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Article: U.S. Stance Alarms Allies // Ships Won't Stop Arms To Bosnia
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 13, 1994
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The Muslim-led government in Sarajevo is hailing the U.S.
decision to stop blocking Bosnia-bound arms shipments in the Adriatic
Sea, but European allies are dismayed because they say the move could
escalate the Balkan war and scar U.S.-European relations.
Officials in Washington and Europe appeared to agree on one
thing at least: The U.S. policy change, effective at midnight
Saturday, is unlikely to provide any material boost to Bosnia's
under-gunned army, which has received most of its arms imports by
air.
Of 42,000 vessels challenged in the Adriatic by NATO ships
during the last two years, only three were found to be ferrying arms
to Bosnia, according to the Pentagon.
"We don't see ...