Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 10

AIO Wadnoaday October 28 1992 Richmond Thnea-OHpateh Farmer told to repay loan from jackpot ii i Muslims Croats reach 1 shaky truce i The Associated Press SARAJEVO iMtoMSHto Muslim and Croat leaders yesterday agreed to a cease-fire in a town near Sarajevo but their anti-Serb coalition in the Bosnian war remained shaky The Belgrade-baaed Taqjug news agency that Serb and Croat forces in the western parts of the Herzegovina region agreed to a three-day cease-fire and an exchange of prisoners Croatian militiamen overran the Muslim-held town of Prinor after four days of fighting according to Muharem Savic commander of Muslim-led government forces there He said its 3000 inhabitants had been forced to flee No casualty count was released But Croatian officials denied taking the town 30 miles west of Sarajevo The situation could not be independently checked Both sides met yesterday and agreed to pull their fighters from the town according to a Bosnia-Herze-govina army spokesman and Croatian television reports In Belgrade TRqjug said the Mut-lim-Croat agreement reached Monday included commitments to set up hot lines to prevent dashes The news agency gave no details on the extent of territory covered by the truce or cm how many prisoners would be freed It said prisoners would be exchanged Sunday Bosnian officials said they had no knowledge of the cease-fire Bosnia's war began when Serbs rebelled against the majority Muslims and Croats who voted for secession from Yugoslavia on Feb 29 Muslims and Croats had been nominally allied but Croats have increasingly joined Serbs in demanding the partitioning cl Bosnia-Herzegovi-na along ethnic lines Serbs and Croats have seized control of virtually all of Bosnia during fighting that has killed mere than 14000 people It now appears that Croat militias are content to fight alongside government troops where Serbs still threaten Croat interests but also are pre-d to challenge Mualims in DCMSOCKIDHCM NO ARMS ALLOWED An amiod guard at a In downtown North Mogadtahs The The Associated Press grand rapids Mkh A dairy farmer who recently won a $6 million lottery jackpot was ordered yesterday to pay part of it to the bank he says forced him into bankruptcy 3H years ago Raymond Cook saya rather fight than pay not the money it's the principle of the he said alter the ruling in US Bankruptcy Court Old State Bank of Fremont threatened to foreclose on Cook's 280-acre farm 60 miles north of Grand Rapids after he ran into hard times and racked up debts of more than a half million dollars The farm has been in his family for nearly SO years FM for bankruptcy He filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcy in March 1989 The plan allows farmers to keep their land and sets up a schedule to repay part of their debts The bank had been ready to accept a loss of about $135000 until wife Mary Lou bought two Lotto tickets at a grocery stem in August The couple won an after-tax check for $226000 every year for die next 20 years The family used some of its first payment to expand its herd from 40 to 70 cows buy a used car build a bam and 'fix up their 90-year-old farmhouse which a bankruptcy appraiser described as They plan to keep farming $563000 In debts Of his $563000 in debts Cook owed nearly $300000 to the bank and about half of that was secured with Under the initial court plan he would pay back the bank all of the outstanding secured debt of about $150000 and 10 percent or about $15000 of the unsecured debt Now been ordered to pay back all the unsecured debt Although Cook nearly was finished paying off his secured creditors the bank and the bankruptcy trustee went to court to force Cook to reimburse in full all cl his unsecured creditors mMHMVNI pnM Ml mm have no problem paying the rest of them except for Old State Bank" Cook said cl the unsecured creditors "With all the shenanigans pulled on me I wouldn't be here in bankruptcy court in the first place if it for Cook 48 accused the bank of unfairly closing his checking accounts when he fell behind on his payments and generally "making my life Envoy to Somalia offers to resign Eluding warlords catted The Associated Press quently wondered aloud why some UJf agencies in Somalia He once noted that while only about a dozen hospitals were still operating in the chaos and anarchy that have enveloped the country the World Health Organization waa nowhere to be found Sahnoun waa in Mogadishu yesterday but was not available for comment One Security Council diplomat said resignation would devastate the humanitarian relief program to Somalia That sentiment was reflected among private aid agencies in Mogadishu "The NGOs non-governmental organizations want him to said David Shearer of Save The Children-UK think doing a Moody good job "He understands going on here There are very few people Trim understand the situation as well as he UN headquarters in New York than with warlords In New York chief UN spokesman Joe Sills said the resignation letter received by the secretary-general and it is under He declined to comment further UN diplomats in New York said they understood Sahnoun offered to resign after being reprimanded by Boutros-Ghali for criticising UN efforts in Somalia Sahnoun was often unhappy with what he saw as a slow response by die United Nations to the Somali criaia aaying quicker intervention would have saved lives He repeated that allegation on CBS-TVs on Oct 18 echoing statements made to The Associated Press and others as far back as August Sahnoun also was critical of some UJf personnel sent to Somalia describing them as inexperienced and inept And hie fre MOGADISHU IwmHs The special UJf envoy to Somalia who has both criticised and spearheaded the United effort to save millions of starving people on the Horn of Africa has offered to resign Mohamed Sahnoun a veteran Algerian diplomat found feuding warloads had put up obstacles to hia efforts to feed the hungry masses his office in Mogadishu said But UN sources in the Somali 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