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From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: German troops arrive in Mogadishu
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 2:37:28 PDT

	BONN, Germany (UPI) -- A group of 200 German soldiers arrived in the
Somali capital Thursday after spending the night in a French garrison in
the small African state of Djibouti amid concern for their safety.
	The troops, part of the first group of the main German contingent for
Somalia, were due to fly to Mogadishu Wednesday but their flight was
rerouted to Djibouti because the ship carrying their vehicles and other
supplies had not yet arrived.
	A military spokesman said the soldiers spent the night in French
military barracks in Djibouti.
	The Bonn government, which has faced sharp domestic criticism for
deploying the troops, is appparently keen to keep the soldiers in the
battle-torn capital as little as possible.
	The 200 men who arrived Thursday and another 51 who flew to Mogadishu
the previous day are due to take delivery of their equipment and drive
immediately to Belet-Huen, 180 miles north of the capital.


    

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: Bosnian president expected to attend new partition talks
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 2:51:15 PDT

	GENEVA (UPI) -- The co-chairmen of the former Yugoslavia peace
conference still expect Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic to attend
new talks Friday on partitioning the republic despite continued heavy
shelling of Sarajevo, a spokesman said Thursday.
	A spokesman for the mediators -- Lord David Owen for the European
Community and Thorvald Stoltenberg for the United Nations -- said the
latest round of negotiations is scheduled to begin around noon Friday.
	``The latest word we have is that President Izetbegovic will be
present,'' the spokesman said.
	Also attending will be Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs
who under the proposed partition of Bosnia will obtain by far the
largest amount of territory.
	The other Bosnian participant will be Croatian faction leader Mate
Boban, who backs the Serbian side as Croats would also obtain more
territory than they had before the beginning of the process of ``ethnic
cleansing'' of Muslim regions.
	Owen and Stoltenberg were still uncertain, however, as to how many
members of the collective Bosnian presidency would turn up.
	Several Muslim hardliners want to continue fighting, arguing that
acceptance of Serbian proposals for partitioning Bosnia on ethnic lines
would mean formal recognition of ethnic cleansing, with all the deaths
and suffering it has entailed and still entails.
	The peace conference co-chairmen originally wanted to divide Bosnia
into 10 largely autonomous regions with a weakened central government
and avoid ethnic partitioning.
	But last week they reluctantly accepted the reality of the situation
on the ground and now want Muslims to go along with Serb-Croat proposals
for three ethnic regions within a loose confederation.
	Otherwise, the co-chairmen said Wednesday that they ``shudder for the
future'' of Bosnia as winter approaches.
	Izetbegovic had made his participation conditional on the ceasing of
the shelling of Sarajevo by Serb forces.
	Those attacks became even more violent during the night but Owen and
Stoltenberg hope that hostilities will at least ``calm down'' as the
talks begin, aides said.
	The co-chairmen said they intend to keep the negotiations going on a
continuous basis until a final settlement is reached and, if talks are
hindered by new all-out fighting, they will name those responsible -- so
far they have avoided such finger-pointing.


    

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: Third Roman Catholic bishop in Nicaragua calls for U.N. security forces
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 19:03:00 PDT

	MANAGUA (UPI) -- A Roman Catholic bishop in the city of Esteli Monday
became the third to call for U.N. security-force intervention in
Nicaragua in the wake of an occupation by former army members last week.
	About 150 former army members occupied Esteli, 100 miles (160
kilometers) north of Managua on Wednesday and Thursday under the command
of former army Maj. Victor Manuel Gallegos, who allegedly took d 6
million from bank branches there. The Sandinista Popular Army put down
the rebellion, capturing 59 rebels, injuring 45 and killing 41.
	``The dignity and peace of this country demands that we have the
humility to apply for aid in this vitally important area,'' Esteli
Bishop Juan Alberto Mata said Monday.
	President Violeta Chamorro has rejected the idea, arguing that
Nicaragua is not at war and the measure would violate national
sovreignty.
	Mata said the Sandinista Popular Army has failed to respect citizens'
rights. In a radio message, he called for restructuring of the army and
the National Police. Both are controlled by the Sandinistas, who held
the presidency before Chamorro took office in 1990.
	Roman Catholic prelates Bosco Vivas and Miguel Obando y Bravo earlier
made similar demands.
	The three bishops said they are convinced that peace cannot be
restored with the army and police forces that now are in place.
	``We suggest that neutral forces be requested and that they help us
create a patriotic consciousness in the nation's soldiers,'' Mata said.

