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A4 The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, July 11, 1995 World BALKANS BRIEFLY baffle Pytelh peaceEeepers i to" i of peacekeepers hostage and shooting at aircraft. But Kees Nicolai of the Netherlands, the UN chief-of-staff in Bosnia, told the Serbs on Sunday the detention of the 30 Dutch peacekeepers won't affect his decision on using air power, said 'UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko. France has proposed using a European Rapid Reaction Force, created in early June to bolster the peacekeepers in Bosnia, to help the Dutch in Srebrenica, French military sources said on condition of anonymity. Some 2,000 French soldiers are in Bosnia, awaiting the arrival of British troops June 16 to complete the force. The Bosnian government has been hesitant Serbs ESCALATION: When the UN threatened Bosnian Serbs with an air strike, the Serbs responded by demanding that everyone leave a Muslim town designated as a 'safe SARAJEVO (AP) Dutch peacekeepers guarding the UN-declared "safe area" of Srebrenica staged a firefight with Bosnian Serb rebels on Monday.

About 80 Bosnian Serb infantrymen attacked Dutch peacekeepers south of Srebrenica at about 7 p.m. local time, said Maj. Henk Schenkers, a Dutch Defence Ministry spokesman in Amsterdam. The Dutch first fired warning shots, then they and Serbs exchanged fire until nightfall, said UN spokesman Gary Coward. There were no reports of casualties.

Shooting continued occasionally into the night. The United Nations, meanwhile, again threatened to call an air strike on Serbian positions, but the Serbs responded by demanding everyone in the Muslim enclave of 30,000 people leave the town within 48 hours. The United Nations warned the '-v safe zone," Coward said. Serbs overran four UN observation posts in their offensive against Srebrenica, which began Thursday, and took 30 peacekeepers to Serbian-held towns. The Serbs have also shelled Srebrenica.

"The streets are deserted, no one is venturing out. They are huddled in terribly overcrowded rooms," with no running water, said Kris Janowski, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The charity Doctors Without Borders, quoting its medical team in Srebrenica, said 10 people died over the last four days and 40 were wounded, most by shrapnel. Meanwhile, concern is mounting for a group of Canadians at two observation posts near their base in Visoko. The Bosnian government army, in the midst of an offensive in that area against the Serbs, has not allowed the Canadians to be resup-plied since mid-June and the posts are running low on food and water.

A total of 14 peacekeepers are at the posts. UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, after meeting in Greece with UN military commanders, indicated he is willing to use air power to defend Srebrenica as well as the UN troops. The Serbs have responded to previous air attacks by taking hundreds CLOSE CALL: A wounded man made by shrapnel from a shell Serbs to cease all attacks by this morning. On Sunday, it threatened to call NATO air strikes if the Serbs attacked the Dutch peacekeepers. NATO officials said they had not received any UN requests by late Monday.

Responding to the warning, the Serbs demanded the 30,000 people in Srebrenica, as well as 4,000 Greenpeace activists land on nuke-test island Reuter photo shows hole in his shoe fired into Sarajevo refugees fleeing the Serbian offensive and about 400 UN peacekeepers, leave the town within 48 hours. They would be granted safe passage starting at 6 a.m. local time today, the Serbs said. Coward called the demand "totally unacceptable. We have a mandate and we are determined to meet the mandate and protect Srebrenica tions." Meanwhile the Rainbow Warrior II was towed out of the exclusion zone by a French tug and Monday night was 24 kilometres northeast of the atoll, where it was still being faces painted white, sat at tables at an improvised French cafe Le Cafe Bombe, they called it and feigned death when another protester dusted them with ashes meant to represent nuclear fallout.

Waiters, meanwhile, served platters with fake bombs lit with sparklers. "There's no such thing as a small nuclear war," said Lise Chi-asson, one of the protesters. Three bus crashes kill 29 in Europe LONDON Three bus crashes in France and Spain early Monday killed 29 people and led to renewed calls for mandatory seat belts on buses. In the worst crash, 22 people were killed and 32 injured in southern France when a bus carrying Spanish students toppled over after clipping a truck. Four people were Kinea in eastern France when a truck struck a bus carrying tourists from Slovakia.

The Spanish accident took place on a main highway in the northeast. Three people were killed and 20 injured. Kashmiris may use hostages as shield NEW DELHI -Kashmiri rebels holding two Britons, an American and a German in the Himalayas may be planning to use the hostages as a human shield to ward off an assault by Indian security forces, Indian officials said Monday. American John Childs, who slipped away from the kidnappers on Saturday, is reported to have told authorities that 15 gunmen are holding the hostages near an ice cave high in the Himalayas that Hindus hold sacred. Thousands of Indian soldiers will soon march in to clear out rebels threatening to ambush Hindu pilgrims.

