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17A Croatia tension mounts as Serbs shift tanks New York Times Zagreb, Croatia Serbia moved 27 tanks toward its border with Croatia Saturday, aggra sevic did not deploy any forces to assist the 15,000 Serbs of western Slavonia. But he would be almost certain to dispatch his army to the defense of eastern Slavonia, a part of Croatia that the Belgrade government would like to annex because of its substantial oil reserves, its rich farmland and its position adjacent to Serbia itself. Kirsten Haupt, a U.N. spokeswoman in the eastern Slavonian Serbian enclave, said thousands of Serbian civilians had been evacuated from villages east of Osijek. The activity reflects the potentially explosive tensions that have arisen from Croatia's onslaught in western Slavonia.

Over 5,000 of the pocket's 15,000 Serbs fled into Serbian-held territory in northern Bosnia. At least another 1,500 have been detained, many are in hiding and an unknown number is dead or missing. From the accounts of refugees, it seems many Serbs perished in heavy bombardments by Croatian tanks, artillery and planes Monday and Tuesday as they tried to flee southward toward the Sava River bridge into Bosnia. The estimate of 450 Serbian dead given by Gojko Susak, the Croatian defense minister, appears conservative. What is clear is that the U.N.

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We regret any inconvenience this may cause you. Star TribuneSundayMay 71995 NOTICE vating tensions in the region that are making the U.N. peacekeeping mission there look increasingly threatened. European Union monitors said they saw tanks of the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav Army moving westward from Novi Sad in Serbia toward the border. The maneuver appeared to be a show of force aimed at deterring peacekeeping force in the midst of the Yugoslav wars been more apparent than over the past week.

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