BOSNIANS MAY TAKE U.N. HOSTAGES
Desperate Bosnian government soldiers in Zepa, the second Muslim "safe area" to come under Serb attack, commandeered 370 U.N. peacekeepers' weapons and threatened to take them hostage unless NATO staged airstrikes to protect the town.Rebel Serbs, who perfected the "human shield" tactic in previous standoffs with international troops, said they would respond to any NATO airstrikes by shooting at Ukrainian peacekeepers in a base they already control. (NATO planes made a show of flying over Zepa for several hours Sunday but the U.N. has not requested their presence since.) The Serbs, who pressed to within a mile of Zepa today,plan to overwhelm the mountain enclave and then march on Gorazde, the final "safe area" in eastern Bosnia.
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