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                                             NEWS: DAILY BULLETIN

     WISH OF ITALY: GIACOMELLI AS KOSCHNICK'S SUCCESSOR

Rome, March 12, 1996 (Press TWRA) - Italian daily "La Stampa"
printed in Turin and owned by the sisters and brothers of the
Agnelli clan (whose member is current Italian foreign minister,
Susana), releases that Rome supports Giorgio Giacomelli leading
the UN agency of their anti drug-league. Giacomelli does not
belong to any party (Koschnic's membership in Social Democratic
party caused fury of some extreme right Croats to Mostar), has
been long in diplomacy (Koschnick was experienced only in German
interior policy as the Bremen mayor). Besides, Giacomelli is a
prominent expert in campaign against organized crime what shows
how his proposers look at the main problem of Mostar.
     Italian diplomacy confirms that the International Conference
on B-H is to be held in Rome on June 13 and 14, to discuss the
implementation of the London Conference decisions made late last
year. That will occur three weeks before expiry of Italian six-
month presiding over EU. Currently in the EU, Italy and specially
Susana Agnelli are in the company of the states being tolerant
towards Belgrade: mainly Britain, occasionally France. In the
dispute over Mostar, Italy backed European permissiveness towards
Zagreb encouraging Koschnic's resignation, causing displeasure of
Germany. Due to the criticism of nuclear tests which France had
made at the Pacific, Rome's relations with Paris were worsened so
that J. Chirac avoided to meet with Italian authorities. Italy
last presided at EU ten years ago, prior to firmer integration of
EU in Maastricht (the Netherlands was presiding). Gianni de
Michelis (Venetian socialist living in the family castle was
accused of intriguing with Serbia against Croatia and Slovenia,
what has never been proved. /end/ A.S.

     RECONSTRUCTION OF THE OLYMPIC OBJECTS IN SARAJEVO - SOON

Sarajevo, March 12, 1996 (Press TWRA) - President and the  secr.
general of the B-H Olympic Board Stjepan Kljujic and Izudin
Filipovic, respectively and Bosnian prime minister H. Muratovic
received the technical director of the International Olympic
Committee who last week visited Sarajevo due to the IOC decision 
on allocating USD 1O mill. for reconstruction of the Olympic
objects to Sarajevo, which was the host of the 15th, 1984 Winter
Olympics. Miro visited the gymnasium Zetra and the Olympic
stadium of Kosevo. Reconstruction of the stadium will be co
-financed by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF)
planning to organize "Athletic meeting for peace". IOC and the
Sarajevo authorities work out a study on the range of the damage,
the aims of reconstruction, cost estimates and order of
rebuilding. Early during the war, Bosnian authorities authorized
Branko Mikulic (Bosnian Croat, ex-communist top official who
organized the 1984 Olympics) to take charge of rebuilding the
Olympic objects but Mikulic died during the siege of Sarajevo.
/end/ A.S.     
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          R. COHEN CRITICIZES OWEN'S BOOK 

Washington, March 12, 1996 (Press TWRA) -Correspondent of "The
New York Times" Roger Cohen wrote in the weekly "The New
Republic" a review of lord Owen's book "The Balkans Odyssey".
     "Can Owen propose for Karadzic nothing more than to be
banned his medical practice? (...) Owen was not able to realise
the events in the Balkans. State of his mind is grey, pathetic
and sick. He rejects the terms "victim" and "aggressor" losing
the threads of the war essence. Terror, systematically conducted
in achieving the project, had started at Kosovo and then
destroyed Yugoslavia, is hidden behind his account of Serbs as
the allies of the West in the past two woled wars. (...) The fact
that Owen does not find Milosevic guilty is not accidental.
Milosevic, who Owen can always find the common language with and
whose views of the war Owen shares, is to blame for Vukovar,
Dubrovnik, Zvornik, Sarajevo. Owen does not regard him a
nationalist and Milosevic is a nationalist and above all, a
coward. He enraged people, made them slaughter and then abandoned
them in the middle of the slaughter... In his rotten heart, he is
a communist apparatchik who wants to stay in the shadow, scared
that might end as Ceausescu's did.(...) Vision of Owen's book is
the vision of Milosevic apologists of the horror having been
committed by Serbs. Spokesman of the Serb military in B-H, col.
lieut. Milovan Milutinovic praised Owen's book to me.(...) The
longer I reported on the war, the more I was convinced of Serb
guilt and savagery and destructive plan behind all that. Attempt
of Milosevic to impose hegemony on the most of south-Slav states
has destroyed a fragile mosaic called Yugoslavia. Greater Serbia,
which he tried to create, was not imagined as a safe port for the
poor and scattered Serbs stuck somewhere among secessionist
Bosniaks and Croats."
     Cohen's article was reported in Croatian daily "Vecernji
list" whose correspondent Vladimir Goss quotes a Croat-American
scientist Stanimir Vuk Pavlovic saying: "Cohen's article shows a
gap between the USA's and EU's view of ex-Yugoslavia. The USA 
made many mistakes during Bush's administration, Clinton was
reluctant for long but the moral factor prevailed. Americans are
protected from immorality of West Europe by the lack of centuries
old diplomacy, tradition and culture, what Europe is proud of.
Owen's book is a picture of West Europe's dirty business which
continues being in conflict with the views of the USA./end/A.S.
     
     PARDEW ON THE US ASSISTANCE TO THE B-H FEDERATION ARMY 

Brussels, March 12, 1996 (Press TWRA) - After NATO's meeting at
which 16 ambassadors informed on the "Train and equip" project,
the US envoy for military stabilization of the Balkans, James
Pardew said the USA would allocate USD 1OO mill. of help to the
B-H army. "We want to decrease the amount of arms to B-H, said
Pardew rejecting the criticism of EU - "Our aid to the B-H army
will not jeopardize the process of the arms supervision but is
useful. /end/ A.S.        




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