serb assem. calls for part of Sara. to be under their control, the right to hold a ref. on secession from Bos. within a year, the return of some land lost in recent bat- tles; Serbs also still demanding access to Adriatic and a 12-mile wide corridor linking terr. in e. and w. Bos.; Govt. has no imme- diate reaction; Cro.-Serb negs. in Osijek say they have made progress with Serbs accepting principle of peaceful reintegra- tion, and Tudj. says Zag. not to use force to retake E. Sla.; Yeltsin, Clinton meet in NY, discuss Bos. but come to no agreement on participation of Rus. troops under NATO command; Kara. inspects Arkan's troops in Bijeljina who have now postponed their departure; Bos. govt. protests Bos. Croats running in upcoming Cro. parl. elections (12 of 127 seats are reserved for Cro. diaspora; Tudj., Izet., and Turkish pres. meet in NY, discuss return of Abdic refs. to Bos., but Bos. Min. of Justice demands extradition of Abdic Oct. 24 Western rd. out of Sara. opened by UNPROFOR after cleared of mines; Bos. govt. says Cro. govt. decision to allow Bos. Croats to vote in Cro. elections undermines sov. of BH; Tudj. insists in interview (USA Today) that no Islamic nations help in re- construction of Bos., and this would cause Cro. to withdraw from peace neg.; Yugo. FM Milan Milutinovic says Bel. participation in peace talks conditional upon lifting of sanctions; US officials ask Milo. to help locate hundreds of missing Mus., Croats in BL area; Kara., Koljevic, Krajisnik in Bel. for talks with Milo. but Yugo. media do not report on meeting; Cro. arrests 15 (13 Serbs, 2 Croats) including human rts. activist Radovan Jovic for spying for Yugo., pro- viding info. to Kra. Serbs Oct. 25 Clinton, Yelt. agree that as many as 2,000 Rus. troops to carry out support functions for peace accord, although details of how they will answer to NATO not worked out; Peace talks delayed 1 day to allow Yelt. to meet the leaders in Mos. on Oct. 31; UNHCR estimates that 2-3,000 Mus. men miss- ing in BL area due to Oct. expulsions; Cro.-rebel Serb negs. resume Oct. 26 Bos. Serbs say they will allow relief orgs. immediate and unrestricted access into areas such as BL where Mus. prisoners are or executions have taken place after Milo. prom- ises this to US official, but Red Cross says they are still being denied; UNHCR spokesman Jankowski says he has more evi- dence that 2-3,000 Mus. men were perhaps killed by Serbs in BL area; Perry, Grachev meet in Wash., make little progress on how Rus. troops would work with NATO; Dole, 50 other Rep. senators write Clinton requesting he seek auth. before committing 20,000 troops to pk force, but Perry says Clin. will seek non-binding 'sense of the Cong.' 'at the right time'; Izet. says stable peace not possible unless accused war criminals are removed, but also comments that Rus. should not be excluded from NATO-led pk force; Cro. arrests 14, accuses them of spying for Yugo. army in '91 Oct. 27 Perry, Grachev agree to set up multi-nat. mil. force to help in reconstruction of Bos., issue of how they will relate to NATO not clarified; unit to be separate from NATO force, and carry out engineer- ing, clearing rds., manning checkpts., and to answer to US Gen. George Joulwan as comm. of US forces in Eur. (not NATO); unit to arrive in Bos. 1 month after NATO; Tudj. tells parl. elec. rally 'we will free the rest of the occupied terr., if possible w/ peace, but if not possible w/ peace, we will use all means available; mil. action now expected Oct. 28 Galbraith, Stoltenberg give Cro. Serbs pro- posals for reintegration with Cro., Cro. Serbs reject these without explanation but Serbian neg. Slavko Dokmanovic says they could not allow for Cro. police immediately being stationed on border with Yugo.; Serbs say column of Yugo. army tanks moving towards border with E. Sla.; Zag. continuing to hint it will attack in mid-Nov. unless Serbs agree to submit to Cro. auth.; Hol. pessimistic about Dayton talks saying his greatest fear is that bringing together 3 presidents 'will prove to have been a mistake' and that 'there will be no peace' if Serbs insist on seces- sion Oct. 29 Croats vote in parl. elections; Diplomats trying to keep Cro., Serbs from attacking each other in E. Sla.; 30 Islamic vols. hold up, threaten to kill 5 Bri. pks in retaliation for Bri. soldier having killed one of them, UN protests; UN accuses US of having made wea. drops to BiH over summer (according to Bri. TV), US denies it; US gives war crimes prosecutors photo evidence of 6 more mass grave sites in Sreb. area, says it had not done this earlier to prevent Serbs from destroying evidence; 1st passen- ger bus to leave Sara. since April '92 heads west under UN escort; Govt., Serbs exchange 19 prisoners, 5 corpses in Sara.; About 1,000 Mus. refs. have returned to homes in Sanski Most, Kljuc, and Mrkonjic Grad Oct. 30 US House of Reps. votes 315-103 in favor of non-binding res. telling Bos. peace neg. that US troops