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: New round of Bosnian peace talks gets underway
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 1:42:59 PDT

	GENEVA (UPI) -- U.N. and European Community mediators on former
Yugoslavia began Tuesday a new and decisive round of talks on the
partitioning of Bosnia-Herzegovina into three states.
	Thorvald Stoltenberg for the United Nations and David Owen for the EC
said before the negotiations began that they intended to keep Bosnian
Serbs, Croats and Muslims in Geneva until a settlement is reached.
	They warned that if the talks collapse because of renewed all-out
fighting they will ``make it clear who is responsible.''
	Owen for his part warned the Muslim side that rejection of a Serbo-
Croat proposal to split Bosnia-Herzegovina into three regions within a
loose confederation would lead the Muslims getting nothing with Serbs
and Croats simply dividing the former Yugoslav republic between
themselves.
	Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic, backed by Croatian president Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian Croat
leader Mate Bon, further propose that the capital Sarajevo become an 
``open city.''
	Talks began with Thorvald and Owen meeting at 0800gmt with Ambassador
U.S. Reginald Batholomew, President Bill Clinton's special
representative to the ex-Yugoslavia conference.
	The two mediators then had a noon (1000gmt) meeting with Milosevic
and Karadzic -- the two men behind the Serbian policy of displacing
Muslims.
	Bosnia-Herzegovina's President Alija Izetbegovic, a Muslim, together
with four other members of the collective presidency in Sarajevo, were
then seeing Owen and Stoltenberg at 2 p.m. (1200gmt).
	Izetbegovic concedes he has no choice but to accept three states but
wants Bosnia-Herzegovina to remain a federated republic with Sarajevo
the capital. He also has said he will not meet face to face with the
Serbs and Croats unless all attacks cease on Muslim ``safe areas.''
	Finally Tuesday, Croats Tudjman and Boban were convened for 6 p.m.
(1600gmt).
	Conference spokesman John Mills told reporters there would not be any
plenary meeting Tuesday with all sides sitting at one table.
	Instead, the two co-chairmen would be practicing shuttle diplomacy by
seeing the various factions separately until they felt it was opportune
to hold a plenary gathering.
	The talks were being held at the Palais des Nations, the huge
building overlooking Lake Geneva which is the European headquarters of
the U.N. and once the pre-World War II home of the ill-fated League of
Nations.

From: [email protected] (ERIC JOHNSON)
Subject: Reality of defeat dawns in flood-ravaged Quincy
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 12:59:20 PDT

	QUINCY, Ill. (UPI) -- For weeks, the Bayview Bridge symbolized
Quincy's stubborn fight against the flooding Mississippi River.
	Now the barren bridge pictures the reality of defeat and an uncertain
future for this western Illinois city of 40,000.
	The closing of the bridge is just one of the major disruptions
residents will have to endure until the water recedes -- probably in a
month or more. Floodwaters also have closed factories, swamped homes and
ruined crops in almost all the surrounding river bottoms.
	Sunday, a levee break south of the city closed a section of the
Central Illinois Expressway, the only four-lane link to the east. And
National Guard helicopters continued to fly over the city Monday en
route to flood battles downstream on the Mississippi and Illinois
rivers.
	The long-term impact of the flood was slowly dawning on residents
who, until a week ago, were frantically filling sandbags or rallying
behind the effort to protect hundreds of miles of levees on both sides
of the river.
	``The effects are now starting to be felt in the city,'' said real
estate agent Kent Rodemich. ``Before, everyone was just in shock. But
now you can tell it's starting to bother a lot of merchants.''
	Those merchants depend on Missouri customers for about one-third of
their business. Now the one-time customers can't cross the river without
driving 90 miles out of their way to the bridge at Keokuk, Iowa.
	Also, hundreds of workers have been idled because floodwaters closed
the Celotex paper mill, Brunswick cabinet factory and other major
employers on the riverfront.
	City officials are considering hiking the local sales tax to make up
for lost revenue caused by the retail slump.
	At a meeting last week, U.S. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena
told Mayor Chuck Scholz that Washington would help establish a ferry
service between the city's riverfront and Missouri. But officials aren't
sure a ferry can safely steer around miles of submerged buildings,
electric poles and debris.
	More than 2,000 people in a low-lying section of the city and six
nearby towns have been left homeless.
	Quincyans can't get to their jobs in nearby Hannibal, Mo., attend
classes at Hannibal-LaGrange College or escape Illinois taxes on
gasoline and cigarettes by patronizing the service stations now under 20
feet of water in West Quincy, Mo.
	Quincy school officials say they'll open on time next month, but
they've told dozens of teachers who live in Missouri to fend for
themselves or risk losing their jobs.
	Another blow to community morale came last Thursday when officials
said the West Quincy levee might have been intentionally broken by a
saboteur. Police are investigating a report that a man fled from the
area just after the levee broke July 16, flooding the 5-mile-long
approach to the Bayview Bridge and 14,000 acres.
	Disaster officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have
set up shop in a middle school to take applications from affected
farmers, the jobless and homeless. But officials say business has been
slow.
	``They're a pretty proud people,'' said Roger Henderson, a state
worker processing farmer aid applications. ``It's an entirely new
circumstance for them.''


