| Show - B4F - NATIONWORLD Saturday The Salt Lake Tribune t AV September 14 1991 ' i Serbs Wrest Strategic Town From Croatian Forces THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ) BELGRADE Yugoslavia — Croatia suffered some of its heaviest battlefront defeats Friday when Serbian guerrillas seized a strategic town and closed in on major Adriatic ports The military victories by the Serbian insurgents meant they had cut Croatia into three parts and occupied more than d of Croatian territory Nine people — including six women and a child— died during one attack Friday according to the Croatian Defense Ministry It said they were killed by shells fired from an army tank near Vukovar on the Danube River border with Serbia No reliable comprehensive casualty figure was available for the day's fighting In the face of the onslaught Stipe Mesic a Croat who heads Yugoslavia's collective presidency said he would ask the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to Croatia Croatian radio g THE ASSOCIATED PRESS one-thir- 0 y al h It SI it ! e p neighboring Serbia of instigating the fighting to seize Croatian territory Although badly outnumbered the Serbian rebels have achieved a string of victories against demoralized Croatian units during the 2 months of fighting that has followed Croatia's declaration of independence on June 25 At least 400 people have died A large part of the conflict involves the insistence by Croatia's ethnic Serbian minority who make up about 12 percent of the republic's 475 million people that the mostly rural areas they inhabit will never be part of an independent Croatia Tensions have also been fanned by memories of the World War 11 slaughter of thousands of Serbs by a Nazi puppet regime in Croatia Serbs also killed many Croats at the end of the war On Friday Croatian forces lost Kostajnica a heavily fortified town of 8000 people 60 miles south of Zagreb Croatia's capital Ethnic Conflict Spreads to Economic Arena BELGRADE Yugoslavia — Ethnic bloodshed in Yugoslavia has been accompanied by a grow ing economic war between Serbia and Croatia with Croatia cutting oil supplies and its rival threatening to switch off the lights The two largest Yugoslav republics save virtually stopped all trade and have impounded each others' businesses office buildings and other assets They also slapped huge taxes on the few goods they still exchange As the result inflation in Yugo slavia is beginning to soar and federal officials warn they may halt foreign debt payments There has been a 25 percent drop in industrial production since the beginning of the year The clash over oil supplies could further deepen tensions between the two republics already fighting an undeclared war Sources close to the Serbian government told The Associated Press that the republic is contemplating cutting off electricity to Croatia Serbia provides half of Croatia's electricity OM reported "In my last effort I will ask the United Nations today to stop this aggressive war by Serbia and the Serbian army" Mesic said He also accused the federal army of "in fact carrying out a military Exam Shows Bush in Fine Form coup" Croatia and some Western governments have accused the Yugoslav army of helping the Serbian insurgents a charge the army denies The Croatian government has also accused Serb-dominat- REUTER NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — President Bush boasted of getting a perfect bill of health Friday after undergoing a checkup for an erratic heartbeat that hospitalized him earlier in the year 100 percent "Feel good perfect bill of health" Bush post-treatme- nt told reporters after the examination at Bethesda Naval Medical Center the hospital he was rushed to after experiencing shortness of breath and fatigue while jogging at Camp David May 4 Before the checkup White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater described it as "the final to ascertain his stacheckup tus and make sure everything is OK" "The doctors clearly at this point believe that his progress has been excellent that he's in great physical health and 67 1 ' there's no problem" Fitzwater said It was disclosed last week that Bush was no longer taking special medication to regulate his heartbeat Bush spent two nights in the hospital in May for treatment of atrial fibrillation an irregular rhythm of the upper chambers of the heart Blood tests determined that Bush's medical problem was caused by Graves' disease which causes overactive thyroid glands He was treated with radioactive iodine to reduce the thyroid gland's excessive production of ‘ I I I i q I which doctors hormones blamed for triggering the irregular rhythm in his heartbeat The cause of Graves' disease is unknown but it occurs when imthe body's disease-fightin- g mune system turns against itself attacking the thyroid and the eye muscles 1 I I' : - 4 : ii t 0 4' a of - V V 1 :: II l I : i 4 t I t 4 7-- - I V 4 -- g NO ll ii itteti I --- - - ti: I: t e' I ' oi i f 1 t ri :: aaa (oliot-e- i 1$ 1: i - i: i ! 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