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YUGOSLAVIA: SITUATION REPORT
FEDERAL ARM EFFORTS TO SEIZE BORDER CROSSINGSLOVENIA YESTERDAY PROVOKEO SHARP CLASHES WITH RE ^'C Y FORCES WHILE EFFORTS TO RESTART REPUBLIC-FEDERAL TALKS MADE NO PROGRESS. |
CONFLICT INTENSIFIED
SLOVENIA YESTEROAY LOST CONTROL OF HOST OF ABOUT td INTERNATIONAL BORDER CROSSINGS. BUT THEIR FORCES RESISTED CONTINUING FEDERAL PRESSURE. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES. THEY CLAIR AT LEASTEDERAL TANKS AND SIX HELICOPTERS MERE DESTROYED YESTERDAY ANDEOPLE WERE INJURED OR KILLED, INCLUDING CIVILIANS IN TOWNS ATTACKED BY FEDERAL FORCES. THE SLOVENIAN DEFENSE MINISTER LATE YtSTESDAY"SLOVENIA. IS ATPW-lEViX VIOlENCF. CQNJINUEQ IN CROAT IAJ
THE ARHY SO FAR HAS 'OCUSEO ON SECURING BORDER CROSSTNGS IN SLOVENIA. BUT REPORTED FIGHTING AT THE LJUBLJANA AIRPORT MAY INDICATE IT IS BROADENING ITS OBJECTIVES. THE DEPLOYMENT IN CROATIA SUGGESTS THE ARHY IS PREPARING TO SECURE BORDER CROSS INGJUTH !ARY OR TO INTERVENE IF INTERETHNIC VIOLENCE THERE AESORGES.
TALKS STALLED
FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER MARKOVIC YESTERDAY PROPOSED THAT SLOVENIA AND CROATIA ROLL BACK FOR THREE MONTHS ALL THIS WEEK'S MOVES TOWARD INDEPENDENCE IN EXCHANGE EASE-FIRE. SLOVENIAN LEaaU&^SAIOOT NEGOTIATE UNTIL ARMY OPERATIONS CEASED.
COMMENT: SLOVENIAN OFFICIALS SHOW NO SIGN OF REVOKING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. FEDERAL MILITARY LEADERS PROBABLY MILL REJECT ANY PROPOSAL THAT WOULD LEAVE SLOVENIA IN CONTROL OF BORDER CROSSINGS AND STRENGTHEN ITS CASE FOR INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION. IF THE ARMY CAPTURES All BORDER CROSSINCS.EHAY EMERGE, REATHING SPACE FOR TALKS.
SERBIAM OFFENSIVE
THE PRO-SERBIAN BLOC YESTERDAYUMP SESSION OF THE FEDERAL PRESIDENCY AND INVITED THE ARMY TO SUBMIT PLANS FOR MARTIAL LAW. THE SERB ENCLAVES iM CROATIAERCEGQViNA UNITED YESTERDAY. AND IHE SERBIAN REPUBLIC LEGISLATURE MOVED CLOSER TO ANNEXING THEM.
SERBIAN STRONGMAN MILOSEVIC APPEARS TO BE TRYING AGAIN TO STllfTCONTROl OF THE PRESIDENCY. WHICH FORMALLY COMJUNOS THE ARMY. THE MOVES BY THE SERB ENCLAVES WILL BE OPPOSED BY LOCAL CROATS
IMS ANO MAY SPREAD ETHNIC VIOLENCE INTO BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA.l
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