2A -- The Michigan Daiy - y -- Thursda! LXTO ind TheWihington Post ;SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - NATO indefinitely suspended its threat* bomb Bosnian Serb military sitesy1sterday, saying the Serb forces have withdrawn banned heavy weap- ons :f oin around Sarajevo as de- manded. The decision to continue the bomb- ing halt left international attention fo- cusetihefforts to press Croatia and the Miislii-led Bosnian government to stop their xilitary offensives in western Bosnia before they upset plans for talks to ed4he 41-month-old Bosnian con- flict: A ThdBosniangovernmenthasresisted calls: by,:the U.S. mediator, Assistant Secieiry of State Richard C. Hobr epke, to discuss a nationwide cease-!Pre while the fortunes of war are chging. The Serb forces have fallen bac), and a wide corridor of western Bosnia; they held for more than three years bias been given up in a matter of weeks. Tens of thousands of Serbs have fled their homes, adding to the enormous dislocations of a country that is mostly made.up of displaced people. NATO's southern commander, U.S. Adm. Leighton Smith, and Lt. Gen. BernardJanvier, the French commander of U. peacekeepers in the Balkans, visited here yesterday and recom- mended against resuming NATO bomb- ing because, they said, the Serbs have ry, September 21, 1995 efinitely suspends bombing threat Bosnian Serb refugees reach for bread being handed off the back of a truck in Banja Luka,135 miles northwest of Sarajevo. cent months; U.N. relief convoys have won use of two paved roads into Sarajevo that skirt Igman. The city's airport has reopened for relief flights. Sarajevo has quickly become a sec- ondary issue in efforts to bring an end to the war. The focus has shifted to the west, where Bosnian Croats and Muslims, supported by Croatian artil- lery, have been gaining territory long held by the Serbs. Diplomats say that further gains might upset proposed talks on a U.S.-sponsored plan that foresees a roughly even split of Bosnia's territory between a Muslim- Croat federation and a separatist Serb republic. Two weeks of conquests by the Mus- lims and Croats have reduced Serb hold- ings in Bosnia from about 70 percent to about half the country, in line with the peace plan. The joint Smith-Janvier statement pointedly remarked that the Serbs "have expressed a willingness to discuss a cessation of hostilities." The Muslim- led government has refused to discuss a cease-fire, U.N. officials said. British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind warned that neighboring Serbia, which has sat largely on the sidelines during the offensive against its allies and ethnic kin, might intervene if it goes on much longer. The United Na- tions has called for an end to the fight- ing, but those calls have yet to freeze the action, U.N. military officials here said. Smith and Janvier were briefed on the offensives by U.N. military offic- ers. Fighting was concentrated in two areas, U.N. military officials said: west and southeast of Banja Luka, the largest Serb-held city, and near-Doboj, a town that commands several road junctions in north central Bosnia. Fighting continues, although the ad- vance of the Muslims is stalled, and the Croats appear to be taking a breather. If peace talks were held now, the lines now being formed militarily could serve as a convenient basis for negotiated frontiers, U.N. officials said. complied with a pledge to withdraw certain categories of heavy weapons beyond 12.5 miles from the center of the Bosnian capital. U.N. monitors said they have ob- served about 250 mortars, artillery pieces and tanks leave the siege lines in recent days. Their exit from the so- called exclusion zone was the prime condition set by NATO to stop a bomb- ing campaign that began Aug. 30 and was suspended six days ago to give the Serbs time to comply. The number of siege weapons cov- ered by the NATO demand was origi- nally estimated at 300, not including antiaircraft guns the Serbs said they needed to protect their civilians. U.N. spokesmen would not specify yester- day how many Serb heavy weapons remain within the 12.5-mile zone. U.N. officials said any subsequent firing by the Serbs into the city will be met by return artillery from the U.N. Rapid Reaction Force, and perhaps by a resumption of the 16-day NATO airstrike campaign. The joint statement from Smith and Janvier said the Serbs "have withdrawn defined heavy weapons from the Sarajevo exclusion zone" and"airstrikes should be suspended." The pullback sets back Serb hopes of driving both the Muslim military and the city's civilian population from Sarajevo through a prolonged artil- lery assault. Since April 6, 1992, ar- tillery fire from the Serb-held hills around the Bosnian capital has sowed terror in the city, causing an esti- mated 10,000 deaths and heavy dam- age to buildings. The siege remains partially effec- tive. Civilians cannot easily leave, and the limited commercial traffic must make an arduous journey over a slip- pery, unpaved road crossing Mount Igman southwest of the city. Nonetheless, reliefsupplies and food have arrived in large quantities in re- M NATIONAL REPORT Forbes to enter GOP presidential race WASHINGTON-Publishing magnate Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes Jr. said yesterday he will enter the Republican presi- dential race, using his personal fortune to campaign for higher economic growth and lower taxes. "I'm going to do it," he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his office in Bedminster, N.J. "The need is there." Forbes, a soft-spoken multimillionaire, enters a field al- ready crowded with nine politicians and better-known faces. He sees his lack of political experience as a plus in the current anti-Washington political climate. Forbes, 48, will make his official announcement tomorrow Forbes in a speech at the National Press Club and launch a national TV campaign the same day, aides said. He will travel next week to key primary and caucus states, including New Hampshire, Iowa, Arizona, Florida and New York. Forbes said he will espouse "pro-growth, pro-opportunity, get-America-mov- ing themes." He said he would try to provide a hopeful antidote to the "glum view of the rest of the crop" in the GOP race. Earthquake shakes Southern California RIDGECREST, Calif. - A moder- ate earthquake centered beneath this Southern California desert town yester- day rocked an area from the Pacific Ocean to Nevada. There were no imme- diate reports of injury or damage. "The earth bucked. That's what it felt like," said Scott Farwell, managing editor of the Ridgecrest Daily Indepen- dent, "It shook for a good long while, maybe as long as 30 to 40 seconds." He said he was at a bowling alley when the quake hit at 4:27p.m., "and all the pins fell down." The magnitude-5.5 quake was cen- tered 10 miles north of Ridgecrest, said Jay Aller, a spokesman for California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. A magnitude-5.4 earthquake centered in the same area hit on Aug. 17. Jim Mori, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist at the institute, said Wednesday's quake was probably not an aftershock to the earlier temblor. Wednesday's quake was felt in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties, and as far away as Las Vegas. Ridgecrest, population 28,000, is about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. Floyd Hickey, who lives in Tehachapi, about 65 miles southwest of Ridgecrest, said he was lying on the couch "and the couch just started mov- ing and I thought the house was being exorcised or something." FBI agent defends Ruby Ridge review WASHINGTON - The FBI agent who conducted a controversial review of the FBI's performance at Ruby Ridge said yesterday that he did not recom- mend any disciplinary action for two senior FBI officials who have since been suspended. Testifying before a skeptical Senate subcommittee, the agent, Charles Matthews III, defended his report as fair and said he saw no reason to inter- view the FBI field commander who received the stiffest punishment as a result of his report. The Ruby Ridge field commander, Eugene F. Glenn, was censured, sus- pended for 15 days and demoted last January. "... Controversy over the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commit- tee's Fishbowl sign continues, as Ajpha Phi Omega's charges against SNCC come up before the Joint Judiciary Committee tomorrow. APO charges the sign, which ac- cused American troops in Viet Nam of war crimes, was illegal because the space used had been granted for 4 dif Brent purpose..... Networks gearing up for Simpson trial cihmax The Washington Post WASHINGTON - The networks are gearing up to cover the denouement of the O.J. Simpson trial, certain to be one of the most-watched television events of all time. CBS plans to carry the closing argu- ments and the verdict, followed by prime-time specials. "There are more people watching our middle-of-the-night broadcast than watching CNN," says Lane Venardos, vice president for hard news. "Having followed this story at the beginning, we think we should be there at the end." ABC will carry the start of closing arguments "and make a decision whetherit warrants continuing live cov- erage," says Terry O'Neil, executive producer for special events. "It depends how compelling and sustaining the event is." NBC isn't sure about the final sum- mations. "One of the things we're try- ing to determine is how many days closing arguments are going to go," says Bill Wheatley, vice president for news. "I expect we'll be on for some period of time before and after the ver- dict." The problem facing all the networks is that no one knows how much notice there will be before the verdict, or whether jurors will be made available for courthouse interviews. All are sending reinforcements to Los Ange- les, but it could be a long wait. "A senior producer calls me every day and wants to slit her wrists because she's trapped in a hotel room," O'Neil says. lo AROUND TE WORLD Russian high oficial under a bridge in Grozny, the Chechen gt capital, after Lobov's car had crossed, surves assassinaion Russian news agencies reported. The car behind it was wrecked by the blast L&empt in Chet nya while starting onto the bridge but e Bstopped short of the part that collapsed MOSCOW - Presidenty Bersb into the Neftyanka River. Yeltsin's personal envoy to the rebel Russian republic of Chechnya escaped Huriane ctims an assassination attempt there yester--r day when a mine explosion destroyed a Wait Or upplies bridge on the path of his motorcade and wounded four subordinates in another CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St. Tho- car. mas - While thousands of people The attack was the first against ahigh waited, tons of supplies flown in by official on either side of the Chechen military cargo planes sat in warehouses war since a July 30 peace accord, and it because there weren't enough trucks to added tension to a deadlock that has move them to three distribution centers halted the disarming of separatist guer- on St. Thomas, an island of 51,000 rillas and the pullout of Russian troops. people. With Russia's parliamentary elec- Tempers frayed as islanders, endur- tions three months away, the continu- ing a fifth day without electricity, run- ing unrest and cease-fire violations in ning water and telephone service, re- Chechnya are of growing concern to called weeks of the same hardships Yeltsin, who lost much of his popular- after Hurricane Hugo devastated the ity by starting the war and wants no Caribbean in 1989. reminders that it is not really over. There was drinking water yesterday, Yeltsin's envoy, Oleg I. Lobov, was but people who didn't know they needed put in charge of the tiny southern repub- containers had to go home to get some- lic a month ago with a mission to com- thing to store it. plete the disarmament, forge apolitical But there was no ice, and people settlement and oversee local elections. complained they needed it to freeze A longtime Yeltsin loyalist, Lobov is a chicken and give something cool to deputy prime minister, secretary of the their children. 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