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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:22:27 -0500
From:         "VALENTINE M. SMITH" <CDELL@UMKCVAX1.BITNET>
Subject:      Russia, Georgia, Germany and Bosnia, (#762)
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Russia-

CNN reported this eveing that the first ever international auto show
opened in Moscow today. Up to now, only apparatchik types could get a
car, and Western cars were frowned upon.

Georgia-

RFE/RL reported today that the Georgian military commander in Abkhaz
delivered an ultimatum to Abkhaz Parliament Chairman Ardzinba -
resign or face attack on his headquarters at Gudauta. Also, the
ultimatum demands that all units of Confederation of Mountain
Peoples  withdraw from Abkhazia. Ardzinba apparently is willing to
negotiate with Yeltsin and Shevardnadze, provided Abkhazia and the
North Caucasus are represented in the talks. His presence at such
talks would appear unlikely. The Russian Justice Ministry is claiming
the North Caucasus involvement with Abkhazia by sending fighters into
the fray is "illegal," a "violation of the Russian consitution," and
the Russian public prosecutor threatens legal action against the
Mountain Peoples Confederation and its leaders if disengagement from
Georgia doesn't occur.

Germany-

A fourth night of rioting in Rostok left 65 policeman hurt, 58
arrested, as neo-Nazi and criminal youth, in some cases egged on by
local residents, attacked a hostel that had housed Romanian gypsies
"for several years," NPR reported this morning. The mob reportedly
wielded "baseball bats, iron bars, and gasoline bombs." Last night 12
policemen were injured in melees.

Bosnia-

Talks on the war in Bosnia began in London with a walkout of R.
Karadzic, and his Croatian Serb counterpart, from the talks because
they had only been granted observer status, and not a seat at the
table, NPR reported this afternoon. Meanwhile, as the fighting in
Sarajevo intensified today, UN Secretary General Boutrous-Gahli and
UK Prime Minister John Majors reportedly laced into a group of
Serbian leaders for pressing the conflict onward as they allegedly
have.

Acting US Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, who earlier in the
week had announced he'd retire in January no matter who is elected
President, flew to London today, and demanded that the Serbs end the
siege of Sarajevo and other Bosnian cities, and called for a
stengthening of sanctions against the Serbs, NPR reported this
morning.


Much of Sarajevo is reportedly burning, the dead are reportedly
laying in the streets, no compromise is in sight. I think the London
talks will fail, and the West will not intervene until after the US
election. It gets no better, and the fighting grows more intense. I
feel the most for the poor devils being pounded every day by
relentless Serb artilly, mortar and grenade attacks in Goradze and
Sarajevo especially. A sad business, and no problem-solver in sight,
or none has yet to appear. VMS
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