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War resumes in Sarajevo amid fears of Serb infiltration SARAf K VO. Bosrim ilem*go v• ina (A!’) — Serb* masqueraded a* peat ekoepers m a new show of audacity Wednesday, driving through government-held por tions of Sarajevo in stolen uni forms and U N vehicles The Serbs refused the Red Cross immediate acc ess to some :t70 U N. soldiers they are holding hostage. But with Western nations increasingly ready to send more soldiers to aid the United Nations. Bosnia's Serbs also appeared ready to keep bargain ing They offered the West new talks on an old offer: releasing the hostages in exchange for a promise of no more NATO attacks. The United States sent an envoy back to Belgrade to try to bridge different*** with Serbia's president over r»n ognition of Bosnia, and President Clinton said the United States would consider dispatching soldiers to help redeploy, not |ust remove, U N peacekeepers The diplomatic maneuvering appeared to help keep tensions from rising further on ih«» sixth day of a crisis that bttgan when NA TO launched airstrikes on Serb ammunition dumps However. Sarajevans were kept on edge hy an outburst of new fighting between Serbs and gov ernment forces, ns well as by the reports of Serf) fighters disguised ns peacekeepers U N offi< mis said Serbs in French uniforms had infiltrated the city in a U N armored per sonnel carrier Along with their hostages, the Serbs have seized 3fi white, U N -marked armored vehit les. including six light tanks They also have dozens of oth er vehicles with U N markings U N spokesman Alexander Ivanko reported additional sight ings of stolen armored vehicles in the city Hasan Muratovu . the Bosnian of(i< ini in i harge of U N relations, said army and-polii « were keeping a "t lose watch on all U N vehit les and personnel " I am definitively not going to Inti hhike m any U N vehit les. said Sarajevo resident Sabina kasu movie A delegation ofjhe Interna tional Red Croas met Wednesday with Serb official* to try to visit the peacekeepers They were promised an answer within two weeks, said Andreas t’fissner hmd of the Ret) Cross delegation Bosnian Serb official Aleksa Buha said the Serbs are follow ing international i (inventions on war prisoners "We are obliged to allow the Red Cross at t ess But I don't know when this will happen." he said, adding the Serbs will do "everything to keep the rorret t attitude toward the prisoners The Seri* are holding 1' N |>er sonnet as insurant e against fur ther NATO airstrikes like those east of Sarajevo last week They have banned all NATO overflights On Wednesday. NATO s.itd a rot ket or missile was fired at a Duti li F-IS, hut missed President Clinton said Withies day he would make II S ground troops available to help reposi tion UN peat i-kcepers m turhu lent former Yugoslavia if asked I tie dot ision represents a sig nificant shift for the admmistra tion. which has promised before only to provide U S troops to evacuate peacekeepers U S envoy Koliert Frasure, in Belgrade, met with Serbian Pres ident Slobodan Milosevit . hop mg he would recognize Bosnia in i'Xi hauge for a suspension of economic sanctions on Serb-led Yugoslavia Hint would damage Bosnian Serb efforts to win state hood Soun es said 85 percent of the agreement had already been reached but that Milosevit want ed the complete lifting of sanc tions or at least additional guar antees that the embargo would not lie reiinposed l be I; S offered the easing of all sanctions esc ept oil imports and Serbia's act ess to interna tional financial markets, the soon >*s -wild All sanctions would be lifted once [*m< i< is established in Bosnia and Milosevii rei og fuzes Croatia I! N S«s rotary \ ameral Boutros Boutros (ibali said Wednesday that (X‘,m (’keepers should not use force He suggested the 22.(MK) member force lie replaced tiy a multinational force authorized to use its firepower But he cautioned that a pullout 'would be tantamount to aban donment of the people of Bosnia His proposal came in a report to the Se< uritv Council outlining options for reforming the U N mission, which only the count i! i an revise Trying to reduce their diplo matit isolation, the Bosnian Serbs offered "urgent talks" on a deal to release the hostages in exchange for promises of no more bombing There was no immedi ate reaction. hut a French Foreign Ministry spokesman earlier had welcomed Serb willingness to talk Fighting forces moved closer to the conflict. A Freni h aircraft t arrier look position off the Adriatii coast levs than I JO miles southwest of Sam jevo I he Dutch and ( /c< li gov ernments plannetl to send rein fori einents of about 100 troops eui h 1 wo thousand I! S Marines also were deployed to the rt*gion Yeltsin says no to relief from Japan DEDOVSK. Russia (AP) — Despite huge logistu s problems (at ed by rescue workers, Presi dent Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday rebuffed Japan s offer of help for earthquake victims. "Russia itself can heal the wounds inflicted by the earth quake," Yeltsin told reporters. Japan, he said, "will take advan tage" of any aid offer, "They will sav: Give us back the islands " Yeltsin was referring to the four southernmost islands of the Kuril chain, whitii Soviet troops seized at the end of World War II Sakhalin Island, hit Sunday by a magnitude 7.5 quake that killed hundreds of people in a remote oil town, is a neighbor of the Kurils Tokyo offered Tuesday to send rescuers and doctors to Sakhalin. But Russia has accepted only emergency supplies The first batch — mostly blankets, medi cine and drinking water — arrived in Sakhalin on Tuesday t he Japanese ere partii ularly concerned because Sunday s quake occurred on the same geo logu al fault as the quake that ntv agod Japan 's western port of Kobe four months ago, killing more than 5,500 people Wednesday was not the first time Russia has snubbed a Japan ese aid offer The same tiling hap pened last year when an earth quake hit the Kurils Amid critu ism of his handling of the quake aftermath. Yeltsin declared Wednesday to be a national day of mourning for quake victims. Flags flew at half-staff on gov ernment buildings in Moscow and at the U S Embassy. 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