    

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: Mediators open new Bosnian talks
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 15:00:54 PDT

	GENEVA (UPI) -- The leaders of the warring Bosnian factions met
Tuesday for their first direct talks in three months, reporting progress
but no agreements after an unexpectedly early move into a session
involving all sides.
	The talks, opening amid a new Serbian military offensive against
Sarajevo that threatened to take control of the Bosnian capital, began
with international mediators warning the Bosnians they now faced few
real choices.
	The mediators, their aides said, realized the latest Serbian peace
plan would amount to endorsement of Serbian ``ethnic cleansing'' in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, but they now believe there is no other realistic
solution to end the bloodshed.
	The mediators, Thorvald Stoltenberg of the United Nations and Lord
David Owen of the European Community, managed late Tuesday to get the
heads of all sides in the Bosnian conflict together at one table for two
hours.
	The negotiators, who had not planned to try to get all sides together
until Wednesday, made no comment afterward.
	Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said afterward, ``There was
progress,'' and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said, ``There was
some progress,'' but neither they nor other participants commented
further.
	Earlier in the day -- in separate meetings with the mediators -- the
Serbian and Bosnian government sides presented opposing proposals on how
to partition Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	Spokesman for the two co-chairmen said the talks would continue
Wednesday with the mediators trying to reconcile the two proposals.
	Karadzic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosovic and were the first
to meet Owen and Stoltenberg at the Palais des Nations, the U.N.
European headquarters set in a park overlooking Lake Geneva.
	The two Serbian leaders repeated their proposal for partitioning
Bosnia-Herzegovina into three ethnic states within a loose confederation
that would have little central authority.
	Their proposal, backed by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and
Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban, would make the Bosnian capital Sarajevo
an open city.
	Karadzic told reporters he was ``pessimistic'' about the chances that
a settlement could be reached and said he would remain in Geneva ``for
two or three days'' only.
	Owen and Stoltenberg had asked participants to remain at the talks
for as long as it takes to reach an agreement.
	Izetbegovic and four other members of the multi-ethnic Bosnian
presidency met with the co-chairmen in the afternoon, presenting a
revised version of an earlier plan that Karadzic's aides told reporters
was unacceptable because it did not create distinct ethnic states for
Serbs, Croats and Muslim Slavs.
	The new Bosnian government proposal said in part: ``Bosnia-
Herzegovina is a federal state consisting of several federal units. The
federal units are neither national states nor national territories and
they do not bear a name which would identify them with some of the
nations of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	``When constituting the federal units, the natural geographical,
economic, demographic, traffic, cultural and tradition elements, as well
as the ethnic composition of the population are taken into account,'' it
said.
	Karadzic's aides, in rejecting the new Bosnian government plan, said
the Bosnian Serbs ``certainly want their own independent state.''
	The Bosnian Serbs also rejected Izetbegovic's proposals that the
various regions have no right to enter into international agreements,
and that a central government have authority over such matters as
foreign affairs, taxes, and monetary and economic policies.
	Bosnian Serbs and Croats also rejected Izetbegovic's call for Bosnia-
Herzegovina to be ``progressively demilitarized.''
	Izetbegovic previously had suggested that Bosnia-Herzegovina be made
a U.N. protectorate, but he modified that aspect in his latest plan.
	He instead called for ``international supervision'' of the creation
of various ``federal units'' and ``international guarantees'' for the
return of all displaced persons and refugees to their homes.
	Before the latest round of talks began, Owen and Stoltenberg warned
the Muslim-led Bosnian government side that unless it accepts the Serbo-
Croat plan, the Serbs would simply take over the entire former Yugoslav
republic and divide it with the Bosnian Croats.
	Owen and Stoltenberg also had meetings in the late evening with
Croats Tudjman and Boban, although the sessions were seen as mostly a
formality given the overwhelming military power of the Serbian forces.
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From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: Caravan sponsors rebuff assistance offer from Customs Service
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 17:32:08 PDT