should not be presumed to be available to enforce agreement; Tudj.'s party gets only 44% of vote in elec., and will fall short of 2/3rds majority nec. for amending Cons. (Tudj. opponents gain 2 of 4 seats in Zag.); Izet. leaves for talks say- ing he will not accept div. of country, will hold out for united Sara., while EU FMs meet in Lux. and agree to provide $2 bil. in reconstruction aid and call for BH to remain single state with 2 entities; First civ. con- voy in 3 yrs. reaches Gor. w/ human. aid; Bos. govt., Serbs have now exchanged more than 500 civ., mil. prisoners in Koprivna (near Sanski Most); UN reports Bos. Serbs shelling near Dub. previous day, Cro. FM Granic threatens retaliation while Bos. Serbs say Cro. army has conducted shelling; UN says it will withdraw 6-8,500 of its 18,000 man force for cost-cutting purposes; Dutch say their pks were not responsible for fall of Sreb. after Boston Globe publishes UN docs. sent to Dutchbat in July which state 'giving up any weapons and mil. equip. is not auth. and is not a point of discussion', and 'take all reasonable measures to protects refs. and civs. in your care'; NY Times says US now claims that Serbs massacred up to 6,000 Mus. in Sreb, tried to hide it by destroying bodies and moving them from mass graves Oct. 31 Clinton admin. official says parties in Dayton peace talks will not initially face each other but instead be in proximity to one another; Rus. Dep. FM Igor Ivanov, Bildt to co-chair talks; Final Cro. elec. results give HDZ 44.8% of votes, Peasant Party and 4 other coalition partners gain 18.4%, and Social Liberals get 11.6%, OSCE observers note polling irregularities and some in- fringements of secret balloting; Milo. says he is optimistic about talks and that 'our aim is peace', Tudj that he is 'hopeful'; UNHCR says expulsions of Mus. continuing in BL area, Sacirbey calls for investigation of fall of Sreb. says Milo. ultimately res. for slaughter of thousands; Serbian Assem. of Srem-Baranja Region (E. Sla.) formally re- ject reintegration proposals, neg. Milan- tovic calling for 5 yr. period of UN control; Serbian police raid Albanian homes in Kosovo town of Urosevac searching for arms, beat up dozens Nov. 1 Izet., Tudj., Milo. convene for peace talks, begin meeting by shaking hands, Chris. meets separately with Tudj., Milo.; Izet., Tudj. reach agreement on first phase of ref. problem, while Milo., Tudj. agree to set- tle E. Sla. problem peacefully; smoking ban in govt. buildings lifted to accomodate 200 Europeans; Christian Science Monitor corr. David Rohde disappears in Serb terr., US tells Serbs it holds them responsible for his safety; Ger. newspaper Die Tageszeitung reports that on May 24 Bri., Fra., and Rus. voted to abandon Sreb., Zepa, and Gor. and that US, Ger. tacitly consented; paper also contends that Chirac gave Janvier order not to authorize 5 air strikes requested by Dutch pks in Sreb., and that Fre. and US secret services were aware of Serbian off. plans; Yugo. govt. denies Wash. Post reports that its troops were involved at Sreb., denies existence of prison camps for Bos. Mus. on Yugo. terr. Nov. 2 Chris. says NATO forces can't be expected to serve if Bos. Serb leadership remains in power; Sacirbey comments 'we know we are going to be sitting across the table from some monsters but if that's what it takes to make peace we'll do it'; Wash. said to be offerring to turn info. on Milo. and advis- ors over to war crimes trib. if they do not coop. in peace talks; The Guardian reports that prisoners exchanged by Bos. Serbs said that Serbs massacred civs. during withdrawal from Sanski Most, possibly as many as 151 Nov. 4 HVO troops block Mus. refs. from coming back to Jajce for prayers despite agreement on opening it up; Bri. intel. says US had info. on Sreb. assault by tapped phone lines be- tween Bos. Serb leaders but Wash. denies it had anything more than general info. Nov. 5 Tudj. backs off pledge made in Dayton and now says force may be used to regain E. Sla., that Serbs have until Nov. 30 to sign agree- ment restoring region to Cro. (also says Cro. will not renew UN mandate in Cro.); Bos. Serbs reject proposal to drop Kara., Mladic as part of peace agreement; after strong protests at Dayton by US, officials al- lowed to meet with CSM corr. Rohde who is serving 15-day sentence for illegal border crossing; Tudj. replaces PM Valentic with Zlatko Matesa, former min. for rels. w/ EU Nov. 6 7 Fre. pks from rrf attacked, wounded at base near Mostar, assailants unknown; Ejup Ganic says that govt. agrees to NATO dividing BH into 3 mil. sectors under US, Fre., and Bri. control; Fre. to based in Mostar, Bri. to be responsible for W. Bos. w/ hq in Gornji Va- kuf, and US to be hq'ed in Tuzla with NATO gen. hq in Sara.; Bos. govt. accuses Bos. Croat auth. of not allowing several hundred Mus. families to return to Jajce Nov. 7 Clinton admin. tells war crimes trib. it is withholding evidence for 'nat.