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2 I l l y r i a English Section
Wednesday, May 27, 1992
DOLECALLSFORBLOCKADE OFSERBIA
STERLING, Kan.
The United States must deal with Serbia’s brutalization of former Yugoslavian republics as it dealt with Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole says.
``A year and a half ago, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and America and the world responded vigorously and effectively,’’ Dole said during commencement ceremonies at Sterling College. ``We now face a new test of America’s leadership, its will, and its commitment to the ideals which have always characterized our nation. We must pass this test, if America is to remain America.’’
As part of a five-point plan, Dole called for an economic blockade of Serbia in retaliation for its attacks in independent Bosnia.
“We have issued tough-sounding statements, put in place some timid sanctions but shied away from consideration of the strong, direct intervention that alone will stop Milosevic,” Dole said. (ap)
SERB NATIONALIST LEADER ESCAPESASSASSINATION
PODGORICA
More than 40 people were injured on Monday evening when a man hurled a hand grenade at radical Serb rally in Podgorica, capital of the republic of Montenegro, police said.
Vojislav Seselj, the nationalist leader of the Serb Radical Party, was slightly wounded in the heel, Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug said quoting medical sources.
None of the 41 injured sustained serious wounds.
The man was soon after arrested by the police who refused to disclose his name, Tanjug said.
Seselj, whom Serbia’s President Slobodan Milosevic recently hailed as the most reasonable of the opposition, is disliked by moderate Serbs and Montenegrins opposed to war. (Reuters)
TUDJMANVOWSTORETAKELAND
ZAGREB
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman vowed on Sunday that Croatia would win back every inch of its territory which had been seized by Serbs.
Addressing a crowd of more than 20,000 people in Zagreb’s main Jelacic Square, he said Croatia had fulfilled its dream of joining the United Nations as an independent nation and had pledged to uphold international law.
“I want to tell the Serb population that you have to realize it is time to stop armed fighting against a sovereign state,” Tudjman said from a bal- cony in the baroque square.
“We have undertaken to respect civil and ethnic rights but we will not accept armed rebellion against the state.” The European Community, fol- lowed by other countries, recognised Croatia and Slovenia as independent
countries in January. Both states and Bosnia Herzegovina, all former Yugoslav republics, took their seats at the United Nations on Friday.
Serbs in Croatia rebelled when Zagreb declared independence last June and now control about two- thirds of its territory. A United Nations peace-keeping force arrived in April to set up protected areas, mainly in Serb-populated areas. (Reuters)
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ILLYRIA
once-sealed frontiers are virtually unguarded and there is little to stop peasants or speculators from moving livestock southward.
This border town about 120 miles southeast of Tirana, the cap - ital, is on one of the main routes. So many livestock are being taken to Greece that the Sunday cattle market often has more people than animals.
After Communism and state authority collapsed last year, peas - ants destroyed government-owned cooperative farms and seized what
ALBANIACRACKS land and animals they could.
``Everyone who had cattle tried to get them over the mountains,’’ ARMS said Shkelqim Jazexhiu, a 34 -
DOWNONILLEGAL
TIRANE
The Albanian parliament, con- cerned at rising levels of crime, has passed legislation cracking down on illegal possession of handguns, with offenders facing up to 15 years in prison.
A law passed on Monday night gives gun owners 15 days to hand in their weapons to police. Unauthorized possession carries a sentence of between five and 15 years’ imprisonment.
The measure was passed in response to a public outcry over the increasing use of firearms in crimes. Police sources say the proliferation of guns was mostly due to lax custom checks and rob - beries of army depots. (Reuters)
ALBANIANCATTLE SOLDINGREECE
BILISHT
Moving carefully through the mountains after dark, herdsmen drive sheep and cattle out of a hungry nation to profitable mar- kets in a land of comparative plenty.
The illegal livestock trade between Albania, Europe’s poor- est country, and Greece, the wealthiest nation in the Balkans, adds to the misery of a population subsisting on food donated from abroad.
No official statistics on the trade are available, but Albania’s
year-old tractor mechanic. ``The prices were nothing short of fan- tastic.’’ (ap)
HURDAGAINSTTROOPS FORBOSNIA
LONDON
Foreign troops would risk getting bogged down if they intervened in the fighting in the breakaway Y ugoslav state of Bosnia Herzegovina, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd says.
“The truth is, no one is prepared at present to send in troops to fight their way into that situation and then get bogged down there indef - initely with no end in sight,” Hurd told British Broadcasting Corporation radio.
Instead, nations must work together to “pile up the pressure” on Serbia to end the war in Bosnia, where more than 2,250 people have died since fighting began after minority Serbs revolt - ed against a Moslem-Croat vote for independence in March.
Hurd said he and other foreign ministers would continue to con- sider military intervention, but only as a last resort.
“Once British troops, for exam - ple, were in, there would be no way of saying how long they would have to stay, what risks, what casualties they would suffer and how they could come out.” Hurd said United Nations troops had got into “considerable diffi- culty” in neighboring Croatia. (ap)
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