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Bosnians, UN Delay Signing

PALE, Bosnia -- Bosnian Serb and United Nations military commanders wound up talks Thursday on a proposed four-month cease-fire without signing a truce document but indicated they still hoped to do so by the weekend.


The UN commander in Bosnia, Lieutenant General Sir Michael Rose, won verbal agreement to a cease-fire from Fikret Abdic, a renegade Moslem warlord controlling 6,000 rebel Moslem soldiers in the Bihac region.


Later, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said agreement was close and the Serbs might sign the cease-fire with the Moslem-led Bosnian government during the course of the day.


Rose told reporters before he left Pale, the Bosnian Serb political headquarters : "I hope we are going to get some conclusion by the weekend."


Rose traveled Wednesday to the Bihac enclave in northwestern Bosnia, where fighting has threatened an initial one-week cease fire that took hold last Saturday. (Reuters, AP)




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