-sec. reasons', says Goldstone's complaints about this are 'unfortunate'; Gold. says 'quality and time- liness' of US intel. 'disappointing'; US again denies it has intel. info. about phone calls between Mladic and Yugo. Army Comm. Gen. Momcilo Perisic with Perisic advising Mladic on Sreb.; Serbs in e. Sla. say they are willing to fight; US admin. officials now say Chris. 'misspoke' about not sending troops if Kara., Mladic remain; Bos. govt. allowing Abdic followers to return to Vel. Kla., but UNHCR says Croatia's 'vol. return' of 11,000 refs. a forcible reloca- tion; UNHCR also says Mus., Croats recently evicted in BL area now being forced to sleep in the open; Bos. govt. agrees to adopt DeutchMark as official currency w/ Bos. dinar; Boutros-Ghali says in interview that he has 'no criticism [of Dutchbat]. They performed good work' Nasa Borba says 71,750 Serb refs. in BL, 60,000 more have been moved into 'individual accomodations' Nov. 8 2 Mus. women raped, tortured in Bos. Cro. terr., 1 dies next day; Rus., US report compromise allowing Rus. troops to participate in pk efforts ind. of direct NATO command, Rus. brig. to consist of 3 bats. (1,000 troops) attached to 1st Armored Div., to be under day-to-day 'tacti- cal' control of its comm., but 'operational' to be carried out by Rus. comm. who will be dep. to Gen. Joulwan; Reporter for CSM re- leased after 2 weeks captivity by Bos. Serbs, Kara. saying reporter David Rohde had been 'cleared of all charges'; Clinton admin. now tells war crimes trib. it will give it any intel. info. relevant to its inquiries; Nov. 9 Dayton talks get agreement on reviving Bos.- Croat Fed.; War crimes trib. for first time links Serbia with war crimes after it in- dicts 3 Yugo. army officers (Gen. Mile Mrksic of JNA Guards Bri., aides Miroslav Radic and Veselin Sljivancanin) who had 'command responsibility' for massacre of 261 men in Vukovar hosp. in '91; US proposes that draft cons. for Bos. prevent Kara., Mladic from holding office as Hol. says Kara. is 'complicitous or worse in the worst war crimes since the end of the Second World War', but Milo. refusing to budge on ousting them; UN Sec. Coun. unanimously approves res. condemning all viol. in former Yugo., urge Serbs to close detention camps, provide monitors with access to suspected grave sites, Cro. told to respect rts. of Kra. Serbs to return home; Mac. becomes 37th mem- ber of CofE; US troops participate for first time in joint exercises w/ Mac.; Perry says 12 NATO PfP members offer troops or logistical support; Tudj., Izet. agree to unification of Mostar Nov. 10 Sniper wounds 1 in Sara., first such inci- dent in 2 weeks; Bos. govt. agrees to give most domestic auth. to Bos.-Cro. fed. leaving central govt. with for. trade, for. pol., currency, and air-traffic control; Shattuck says after talks w/ BL mayor that Serbs have finally admitted to arresting Mus. civs., that 1,400 BL Mus. have been arrested or imprisoned; Shattuck also tells Serbs to allow war crimes investigators into BL area, says 'the guilty will be found' but western dips. say pol. without substance; UN human rts. investigator Elizabeth Rehn accuses Cro. of abuses against Kra. Serbs and 120 killings, and accuses Bos. 5th Corps of abuses against Abdic followers; UN sanctions comm. allows Yugo. to import nat. gas, liquid petro. gas, and heating oil from Rus. despite previous agreement to prevent this until peace accord reached, but on condition flow flow of gas to Sara. be uninterrupted; 750 troops of Cro. 5th Corps. reported moving towards e. Sla. Nov. 11 UN holds ceremony in Sara. marking end of WWI Nov. 12 Serbs in Erdut (E. Sla.) with Galbraith and Stoltenberg as witnesses sign agreement made by Milo., Tudj. to reintegrate area into Cro., Cro. govt. signs in Zag.; agreement calls for 1-yr. transitional period which may be extended to 2, interrim admin. created by UN, troops deployed to act as pks, local elecs. 30 days before transition period ends, Serbs to have own municipal council, return of thousands of Cro. refs., and respect for human rts.; agreement to come into effect when UN Sec. Coun. ratifies it Nov. 13 6 members of HVO and Bos. branch of HDZ in- dicted for war crimes (removal, des. of Mus. pop. in Lasva valley) during fighting against Bos. govt., group includes comm. of HVO Tihomir Blaskic, and Pres. of Bos. branch of HDZ Dario Kordic; Ger. media report that Kara., Mladic tried to cut deal w/ Wash. having them leave office without fear of indictment by Hague, NIN says US refused it; UNHCR estimates repat. costs $300-500 mil., to take 2 years; IMF mis- sion in Sara. for talks Nov. 14 Goldstone says he will resign from WCT if Kara., Mladic avoid prosecution, Bos. Serbs say neither will resign; Tudj. ap- points accused war criminal Blaskic as in- spector of head inspection of Cro. army; Mladic reporte at JNA ceremony in Obreno- vac, Serbia (1st appearance in 6 wks); E. Sla. Serbs reported to believe that peace agreement means they can hold