	LAREDO, Texas (UPI) -- The sponsors of a truck convoy carrying
material bound for Cuba rejected an offer from the U.S. Customs Service
Tuesday that would have expedited clearance to cross into Mexico.
	The 95-truck convoy, carrying about 100 tons of humanitarian aid to
Cuba, began arriving Monday in Laredo on a journey to Tampico, Mexico
where the goods will embark on a freighter to Cuba.
	The caravan, called U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment, is being coordinated by
Pastors for Peace, a Minneapolis-based project of the Interreligious
Foundation for Community Organization, in defiance of the U.S. blockade
of Cuba. The group considers the U.S. policy immoral and illegal.
	The Customs Service said Tuesday that after the group rejected the
offer, Customs officials in Laredo appealed to Pastors for Peace ``for
their cooperation in heading off any confrontation on Thursday, when it
is expected that the Pastors will try to export goods to Cuba in the
face of a 30-year-old U.S. trade embargo.''
	``We've requested a meeting with them, but they are not willing to
come in and peacefuly discuss the requirements and logistics,'' Laredo
District Director Audrey Adams said. ``We have offered to pre-inspect
their supplies so as to expedite clearance of the humanitarian aid, but
again we were turned down.''
	Elizabeth Flannery of the Pastors for Peace said 300 volunteers are
driving the caravan. It was scheduled to stop along 12 separate U.S.
routes to pick up collections of powdered milk, medicine and medical
supplies, school supplies, bicycles and bicycle parts and Spanish
langauge Bibles.
	After all the trucks arrive at Laredo, the drivers will hold a two-
day orientation. The caravan is scheduled to cross the U.S. border into
Mexico on Thursday.


    

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: Bosnia-Herzegovina faction leaders to meet face-to-face
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 0:41:50 PDT

        GENEVA (UPI) -- The latest and probably decisive round of talks
on Bosnia-Herzegovina went into a second day Wednesday with the mediators
able to arrange meetings between Muslims and the Bosnian Serb and Croat
factions.
        U.N. and European Community mediators on former Yugoslavia
began Tuesday a new and decisive round of talks on the partitioning
of Bosnia-Herzegovina into three states.
        Thorvald Stoltenberg, for the United Nations, and David Owen,
for the European Community, co-chairmen of the former Yugoslavia conference,
began work at 9:30 a. m. (0730 gmt).
        At that time, they brought together Bosnian President Alija
Itzegovic, a Muslim, and other members of the collective presidency
in Sarajevo together with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian
Serb leader Mate Boban.
        Then, at 11;30 a.m. Itzebegovic and his colleagues were meeting
face-to-face with Serbian President Slovodan Milosevic and Bosnian
Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, again with Stoltenberg and Owen sitting
between the two sides.
        At 3 p.m. (1300 gmt), the mediators scheduled a session for
all heads of delegations together.
        Commenting on remarks about ``some progress'' after a plenary
session Tuesday evening, aides to the co-chairmen cautioned that the
word progress basically meant the ability of Owen and Stoltenberg to
get all parties together.
        Before the negotiations began Tuesday, the international mediators
said that they intended to keep Bosnian Serbs, Croats and Muslims in
Geneva until a settlement ws reached.
        They warned that if the talks collapse because of renewed all-out
fighting they will  ``make it clear who is responsible.''
        Owen for his part warned the Muslim side that rejection of
a Serbo-Croat proposal to split Bosnia-Herzegovina into three regions
within a loose confederation would lead the Muslims getting nothing
with Serbs and Croats simply dividing the former Yugoslav republic
between themselves.
        Milosevic and Karadzic, backed by Tudjman and Boban, further
propose that the capital Sarajevo become an ``open city.''
        Izetbegovic concedes he has no choice but to accept three states
but wants Bosnia-Herzegovina to remain a federated republic with Sarajevo
the capital. He also has said he will not meet face to face with the
Serbs and Croats unless all attacks cease on Muslim  ``safe areas.''
        The talks were being held at the Palais des Nations, the huge
building overlooking Lake Geneva which is the European headquarters
of the U.N. and once the pre-World War II home of the ill-fated League
of Nations.


