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Date: 22 Nov 1992 19:32:29 -0600
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11/22/92  DEMIREL VISITING BRITAIN...

   ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish premier Suleyman Demirel
left Sunday for Britain, apparently seeking support for
Turkey's bid for European Community membership.
   "In the process of Europe's reshaping, Britain has been
providing us great support," Demirel said before departing.
"Britain is defending Turkey's ... place in Europe," he
added.
   Demirel will also visit Brussels on Tuesday for talks
with Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission.
The commission is the EC's executive body.
   Turkey applied for EC membership in 1986. The application
has been shelved because of the country's economic lag and
fears of a flood of unemployed workers swamping other EC
countries.
   Turkey on Friday became an associate member of the
Western European Union, which is developing as the EC's
defense arm.
   Demirel said he would discuss the war in Bosnia-
Herzegovina with British Prime Minister John Major during
his 24-hour visit.
   Turkey, having religious and ethnic ties with besieged
Bosnian Muslims, has been urging limited Western military
intervention to stop Serbian attacks.
   In a news conference Saturday, he suggested another topic
might by the extension of the mandate of the Western air
force based in Turkey protecting Iraqi Kurds from Saddam
Hussein's forces.
   Britain, which has eight warplanes in the 48-plane force,
has proposed talks involving itself, the other contributors
-- France and the United States -- and Turkey before the
Turkish Parliament decides on the issue. The mandate expires
at the end of the year.
   Turkey, along with Syria and Iran, has expressed concern
about Kurdish efforts at gaining autonomy. All the three
countries also have restive Kurdish minorities.


U.N. CONFIRMS TYPHOID OUTBREAK IN BOSNIA

    By Hugh Pain
    SARAJEVO, Nov 22, Reuter - The United Nations has
confirmed an outbreak of typhoid in Bosnia, bringing new
misery to thousands of civilians and war refugees sheltering
in towns under heavy Serb attack.
    Confirmation of cases of the disease came as NATO and
the 10 Western European Union (WEU) countries began a naval
blockade in the Adriatic to prevent oil and strategic
materials reaching Yugoslavia in defiance of a seven-month
old U.N. embargo.
    The U.N.'s World Health Organisation (WHO) said in
Geneva that around 25 cases of typhoid had been confirmed
recently in the area of Jajce, a mainly Moslem town that
fell to Serbs at the end of last month.
    However, the WHO statement said "this figure is regarded
as a considerable under-estimate of the true number."
    The WHO said the source of the disease, which can be
fatal if not treated, was almost certainly infected water in
Jajce after its water system was damaged during heavy
fighting for the town of 10,000.
    Many refugees from Jajce and other fallen towns in the
region fled to Travnik, a major town in central Bosnia
guarding the route south to the capital Sarajevo. Travnik is
the latest target of heavily-armed Serb forces pushing to
extend their territory.
    On Saturday, villages on the outskirts of the town of
70,000, including refugees without food or shelter, were
reported to be under heavy artillery and infantry attack.
    On Sunday, a British U.N. unit with five Warrior
armoured cars went to assess the situation in Turbe, a
village just outside Travnik where the Moslem and Croat
defenders are basing their defence of the town.
    Their leader, Colonel Bob Stewart of the Cheshire
Regiment, reported intermittent shelling of Turbe, some of
it while he and his troops were there.
    Stewart said he had the impression their presence in the
area had a calming effect on the situation, and he had
decided to leave a platoon of 30 men in Turbe, without
specifying for how long.
    The prospect of a major onslaught on Travnik, and a
subsequent flood of refugees from it, has raised concern
among international relief organisations in the area who say
there is nowhere for them to go because camps were already
bursting at the seams.
    "There will be no future for these people," one senior
official said.
    There was also heavy fighting reported in Gradacac in
the north, the last Moslem-controlled town in a corridor
linking Serbian controlled areas in Croatia with Serbia
proper.
    Bosnian radio reported that shelling during the night
had killed three civilians and a soldier and set alight 16
houses in a nearby village. Infantry attacks backed by
artillery were continuing on Sunday, it said.
    "The aggressor is preparing an even stronger offensive,
bringing in tanks and infantry units from (nearby) Banja
Luka," the radio added. "Luna M65 surface-to-surface
missiles have been deployed in the region to replace the
Serb's air arm."
    The United Nations forced the Serbs to ground their air
force after it was used to attack towns under siege.
    Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic complained to the
U.N. that the Serbs might also be bringing missiles to
Travnik.
    Meanwhile, the naval blockade of Serbia and Montenegro
came into force at 1600 GMT aimed at ending the flouting of
U.N. sanctions imposed on them for their support of Bosnian
Serbs.
    The main aim is to halt the flow of oil into Serbia.
    In Sarajevo, the U.N. commander in Bosnia, Brigadier
General Philippe Morillon, said on Sunday he believed all
the combatants in the former Yugoslav republic sincerely
wanted peace.
    "I have to trust everybody who I meet because if not I
would have to admit the whole thing was a mockery," he told
reporters.
    But officers serving with the U.N. Protection Force
(UNPROFOR) said privately they believed the Serbs would not
give up any territory they have conquered as the price of
ending the war.

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Paramus NJ 07652            330 Madison Avenue (32nd Floor)
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