ref. on sov. in 2 yrs.; HDZ to get 75 of 127 seats in new Sobor (lower house), still short of 2/3rds majority for amending constitution; Zoran Macai, ally of Arkan, found guilty of in- citing murder in Hun., given 10 yrs. in Serbian prison, and Marinko Magda sen- tenced to death in absentia for 6 murders in Vojvodina; 4 other members of Arkan's Tigers also given jail terms Nov. 15 CSM correspondent Rohde tells of fresh burial sites, possibly mass graves in E. Bos., says Serbs are tampering w/ evidence; NATO comm. of rrf meets w/ top govt. officials in Sara. to plan NATO deployment; Rus. DM Grachev says Rus. has rt. to veto NATO orders for its troops in Bos.; Tudj. leave Dayton talks w/ no explanation, spec. that it is due to Blaskic controversy; Bos. Mus. arrested in Netherlands at request of wct on suspicion of war crimes; Mac. becomes 27th member of NATO PfP; Yugo. army forces conduct maneuvers in Mont. Nov. 16 UNPROFOR reports 8 shells fired by govt., Serbs in Sara.; Perry rejects Rus. posi- tion, says they can only pull troops out; War Crimes Trib. hands down new indictments against Kara., Mladic charging them with genocide in attack on Sreb. for ordering (Kara.) and participating (Mladic) in exe- cutions of thousands; prosecutor Goldstone meets with US admin. to try to convince them to include the surrender of these two as condition of peace accords, but admits that White House would not give assurances; Milo. reportedly holding out to try to get sanctions against Bel. removed; Bos. govt. demands in writing that agreement requires all signers to 'arrest, detain, and transfer' indicted individuals to trib.; US criticizes Cro. for giving accused war criminals posi- tions in Cro. army, but Cro. PM Matesa says Cro. has no intention of turning over 6 in- dicted Bos. Croats since charges have not been substantiated; Bos., Cro. agree to link dinar (Bos.) and kuna (Cro.) based on the Deutschemark and go into effect Jan. 20; Kosovo group Coun. for the Def. of Human Rts. and Freedoms says it will give WTC documents which could lead to Milo. indict- ment and that of Serbian police chief Zoran Sokolovic, others; Mac. joins NATO PfP pro- gram; Italian govt. officials in Mac. offer 24 bil. lire ($15 mil.) loan for small and medium size enterprises Nov. 17 US, UN contend Milo., Yugo. army rebuild- ing Bos. Serbs' comm. network, repairing air def. systems, conf. UN report dated Oct. 30, says hel. and fixed-wing tran- sports spotted making regular night flights into BL with parts to repair Serbs' planes; House of Reps. votes 243-171 to bar Clinton from sending troops to BH unless Cong. ap- proves money in advance; Tudj. back in Day- ton for talks; Chris. meets twice with Milo.; Albright meets with UN Sec. Coun. ambs. to discuss possible removal of sanctions; Zubak says he will not sign Dayton accord unless Bos. Croat int. are taken into ac- count; UN in Sara. says that Bos. govt., Bos. Croat forces denying UN free movement; Newsday says wct may hand down indictments against Cro. DM Susak; Mac. pres. Gligorov well-enough to hold talks with PM Crven- kovski at his home Nov. 18 Bos. Serbs reported to be removing bodies of massacres, disposing of some of them in abandoned mine in Ljubica (?); 8 Mus. found after hiding in forest near Sreb. 130 days; Sacirbey resigns saying this will make way for Bos. Croat in power-sharing arrangement, but sources say it is because of rivalry w/ Silajdzic and the direction of peace neg.; Sacirbey comments 'a bad peace is better than a war'; State Dept. says 'significant gaps' between parties on 'all the major issues', Chris. making rounds between sides to close gaps, and may have promised to equip and train Bos. army should Serbs fail to disarm Nov. 19 Christopher tells neg. they have until 10 am Monday to conclude deal, terr. issues said to be sticking pt.; Ethnic Cro. and Min. of Jus. in Bos. govt., Mato Tadic re- signs; Yugo. leg. for. pol. chairman Borisav Jovic says Bel. not prepared to turn over accused war criminals to wct but says 'we will prosecute criminals if there are any' Nov. 20 Chris. foregoes threat to call off talks, holds extra day of meetings as Milo. and Serbian delegation prepare to leave, State Dept. calls this 'great theater'; Cro., Serbian FMs sign agreement on release of all detainees Nov. 21 Peace agreement reached providing for Bos. Serb rep. and Mus-Croat fed. within the rep., parties cooperating with intl. auth. on prosecuting war crimes; Sara. to remain intact under govt. control, land corridor to link BL with E. Bos., status of Brcko to be left to intl. arbitration, land corr- idor to be set up between Sara. and Gor., withdrawal to agreed positions and monitor- ing of forces by NATO; Each rep. to retain own armed forces, but central govt. to have control over for. pol., trade, monetary pol., citizenship, immigration; Elections to be held next year to choose pres. and parl.; Shared pres., cons. ct., and fed. govt. to be est.; Indicted