Minister quits, denies harassing males BONN The deputy head of Germany's governing party quit Monday, amid allegations he sexually harassed male employees in his ministry. Heinz Eggert, 49, deputy chairman of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, denied any wrongdoing. He said he was quitting to protect his wife and four children from further embarrassment. Eggert was also interior minister of Saxony state. The charges against him were made by four ministry employees.

Jewish leader reproaches Walesa WARSAW A top official of the World Jewish Congress, receiving a medal granted by Lech Walesa, used the ceremony to reproach the Polish president Monday for failing to condemn a priest who made anti-Semitic remarks. "Silence in such instances is perceived as acquiescence," congress vice-president Kalman Sultanik said. Walesa, who was not present at the ceremony, waited nine days before issuing a strong statement rejecting anti-Semitism after prominent Gdansk priest Rev. Henryk Jankowski made comments about Jews in his presence during a sermon last month. Dozens of bodies found in Seoul ruins SEOUL Hoping to find more survivors after a sales clerk's dramatic rescue, authorities instead unearthed dozens of bodies Monday at a department store that collapsed 11 days earlier.

The death toll rose to 199, and another 230 people remain unaccounted for from the Sampoong Department Store disaster. Sri Lankan troops kill dozens in church COLOMBO -Sri Lankan forces shelled a church in a guerrilla held northern town, killing at least 65 civilians. Rebel radio said more than 150 civilians were killed in the latest government offensive, including the 65 who died Sunday when six artillery shells hit St. Peter's Church in Navaly, near Jaffna city. Guerrillas capture Peruvian town LIMA Communist guerrillas took control of a town in Peru's Huallaga River Valley and killed up to eight people, military sources said Monday.

A column of 150 insurgents from the Shining Path movement seized the town of Nuevo Progreso late Saturday, then pulled out before the army arrived early Sunday. Bangladeshi teacher hacked to death DHAKA A Bangladeshi teacher was hacked to death try-'ing to stop cheating in secondary school final exams, which began across Bangladesh last week. Police said hundreds were hurt when students fought monitors and police. They said there was savage fighting in the southwestern district of Narail on Saturday, where the teacher was hacked to death. Police rushed in to help but they were attacked by students, parents and supporters.

Citizen news services More world news Pages A5, D10, D12 GLOBAL WARNING: Anti-nuclear demonstrators, like this Kong, gathered at French embassies around the world on Pacific back the protests. By Will Bennett The Independent LONDON Three Greenpeace activists penetrated the exclusion zone around the Mururoa atoll nuclear test site in the Pacific Monday as environmental campaigners continued to play a game of cat and mouse with the French authorities. They entered the zone in a Zodiac inflatable boat launched from the Greenpeace vessel Vega, which remained outside French territorial waters when its sister ship Rainbow Warrior II went inside, only to be rammed by a tug and boarded by 150 commandos. Sally Convery, a Greenpeace campaigner in London, said Monday it was believed the three had landed on the atoll about 1,000 kilometres east of Tahiti in their effort to frustrate French plans to carry out a series of eight underground nuclear tests. The trio are all Greenpeace veterans.

Chris Robinson, an Australian, and Henk Haazen, who has dual Dutch and New Zealand nationality, were both crew members of the original Rainbow Warrior, which was sunk by a French bomb exactly 10 years ago. David McTaggart, a Canadian, took part in protests at Mururoa in the 1970s. Two other Greenpeace activists got ashore and climbed to the top of the rig that drills the shafts for the underground tests. They were arrested by the French after about half an hour. Michael Szabo, a Greenpeace spokesman in New Zealand, said: "What we have shown is that we are capable of breaching the mili- Canadians By Dennis Bueckert The Canadian Press Nine Greenpeace members chained themselves together and occupied the French consulate in Vancouver in one of four Canadian demonstrations against planned French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

The Vancouver protesters were chained in the 12th-floor offices with a complicated system of pipes and chains designed to prevent the I yni .1 about allowing all of the force into Bosnia until it receives full details about its mandate. Serbian attacks on Srebrenica have pushed back the boundary of the demilitarized zone, shaving off part of the enclave to protect a supply road. Bosnian-Serb army headquarters said its troops are attacking government units that made raids from inside the "safe area." A Srebrenica city official, Hajrudin Avdic, said the Dutch wouldn't be allowed to leave if the United Nations didn't protect the town, government radio reported. Viking ship, crewed by Danes. The Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French on Sunday, when commandos smashed down doors with an axe and hurled tear gas canisters inside as they took control.

