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Subject: EAGLEBURGER SAYS U.S. PRESSING `NO-FLY' ZONE IN BOSNIA
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Contribution by: Croatian-News

Eagleburger Says U.S. Pressing `No-Fly' Zone in Bosnia
By GENE KRAMER
Associated Press Writer

    WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is concerned about the
killing of Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and is pressing allies to
enforce a ban on military flights there, says acting Secretary of
State Lawrence Eagleburger.
    ``We are very sensitive to the Muslim world's view that the West
is permitting killing of Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina while acting
differently in Iraq,'' where ``no-fly'' zones have been declared,
Eagleburger said in a television interview Tuesday.
    A no-fly zone would halt Serbian or Bosnian Serbian air attacks
against U.N. humanitarian flights in the war-torn former Yugoslav
republic. Bosnia has no combat planes. Eagleburger said it would
also mean the Serbians can't use their aircraft to attack Bosnian
Muslims in their policy of ``ethnic cleansing.''
    More than 14,000 people have been killed in Bosnia since Bosnian
Serbs rebelled against a vote in February by majority Muslims and
Croats to secede from Yugoslavia. Serbs, initially backed by the
Yugoslav army, have seized about two-thirds of Bosnian territory.
    Informal closed debates on the flight ban are under way with
Britain, France and other U.N. Security Council members,
Eagleburger said, predicting the result could be a compromise
involving first trying measures short of using force to enforce the
ban.
    ``We had a debate in the U.S. government about it and are having
a debate with some of our allies,'' he said on public television's
``MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour'' program.
    The situations are ``totally different,'' Eagleburger said, but
the United States nevertheless recognizes that ``the Muslim world
looks on aghast as more and more Muslims are killed. There is no
question that this weighed heavily on (President Bush) and all of
us ... and this government tried to demonstrate to the Muslim world
that we care about that and want to do something about that.
    ``The president has decided, and I think rightly so, that the
situation in and around Sarajevo and Bosnia is so disastrous now we
need to move hard and fast to prevent it from becoming worse,''
Eagleburger added. ``But I can understand the French, British or
anyone else'' with ground troops in the area wanting to think
through the consequences.
    Eagleburger disputed a suggestion that the decision resulted
from pressure from Bill Clinton, Bush's Democratic campaign rival,
for stronger U.S. intervention. ``We have been debating this and
... with all respect to the governor, he had nothing to do with
it,'' he said.
    AP-NY-10-07-92 0150EDT
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