war criminals to be banned for life from politics; Refs. to be allowed to return to homes or re- ceive 'just compensation'; Mil. annex to treaty calls for gen. arms reduction talks to begin within 30 days, no importing wea. of any sort for 90 days after pact signed and no heavy wea. (tanks, art. 75mm. or above, mortars of 81mm. or above or aa wea. of 20mm or above) for 180 days; arms within Bos. would have to be divided e- qually among all parties; Izet. says 'to my people: This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than a continuation of war'; Milo. comments 'No party should re- gret the concessions which were given', calls it 'just solution' since Serbs get more land than in previous agreements; Krajisnik says 'The agreement that has been reached does not satisfy even a minimum of our interests' and says they have warned Milo. that 'no one has the right to sign such a plan'; Yelt. calls accord a 'big step'; Agreement also calls for lifting arms emb. on Bos., and an end to sanctions against Serbia Nov. 22 UN Sec. Coun. votes 15-0 to lift eco. sanc- tions against Yugo., and 14-0 (Rus. ab- stains) to ease arms emb.; eco. sanctions kept on Bos. Serb areas until Serbs withdraw to buffer zones, ; Izet. warns that war will be renewed if Serbs back out of agreement; Bos. Dep. PM Jadranko Prlic says on Cro. TV that he carries out the state policy of Cro. Nov. 23 Bos. Serb leadership agrees to go along with peace accord after meeting with Milo. (Kara., VPs Nikola Koljevic and Biljana Plavsic, and Krajisnik, and Mladic dep. all present at meeting; Kol. only one considered moderate) Nov. 24 Kara. says on Bos. Serb TV 'the time has come to use pol. means to achieve our goals', but heads of Serb-held suburbs remain de- fiant; Kara. and Krajisnik both say their demands ignored at neg. by Milo.; Milo. meet w/ Yugo. pres. Lilic and Mont. pres. Bulatovic to consider what to do if Bos. Serbs reject peace accord; Bos. army loots UN base as pks prepare to leave, Croats burn- ing and looting in area to be given to Serbs in NW Nov. 25 Thousands of Serbs protest in Serb-held Sara. suburbs; Kara. says agreement must still be ratified by Bos. Serb parl., and that Sara. remains sticking pt., that it should be renegotiated Nov. 26 US officials say they will not renegotiate accord while Kara. says Sara. will 'bleed for decades'; US Nat. Sec. advisor Anthony Lake says US expects Milo. to 'be able to enforce discipline on the Bos. Serbs [and] that the cf will hold' Nov. 27 Clinton says in nat. speech that risks are necessary because America's 'interests and values demand it'; public/pol. support for plan mixed; 1,400 NATO troops including 735 Americans to leave for Bos. within days, and 1,200 NATO troops including 700 Americans to set up hq in Zag.; US Joint Chiefs of Staff approve 'mission statement' to reinforce 18-page mil. annex to Dayton accords, statement says pks 'not respon- sible for elec. sec., conducting human. missions, or clearing mines', 'mission 'is not disarmament; it will not attempt to collect and control weapons'; annex also gives troops right to use force in face of perceived threat; More reports of Croats (possibly HVO) burning, looting Serbian property while BL Cro. bishop Komarica calls on Cro. troops to respect Serb property Nov. 28 Chirac calls for giving Bos. Serbs greater sec. guarantees, but US says Dayton accord to be signed as is in Paris; Austria pledges 300 troops for IFOR; Clinton admin. officials lobby Congress for support; Reps. generally resigned to mission; public opinion polls generally negative about mission; Albright comments 'this is not an agreement that the US has forced down anybody's throat' and that troops would be there 'to implement a peace and not to be part of a war' Nov. 29 Serbs expel 93 sick, elderly Mus. from BL area; Hun. parl. votes 312-1 to allow US troops to stage deployment from Hun. terr.; Czech Rep. offers to send 1,000 for IFOR; Perry states US will arm Bos. within 6 mths. if talks prove unsuccessful in arms reduc.; Tudj. meets w/ Iranian FM Velayati in Zag. to discuss 'trilateral coop.' w/ Bos., Iran, Velayati says lifting arms emb. will mean Iran will begin wea. supplying to these two Nov. 30 Rocket fired from Serb suburb hits building in Sara.; Silajdzic rejects Chirac call for more sec. guarantees saying Serbs enjoy same protections as everybody else; Def. Sec. Perry says costs of deployment will probably be $2 billion, not $1.5 bil. and re- quire 32,000 instead of 20,000 troops, says in testimony before Cong. that 5,000 would be necessary for backup in Cro., and 7,000 support personnel will be needed in Hun., Italy; costs to be $1.2 bil. for Bos., $500 mil. for support units, and $300 mil. for missions including flying air ops. out of Italy, says 'these are costs which are not in the present budget'; Dole says of criticism in Cong. it is 'time for a real- ity check in Cong.' and that 'we should find a way, if possible, to support our