1. Perry also said NATO would comply with a U.N. request for further airstrikes against Serb positions around Bihac. 2. Others charged the move was designed to head off further airstrikes. 3. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday suggested his side might be ready for dialogue in return for promises of no further airstrikes. 4. Further airstrikes targeted a TV tower and the city district where Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov lives, the agency reported. 5. He did not rule out further airstrikes against Bosnian Serb munition bases. 6. He said that on Friday NATO had not received any request to launch further airstrikes despite the continuation of heavy machine-gun fire in and around Bihac. 7. He demanded assurances against further NATO airstrikes, U.N. spokeswoman Maj. Myriam Sochacki said. 8. In an effort to placate the Serbs, U.N. commanders have refused to authorize further airstrikes. 9. Instead, the Serbs have held hundreds of peacekeepers hostage as insurance against further airstrikes and severely restricted U.N. movements. 10. Iraqi newspapers reported Monday that Saddam, chairing his second Cabinet meeting this year, asked his ministers to outline measures they have taken in anticipation of further airstrikes. |
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