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Article: U.S. TO SEND HEAVY ARTILLERY PIECES TO BOSNIAN ARMY.(FRONT)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 10, 1997
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Byline: THE NEW YORK TIMES
The United States said Friday that it was sending Bosnia's Muslim-Croat Federation 116 large artillery pieces in an effort to bolster one of the federation's main weaknesses and set the stage for the withdrawal of U.S. peacekeeping forces by July 1998.
The federation's military now has only six of the weapons, 155-millimeter howitzers with a range of about nine miles and tremendous destructive power.
The federation army, made up of Muslim and Croatian elements that quarrel more than they cooperate, is the force in the half of the country not controlled by the Bosnian Serb army. Forging a unified Muslim-Croatian force ...