men and women in Bos.'; Greece agrees to est. dip. rel. w/ Bos.; Slo. recognizes FRY; Frankfurter Allgemeine reports Milo. purg- ing hardliners from govt. including ideol- ogist Mihailo Markovic and Borisav Jovic; UN extends mandate in Cro. for 45 days, Bos. 2 months, Mac. 6 months Dec. 1 NATO Coun. agrees to send 2,600 'enabling force' to Bos. to prepared for deployment; Chris. says US forces 'will not be asked to guarantee the success of dem. of reconstruc- tion or to act as a police force', says 1st 6 months of deployment will be used trying to convice Serbs to reduce their arsenal but that since this is unlikely, 2nd 6 months to be used to ensure Bos. govt. to get wea., training; Chris. says US will not directly arm or train Bos. forces, but will 'coor- dinate' other nations' doing it; Clinton defends pol. by noting that NATO allies assisted US in Persian Gulf and Haiti crises Dec. 2 Mladic, in first remarks since Dayton accords signed, demands changes in Sara. governance saying 'we cannot let our people live under butchers' rule...Serbs cannot agree with the maps; Bos. govt. liason to UN mission in Sara., Hasan Muratovic, asks for change in NATO deployment plan due to pro-Serb bias of Brig. Gen. Jean-Rene Bachelet who had de- scribed Sara. plan as unworkable and said Serbs would have to choose between 'the suit- case and the coffin' under Mus.-Croat rule; Muratovic accuses Fre. of providing fuel to Serbs for civ. buses during Serb protests; UN denies it Dec. 4 NATO deployment begins with 28 soldiers (Fre., Bri., Bel, and Americans) arriving in Sara.; 56 Bri. comm. experts arrive in Split; Pentagon orders 3,800 reservists to prepare for duty in Bos.; Sara. Serbs say they will hold ref. on Dec. 12 on peace accord to allow Sara. Serbs to make their views known; Fra. orders Gen. Bachelet back home due to comments; Cro. says 3 mil. mines laid in that country after '91 and 100,000 unexploded shells remain Dec. 5 Bush, Ford back Clinton on issue of American leadership despite doubts about mission; Dole forced to postpone Senate resolution supporting deployment but only with 'condi- tional authorization' in face of Sen. cri- ticism; res. also calls for 'immediate effort, separate and apart' from pk force to arm and train Bos. army; Secret meeting held between reps. of Cro. INA oil firm and Yugo. firm Jugopetrol on reopening Adriatic oil pipeline Dec. 6 First 12 Americans arrive in Tuzla to help in refurbishing airport; Perry says Clinton plans to begin bringing troops home in Oct.; Chris., Kozyrev meeting in Brussels, say pact can be carried out so as to take ac- count of Serb complaints but that it cannot be renegotiated; US intel. says 2 Fre. pi- lots shot down on Aug. 30 have been killed by Bos. Serb captors; Bri. pk officer says he witnessed Bos. Croat police setting fire to 2 villages to be handed over to Serbs in c. Bos., UN condemns action Dec. 7 Bos. Serbs expel 60 more Mus. families from village of Dubrave in BL area, fly Serb flags over their houses; Bos. Cro. auth. release from jail in viol. of accords mil. comm. Ivaca Rajic indicted for '93 Stupni Do massacre, US protests; Cro. FM Granic says Cro. wants to coop. w/ wct regarding Dario Kordic but also says Cro. wants to defend him; UN demands Cro. forces stop scorched earth pol. in C. Bos. of terr. to go to Serbs, also says Serbs have been blocking access to Gor. for week; Perry says US not approaching the peace accords 'as psycho- logically neutral'; US dips. urge Bos. govt. to send 2,000 Islamic fighters home; UN pro- tests forced eviction of 60 Mus. families in N. Bos. Dec. 8 Izet. tells Hol. that it will remove for. Islamic fighters by mid-Jan. or even before, and ensure Serb safety; FMs from 52 countries meet in London to discuss coordination of re- building efforts for postwar Bos.; Fre. FM de Charette demands immediate release of 2 Fre. pilots, says this could endanger peace process, and sets deadline of Dec. 10; Fra. demands Dayton accords be known as 'Elysee Treaty', State Dept. calls this 'very imaginative'; Serbia announces large in- creases in mil. spending (mil. annex allows Serbia 5:2 advantage over both Cro., Bos.); Serbian Renewal Movement head Vuk Dras- kovic first opposition leader to accept Dayton accords; OSCE agrees to oversee elec., arms control and human rts. in Bos. (Fra. opposes US candidate for job) Dec. 9 Peace Implementation Conference in London begins, appoints Bildt as coor. of civ. ef- fort; Hol. meets with Milo., appeals for release of 2 Fre. pilots; 3 C-130 Hercules transports bring 110 US soldiers to Taszar airfield in Hun. to est. staging area (1st NATO forces to be stationed in Hun.); Clin- ton says in 60 Minutes interview, US troops should leave after a year, that even if war breaks out again, 'we gave them a chance'; Fre. For. Min. tells Serbs there will be 'hits' and 'strikes' against them if they don't give info. on 2 pilots by Sun., Chirac says Milo. personally responsible for info. about