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                                          NEWS: EVENING BULLETIN

          GOLDSTONE ON PROSPECTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

New York, Washington, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - The main ICTY
prosecutor R. Goldstone held a press conference at the UN seat,
after meeting B. Ghali. Asked if presidents Milosevic and Tudjman
would be accused of crimes, Goldstone repeated it was not fair to
name the persons under investigation before it was over. "If we
accuse top officials, it means there is enough evidence to
support the charge. Public will be informed on all data we are
provided." Goldstone said he recently had very useful talks in
Brussels and Sarajevo about cooperation between NATO and the B-H
authorities and that last November and those days he was
furnished with valuable data from the USA authorities on already
charged persons, those under investigation and those against whom
the investigation is to be started. Goldstone stressed the duty
of Croatia, B-H and FRY is to arrest the criminals specifying
Croatia's duty in case of T. Blaskic. Goldstone denies the
charges against the USA on obstructing ICTY, but says that since
recently the USA has given more importance to the work of ICTFY.
Theft in the Zagreb UN office did not affect the data on crimes
committed against Serbs in Croatia which ICTY also has.
Exhumation of the graves in B-H starts in early spring. Among 7-8
states offering prisons for those indicted by ICTY is B-H and one
more state of ex-Yugoslavia considers the option. Serving a
sentence will be the UN responsibility whose inspectors could
visit the cells without announcement.
     After the meeting of Goldstone with the state secretary
Christopher, the State Department spokesman N. Burns said the US,
its main financier, took the duty of providing further aid to the
Tribunal for which over 2O Americans work. "We go on supplying
Tribunal with data on the crimes. I do not think we have the
evidence to charge president Milosevic," says Burns. (end) A.S.

          PERMANENT CONTACT TUDJMAN-MILOSEVIC - USEFUL, SAYS OWEN

New York, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Lord David Owen held a
lecture for the UN diplomats, organized by the International
Peace Academy, about the post-Dayton situation in ex-Yugoslavia.
     "Croat-Serb relations are the key to the peace in the
Balkans. So, it was very important that throughout the war
(in)direct contact between Tudjman and Milosevic had been
maintained," said Owen. (end) A.S.
     
          MASS GRAVES NEAR VLASENICA

Tuzla, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Foreign reporters believe that
near Vlasenica, eastern Bosnia, there are mass graves where Serbs
in 1992 buried the killed Bosniak civilians. The IFOR US armored
1st divison's 2nd brigad, commanded by col. John Batista, is in
Vlasenica now. (end) A.S. 


          US ISLAMISTS IN BOSNIA

Washington, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - The USA has admitted that
among the mujjahids in Bosnia there is a US citizen Kevin Rafael
Holt from Washington, renown for several pseudonyms (in Bosnia as
Abdullah Isa Ali), under which he fought on the Islamists'side at
several battlegrounds in the world including Afghanistan (trained
at the CIA camp to Pakistan), and close to extremist Palestinian
groups and Egyptian "Al Gamma al Islamiyya." (end) A.S.
 
          JOSHUA MURAVCHIK ON THE US POLICY TOWARDS BOSNIA

Zagreb, Washington, Jan 28, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Expert in the US
foreign policy, Joshua Muravchik, from the American Enterprise
Institute to Washington, told Croatian daily "Vjesnik": 
     "Most Americans know that Serbs are bad guys and Muslims are
victims. I do not know what they think about Croats as the US
attention was focused on the war in Bosnia. Those who hold the
view that "they all are equally bad and responsible" do not speak
their minds. They think they want to have nothing with what is
going on in the Balkans, trying to find the argument for that.
(...) The worst period of the US foreign policy, being bad all
the time, was summer 1993, when the state secretary Christopher
toured Europe presenting the US plan for B-H - lifting the arms
embargo and air strikes against Serbs. It was rejected but he had
not insisted on the US plan. If he had, Europeans would have said
"OK". When he returned to the USA, the administration made effort
to diminish the importance of war in B-H, Christopher claimed the
USA "do their best". Before facing the Congress, he demanded from
the associates to find the data in the documents on B-H to help
him make a list of crimes committed by Muslims. He wanted excuse
for turning back on B-H. People from State Department refused it
and resigned. (...) The Dayton agreement mocks at the procedure
of the International Tribunal as it releases the main criminal S.
Milosevic of any quilt. The part on the arms control specifies
the forces ratio leaving FRY a dominating military power at that
area. There is not clear definition of the supervision. It means
always that the most unscrupulous one gains." Besides the option
he supports - the international affairs' rules must be defended,
enabling a long-term protection of the US security, Muravchik
said there are realistic and isolationist option in the foreign
US policy, both being against the US involvement in Bosnian war.
The former because "it is not the area of our interests", the
latter "since our concern should be economy & internal affairs."
So, Baker and Bush were realists and Clinton looked like idealist
before 1993 but proved to be isolationist - says Muravchik: "Some
papers I read show that in the middle of the last year, Clinton
told his associates: >>Bosnia will be a problem, we are entering
the year of elections, I want results<<." Muravchik reminds that
the USA have two vital reasons for support of B-H: by defending
the principle, to send a message to new Milosevics in the
unstable eastern Europe, and leave extreme Muslims without the
argument claiming that the West lets Christians kill Muslims only
because of their religion. (end) A.S.�## CrossPoint v3.02 ##