The 22 crew, six journalists and three other passengers on board were taken ashore but not charged. As protesters gathered outside French embassies around the world, governments in the Pacific heaped criticism on France's decision to conduct the tests and on the storming of the protest vessel. "This is over the top," said acting Australian Prime Minister Kim Beazley. "Tear gas is something you use when a riot has got out of hand, or when the forces of law and order are well outnumbered Our view is that there is a proper response, and this wasn't one of them." Australian and New Zealand called in the French ambassadors to protest France's action. New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bol-ger said: "We expressed the real concern of the New Zealand government as it related to New Zealand nationals on board the Rainbow Warrior.

The French position isn't quite a Gallic shrug of the shoulders, but it's getting close to that." Dominic Gerard, the French ambassador in Canberra, refused to apologize for France's use of 150 commandos to board the ship and to detain the crew of 30. "I don't think it's an overreac-tion," he said. "It took place without violence." The Foreign Affairs Department criticized France following Sunday's early-morning raid on a Greenpeace ship near Mururoa Atoll, the nuclear test site. "The decision by the French to board the Rainbow Warrior was unnecessary and doesn't add anything to resolving the debate with Greenpeace about the resumption of nuclear tests," said a department spokesman. With files from Citizen staff ing over trade and human rights, Taiwan and sales of Chinese nuclear technology to Pakistan and Iran.

Lurking in the background are China's buildup of its own military and its belligerent stance on the oil-rich Spratly Islands, claimed by five other east Asian countries, including Vietnam. Clinton's stroke of fortune, -perhaps, is that the vexed annual issue of China's "most favored nation" trading status does not come around again until next June. Had the Wu affair blown up a few weeks earlier, the president could have been under irresistible pressure to punish China by withdrawing the status, guaranteeing even greater friction. Even so, Congressional rumblings grow louder by the day. Both the Senate and the House have passed resolutions condemning Wu's arrest, while House Speaker Newt Gingrich has urged recognition of Taiwan, in effect demanding an end to the "One China" policy that has prevailed since the Nixon era.

tary security of the nuclear test site. We have demonstrated our ability to disrupt the testing program and we are still in a position to look at future activities which could further disrupt the prepara join international protest against tests use of bolt cutters. Police moved in to arrest the demonstrators but weren't able to separate them. About 100 people showed up for the Vancouver rally, the largest of the four. In Ottawa, about 50 protesters gathered outside the French embassy on Sussex Drive early Monday afternoon for a vocal but peaceful demonstration.

About a dozen young people dressed in white overalls, their WWTS 11 Reuter photo noisy, colorful crowd in Hong Monday. Governments in the shadowed by a French navy frigate. Also in the area outside the exclusion zone is a third Greenpeace ship, the Bifrost. It is a steel-framed fibreglass replica of a "Radioactive fallout kills people." "Since the Cold War ended, I don't feel there's any need or motive to resume nuclear testing," said Chris Elliott, a Carleton University student. Richard Sanders, co-ordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, urged Canadians opposed to nuclear testing to boycott French wine and cheese, for example, as a way of making their views known." including veterans' groups and a clutch of Republican presidential candidates, will disapprove.

So too will Beijing. Vietnam and China are where America's past and future in east Asia intersect. The absence of proper ties with Vietnam is an anachronistic vestige of a war in which some 2,500 American servicemen remain unaccounted for. In fact, no war in history has been followed by such exhaustive efforts to trace those missing in combat, and the restoration of full relations will only speed those efforts. But for those alarmed by multiplying signs of Chinese expansionism, normalization has a second strategic virtue.

Hanoi and Beijing are historic rivals, and the "containment" school argues that stronger U.S. ties with Vietnam can only strengthen the country as a balance to Chinese ambitions in the region. No such logic applies to current relations. Even before the detention and arrest of the Chinese-American campaigner Harry Wu, Washington and Beijing were feud- U.S. recognition of Vietnam threatens to deepen chill in relations with China By Rupert Cornwell The Independent WASHINGTON The restoration of full diplomatic ties between the U.S.

and Vietnam, expected to be outlined by President Bill Clinton today, will have one major unintended side-effect: it will worsen the crisis in relations between Washington and Beijing, set off by China's arrest of a crusading Chinese-American human rights activist on charges carrying the death penalty. According to senior officials, Clinton will make an announcement on Vietnam at a White House ceremony today. Though no details have been divulged, the president is expected to give the go-ahead for normalization of relations with Hanoi, 20 years after the fall of Saigon to the troops of North Vietnam and the end of America's most traumatic and humiliating military experience this century. The move will please Hanoi as well as a considerable lobby in the U.S., ranging from the State Department to business interests and decorated Vietnam war veterans. Others, AP photo BANNER DAY: Cycle-cab driver Nguyen Thi Hop and his son bring a splash of red, white and blue to the streets of Hanoi.

The star-spangled paint job was applied last week for an American-sponsored Fourth of July party. 1.