them; Krajisnik says Karadzic should attend peace conf., that 'full pol. ind.' for Republica Srpska has been agreed to; World Bank estimates rebuilding costs to be $4.9 bil., promises $600 mil. emer. money Dec. 10 22 US Marines, 32 special forces troops ar- rive in Sara.; Kara. says peace accord sign- ing means war 'will come to a definite end'; UN War Crimes Tribunal rejects Rus. request for freeze on proceedings against Kara. so that he could attend peace signing; tribu- nal orders release of Bos. Cro. soldier ac- cused of killing Bos. Serbs after Bel. re- fuses to give evidence to support indict- ment; Fre. say they have not heard from Serbs on fate of 2 downed pilots by dead- line; Bos. Cro. parl. approves Dayton ac.; Izet. promises all for. Islamic fighters to be gone within 30 days; Bos. Cro. forces in Mrkonjic Grad blocking 5 Bri. APCs, also move reporters out of city Dec. 11 Yugo. army Chief-of-staff Perisic says Fre. pilots to be handed over to Yugo. auth. by 12th, Mladic reported to have been using their release as means to get indictments against him dismissed; Serbs reported to be fleeing Sara. subs.; Kosovar 'shadow state' to open info. office in Wash. Dec. 12 Fre. pilots turned over to Yugo. auth. by Bos. Serbs, then to Fre. auth., both Fre., US officials deny that deal was cut w/ Bos. Serbs for release; Bos. Serbs in Sara. area vote to reject Dayton accords while Bos. Const. Assembly votes to accept it; Zag. ct. gives prison sentences of 10-20 yrs. to 18 rebel Serbs for destruction of village of Skabrnja, deaths of 43 Croats in '91; Dole, McCain tell Clinton they want US to assure arming of Bos. govt. and to clarify this pt. before Sen. vote on de- ployment; Clinton replies that he intends to keep promise on getting assistance to Bos.; Bri. amb. to Wash. says this will harm impartiality of pk forces; US to fly U-2s over Bos. from Fre. airbase Dec. 13 Clin. leaves for Paris before cong. votes on deployment; House votes 287-141 to support troops but criticizes decision to send them; Sen. defeats sim. res., 52-47, rejects House-passed bill to cut off Def. Dept. fund- ing, 77-22, adopts Dole-McCain res., 69-30 to offer qualified support for mission; House leaders say they will refuse to vote on Dole res. Dec. 14 Milo., Tudj., and Izet. sign peace accord in Paris; Izet. says his govt. 'taking part ...without any enthusiasm', but that sign- ing 'is being done with full sincerity on our part'; Milo. comments that peace 'is the only path open to civilized men', later on Serb TV tells Bos. Serbs that 'room for fears or worries does not exist' Dec. 15 Sec. Coun. auth. deployment of NATO troops in Bos. Dec. 16 NATO Sup. Allied Comm. in Eur., Gen. George Joulwan, issues activation order for Oper. Joint Endeavor saying 'the mission is clear: limited in time and scope and w/ robust rules of engagement'; 826 US troops from 5th Corps land in Kaposvar, Hun.; 922 NATO troops already in Bos. (200 Amer. w/ 80 in Tuzla), 915 in Cro.; Fog continues to prevent deployment of troops to Tuzla as 12-20 planes unable to land Dec. 17 Heavy fog prevents US troops deployment in Tuzla for 4th day, with some NATO planes being redirected to Sara.; 2 trains en route from Hun. to Zupanja, Cro. (137 miles e. of Zag.) w/ US troops, equip. to build bridge across Sava; Bos. Serbs meet on Mt. Jahorina (above Sara.), conditionally ac- cept accords with 10-pt. list of objec- tions, but reject war crimes charges against Kara. who says they 'do not con- sider the Americans our enemies' and that 'Dayton represents an overal defeat of the Serbs'; Bos. govt. denounces Serb comments Dec. 18 Break in weather allows 16 transport planes to land in Tuzla; airstrip still unlighted, new ground radar system installed; Yugo. amb. to UN (former FM) Vladislav Jovanovic sends letter to Sec. Coun. accusing Bos. Mus. of having carried out massacre of thousands of Mus. in Sreb. Dec. 19 Sara. gets lights as new elec. line paid for by Ger. is turned on; Bri. Maj. Gen. Sir Michael Walker arrives in Sara. to help coordinate NATO troops; 7 US C-130, 1 C-17 cargo planes bring more troops and food to Tuzla; unnamed 48-yr. old Serb arrested in Dusseldorf on sus- picion of having been involved in genocide; Bos. Serb premier Rajko Kasagic calls on Serbs to coop. w/ IFOR 'because our future will depend on such coop.', says stealing intl. vehicles to end; Albright says Jovanovic has insulted intelligence of Sec. Coun., accusations a 'big lie' Dec. 20 Adm. Leighton Smith formally takes command of NATO forces replacing UN comm. Gen. Janvier, mil. auth. tranferred to NATO at Sara. airport; Smith says NATO is not 'a bunch of cowboys looking for a fight', but 'on a peaceful mission'; Mon. pres. Bula- tovic says Bel. won't recognize Cro. un- til Prevlaka Pen. dispute settled Dec. 21 Comm. of US forces in Bos., Maj. Gen. Wm. Nash says all parties beginning to pull back, clear mines, indicates coop. w/ all groups and that he had been in Serb