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Show __ TheSalt LakeTribuneWORLD Frid a US. Officials Visit Serb Leader for ‘Useful’ Talks ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELGRADE, Yugosiavia — U.S. diplomats Thursday broughttheir campaign to end the war in former Yugoslavia to the man widely accused of instigating it all, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic, who responded positiveyy. But ongoing fighting, expulsions aimed at eveating ethnically pure areas, looting and ‘burning cf homesillustrated the hatred and desire for vengeance to be overeome. “Today's talks were extremely useful, they werevery frank and they clarified some issues,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke told reporters after meeting with Milosevic for five hours. An upbdeat-sounding Milosevic added, “We share views on the need for urgency, a greater utgeney: for finding a solution to the everali crisis in the former Yugoslavia, a solution that would bring about a permanent and just Lower-level delegations were to mest later in the evening, and Holbrooke and Milosevic were to continue their talks today. The Serbian president also met Thursday with the Eur pean Union's mediator, Carl Bildt. Milosevic's nationalist rhetoric is widely blamed for instigating the Serb rebellions in Creatia in 1991 and Bosnia in 1992, as former Yugosiav federation collapsed. H spired.the rebels with hopes of uniting Serbs in ene ‘Greater Serbia.” With ‘support from the Yugoslav army, Serbs captured -& third cf Croatia and 70 percent of Bosnia, but they aoware on the rai. Milosevic, seeking an end to U.N. economic sanctions against his country, withdrew his pefor the Serb rebels, and early this month, Croat forces crushed Serbs in southern Croatia, leaving only a strip of iand in Serb hands. Serbs also have been losing ground to Croats and the Bosnian army in Bosnia. Milosevic was reported to generally favor the new U.S. plan. Bosnian Serbs, Croatia, and the Bosnian foreign minister all spoke positively of it Wednesday. Full details hav: been released, but media xéports have indicated it includes thefollowing ideas: lifting economic i against Serb-led Yugoslavia; swapping the Bosnian government-held Gorazde enclave in eastern Bosnia and land adjoining a Serbheld corridor in northern Bosnia for i around Sarajevo; providing internati to rebuild Bosnia; and threats of pu if either side refuses. if Bosnian Serbs refuse, U.N.soldiers could be withdrawn and replaced with NATO troops, the arms embargo against the Muslimled Bosnian government could belifted and NATOcould provide air support for the Bosnian army.If the Bosnian governmentrefuses, the U.N. peacekeeping force could be withdrawn and the arms embargo for ali sides could belifted. Momeilo Krajisnik, 2 senior Bosnian Serb leader, told the news agency SRNA that the initiative allows Serbs contiguous territory, a widerlink between Serb-heldterritoriesin the east and west, and sea access. Associated Meat A Krajina Serb refugee sleeps beside a refugees near the Yugoslavcapital of Be! holding more Gn Thursday. Gart Bros. and Gart Sports are NOW ONE great sporting goods company. T-SHIRTS, SWEATS& “AND; POLO SHIRTS Se titers f ea ones GART Sey Prev aT a GUARANT jf 33 5 id anny PRICES’ « WIDE SELECTION * QUALITY PRODUCTS AND SERVICE o SATISFACTION Houra: Mon-Fri 9:00-9:00, Saturday 9:00-7:00, Bunday 10: 48:00 Hours may very by mail and tucson. Maney <4 Laat 0460 Bout Teyhevie * MOE Borat Recmoos Rowe 01/9485 . We HOC foun + Pete + 730 Went rien Fiver Ortow + Vora «57D ent Hagen 90 Rach Begs 271 omar De = FUE Ba 28 seth |