    

From: [email protected] (NESHO DJURIC)
Subject: Fighting flares in Bosnia despite Geneva peace talks
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 7:09:49 PDT

	BELGRADE (UPI) -- Serbian and Croatian forces Tuesday fought the
Muslim-led Bosnian government army at Brcko in northern Bosnia-
Herzegovina as ethnic leaders of the three factions gathered in Geneva
in an attempt to bring peace to the former Yugoslav republic.
	About 1,000 Muslim Slavs, mostly women, children and old men, fled
their villages south of the strategic town of Brcko in front of
advancing Serbian forces and headed south towards Muslim-held enclaves,
said state-run Sarajevo radio monitored in the Serbian capital of
Belgrade.
	Serbian forces used tanks, howitzers and mortars during an infantry
assault overnight on the Muslim villages south of Brcko, the radio said.
The attack rendered heavy damage to civilian targets but no casualty
figures were available.
	Serbian military commanders said the Croatian army across the Sava
River early Tuesday fired 16 shells from multiple medium-range rocket
launchers on Serbian positions south of Brcko, the Belgrade-based
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said.
	Sarajevo radio said Serbian forces used helicopters with guided
rockets in their attacks Monday against Bosnian army positions south of
the ethnically mixed Muslim-Croat-Serb town on the Sava River bordering
with Croatia.
	Brcko is the major strategic town on the Serb-held corridor linking
Serbia with Serb-occupied territories in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
	Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, a Muslim, headed his republic's
delegation in Geneva for talks on the future of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	Izetbegovic opposes a Serbo-Croat plan to partition Bosnia into a
confederation of three ethnic states in which the 1.9 million Muslim
Slavs would be given only small part of the republic.
	Bosnia's pre-war population of 4.4 million also included 1.4 million
Serbs, 750,000 Croats and nearly 400,000 members of other ethnic groups.
	Izetbegovic advocates a sovereign Bosnian federation with autonomous
regions which would not be carved along ethnic lines.
	The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina began in late March 1992 when Serbs,
backed by the Yugoslav army and the Serbian regime in Belgrade, launched
a land-grab campaign to capture 70 percent of territory for their self-
declared Serbian state.
	Croatian HVO militia and Bosnian government troops now control each
about 15 percent of the republic's territory.
	Fighting raged in central and southern Bosnia as Croatian HVO militia
and Bosnian government troops fought to gain territorial control before
a peace accord is reached on ending the 16-month war.
	Bosnian troops Tuesday controlled the central town of Bugojno, 50
miles (80 km) northwest of Sarajevo, as thousands of Croatian villagers
fled state-run radio in the Croatian capital of Zagreb said.
	Bosnian troops and Croatian HVO militia were engaged in infantry
clashes and artillery duels were reported in the area of Maglaj,
Zavidovici, Zepce, Novi Seher, 60 miles (100 km) north of Sarajevo.


    

From: [email protected] (NESHO DJURIC)
Subject: Fighting flares in Bosnia despite Geneva peace talks
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 7:09:49 PDT