terr. for lunch; bridge allowing US troops to cross Sava R. delayed due to weather; Mus., Croats est. joint army and police commands to report to one another; UN Sec. Coun. passes res. rebuking Jovanovic for blaming Sreb. massacre on Mus., blames instead Bos. Mus.; Smith meets w/ chiefs- of-staff of 3 forces in Sara., all promise coop. in pulling back, following accords; Serbia, Croatia resume civ. telephone ser- vice for first time in 4 yrs.; Dep. Comm. of Rus. forces in Bos., Maj. Gen. Nikolai Staskov meets w/ Mladic in e. Bos. town of Han Pijesak despite prohibition of this in Dayton accords, Rus. explains it as not ef- fecting them until their forces are deploy- ed in Jan.; OSCE names Swiss dip. Gret Haller as human rts. ombudsman for Bos. set up under Dayton accords Dec. 22 All sides begin pulling back from conf. lines, reported to be assisting in demoli- tion of checkpts. (sides to withdraw 1.2 miles from conf. lines within 30 days); Some Serbs reported to be digging up coffins of dead, fleeing Sara. despite Serb auth. trying to prevent them, govt. encouraging them to stay; Serbs in BL release Bishop Komarica from 7 months of house arrest; Gligorov says he will return to work in Jan., that Mac. remains 1 of 6 equal successors to Yugo. Dec. 23 Small arms fire hits US C-130 transport, Bri. heli. near Sara., Adm. Smith says 'I hope the parties will knock it off. It's stupid, and it's very dangerous. I put the onus on the leaders to find out who did it and to stop if from happening again' and 'if we see who's doing it they will come under direct fire, and if we learn who's doing it we will have them apprehended', but US 'Target acquisition radar' for detecting hostile fire not in place yet; Civ., mil. officials, including Smith, say Bos. Serbs have been cooperative in allowing freedom of NATO movement into Bos. Serb terr.; Gen. Nash says Sava bridge should be in place by Dec. 29; EU neg. Bildt says he does not expect NATO mission to solve problems in 1 yr. Dec. 24 Bos. govt., Serbs exchange 245 prisoners w. of Tuzla including some who were taken prisoner in fall of Sreb., 2nd exchange of 28 (14 from each side) near Sanski Most but NATO spokesperson says Serbs prisoners in poor condition while govt. troops look to have been treated well and w/ their possessions; Bri. heli. fired on as it flies over Cro-held Jajce, source of shots not determined (5th such incident); 8 US Apache and Blackhawk heli. of 1st Armored Div. land in Tuzla, Fre. pks take control of checkpts. n. of Sara., resort in Ilidza to be NATO hq; Rus. Maj.-Gen. Nikolai Staskov meets w/ Mladic despite prohibition Dec. 25 Christmas mass held in Sara. Cath. cathe- dral to standing-room only with Mus. attending also; Cro. Cardinal Kuharic calls for all Cro. Serbs who fled to return home if they declare themselves loyal citizens Dec. 26 NATO says Mladic sent Smith letter previous week asking for delay in Sara. reunification by 6 months, say they want reply by Jan. 6th (Orth. Christmas), Smith says he was noncommittal but also that he has auth. to modify some Dayton deadlines; Dayton agreements stipulate that NATO comm. must not have communication with indicted war crimi- nals; 8 Bradley fighting veh. of 1st Armored Div. cross pontoon bridge over Sava to se- cure other bank, 2nd column of Amer. troops leaves Tuzla, goes 40 miles n. into zone of separation to secure building for meetings of mil. commanders of all sides; US troops set up first checkpt. in Brcko corridor Dec. 27 Govt., Serbs pulling back from front-line positions near Sara. according to treaty deadline; Bos. govt. protests Smith offer to consider Serb request to delay reunifi- cation of Sara.; Gen. Nash meets w/ leaders of 3 armies in Posavina Corridor to discuss Amer. deployment; 400 Fre. pks forced to evacuate near Mostar due to flooding; Unidentified gunman fires auto. wea. into area occupied by US troops, no one injured; Bri. pks find 12 bodies near Sanski Most probably result of retreating Serb forces; Fre. Def. Min. admits Serbs under Mladic's direction beat, abused 2 Fre. pilots; ICRC says all sides preventing them from proper access to prisoners Dec. 28 US suspends sanctions against Serbia, Mont.; Sava River flooding forces US troops to evacuate; 35,000 IFOR troops now in Bos., Cro.; Joulwan in Bel. for meetings w/ Milo., others Dec. 29 Nash promises Sava bridge to be open with- in 24 hrs.; Smith makes first trip to BL, now says he has no auth. to change dead- line except by several hours for purely mil. or logis. reasons and that only EU moderator Bildt could do more; UN says airlift will end next week now that roads are open; EU admin. in Mostar, Hans Koschnik, says talks have broken down on where to draw city's borders Dec. 30 US mil. vehicle hits mine, wounds 1st US soldier, Spc. Martin Begosh Dec. 31 US armor begins crossing into Bos., gets caught in traffic jam 1 block in, but begins deploying throughout Posavina Corridor on Rt. Arizona (road to Tuzla)