	BELGRADE (UPI) -- Serbian and Croatian forces Tuesday fought the
Muslim-led Bosnian government army at Brcko in northern Bosnia-
Herzegovina as ethnic leaders of the three factions gathered in Geneva
in an attempt to bring peace to the former Yugoslav republic.
	About 1,000 Muslim Slavs, mostly women, children and old men, fled
their villages south of the strategic town of Brcko in front of
advancing Serbian forces and headed south towards Muslim-held enclaves,
said state-run Sarajevo radio monitored in the Serbian capital of
Belgrade.
	Serbian forces used tanks, howitzers and mortars during an infantry
assault overnight on the Muslim villages south of Brcko, the radio said.
The attack rendered heavy damage to civilian targets but no casualty
figures were available.
	Serbian military commanders said the Croatian army across the Sava
River early Tuesday fired 16 shells from multiple medium-range rocket
launchers on Serbian positions south of Brcko, the Belgrade-based
Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said.
	Sarajevo radio said Serbian forces used helicopters with guided
rockets in their attacks Monday against Bosnian army positions south of
the ethnically mixed Muslim-Croat-Serb town on the Sava River bordering
with Croatia.
	Brcko is the major strategic town on the Serb-held corridor linking
Serbia with Serb-occupied territories in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
	Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, a Muslim, headed his republic's
delegation in Geneva for talks on the future of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	Izetbegovic opposes a Serbo-Croat plan to partition Bosnia into a
confederation of three ethnic states in which the 1.9 million Muslim
Slavs would be given only small part of the republic.
	Bosnia's pre-war population of 4.4 million also included 1.4 million
Serbs, 750,000 Croats and nearly 400,000 members of other ethnic groups.
	Izetbegovic advocates a sovereign Bosnian federation with autonomous
regions which would not be carved along ethnic lines.
	The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina began in late March 1992 when Serbs,
backed by the Yugoslav army and the Serbian regime in Belgrade, launched
a land-grab campaign to capture 70 percent of territory for their self-
declared Serbian state.
	Croatian HVO militia and Bosnian government troops now control each
about 15 percent of the republic's territory.
	Fighting raged in central and southern Bosnia as Croatian HVO militia
and Bosnian government troops fought to gain territorial control before
a peace accord is reached on ending the 16-month war.
	Bosnian troops Tuesday controlled the central town of Bugojno, 50
miles (80 km) northwest of Sarajevo, as thousands of Croatian villagers
fled state-run radio in the Croatian capital of Zagreb said.
	Bosnian troops and Croatian HVO militia were engaged in infantry
clashes and artillery duels were reported in the area of Maglaj,
Zavidovici, Zepce, Novi Seher, 60 miles (100 km) north of Sarajevo.

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: U.S. increases contribution to Nepal flood relief effort
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 93 10:50:19 PDT

	KATMANDU, Nepal (UPI) -- The U.S. embassy in Katmandu announced
Tuesday $211,000 in relief assistance in addition to $25,000 already
donated by the American diplomatic officials to help the victims of
flooding in Nepal.
	The U.S. embassy said the additional money will pay for
transportation costs for medicine that a group of French doctors brought
into the kingdom.
	A seven-member French medical team with 12 tons of medicine arrived
in Katmandu Monday evening and was to depart for the flood-affected
areas Tuesday, a Home Ministry officer said.
	It was first foreign medical team to arrive in Nepal after the Health
Ministry launched an international appeal for medical assistance.
	The toll from a month of flooding in Nepal on Monday passed 1,700
dead and missing, relief officials said.


    

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: Clinton says U.S. ready to protect U.N. peacekeepers
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 6:21:16 PDT

	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Bill Clinton said Wednesday he will 
``seriously consider'' using U.S. air power in Bosnia-Herzegovina to
defend United Nations peacekeeping forces under Serbian siege in
Sarajevo if asked to do so.
	Clinton said Washington has received no formal request for air
support, although officials have talked with the French, whose ground
forces have been shelled.
	``Let me say that we have always said that if the U.N. troops were
attacked, we would do our part to protect them,'' Clinton told
reporters.
	``I'm very upset with the shelling of Sarajevo,'' the president said.
``The United States has always had the public and private position, and
we have made it very clear, if we are asked (to provide air cover) it is
something we would seriously consider.
	``We have not yet been asked to do that,'' he said. ``If we are asked
that is something that we will give good consideration to.''
	U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher cut short his trip to Asia
to return to Washington Wednesday to consult with Clinton on Bosnia and
the fighting in southern Lebanon.


    

From: [email protected] (UPI)
Subject: Clinton says U.S. ready to protect U.N. peacekeepers
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 6:21:16 PDT

	WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Bill Clinton said Wednesday he will 
``seriously consider'' using U.S. air power in Bosnia-Herzegovina to
defend United Nations peacekeeping forces under Serbian siege in
Sarajevo if asked to do so.
	Clinton said Washington has received no formal request for air
support, although officials have talked with the French, whose ground
forces have been shelled.
	``Let me say that we have always said that if the U.N. troops were
attacked, we would do our part to protect them,'' Clinton told
reporters.
	``I'm very upset with the shelling of Sarajevo,'' the president said.
``The United States has always had the public and private position, and
we have made it very clear, if we are asked (to provide air cover) it is
something we would seriously consider.
	``We have not yet been asked to do that,'' he said. ``If we are asked
that is something that we will give good consideration to.''
	U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher cut short his trip to Asia
to return to Washington Wednesday to consult with Clinton on Bosnia and
the fighting in southern Lebanon.