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The Times , 1992, UK, English S7 . IS* S No 64,372 TUESDAY JUNE 30 1992 Major urges caution on Bush Valiant .. Bates TODAY IN UN sends 1,000 runs out THE TIMES of luck WELCOME AT THE CHATEAU trobps By John Goodbody to open and Adam Fresco THE urtseeded Jeremy Bates, who had become the first Briton to reach the last 16 of the mens’ singles at Wimble- Sarajevo airport don since 1982, yesterday lost to Guy Forger the No 9 seed from France, in a rense five- By James Bone in new york and Philip Webster in London set match on the Centre Court, which lasted 3 hours AS THE United Nations passed into its hands. The' lute ceasefire has not yet been 48 minutes in a temperature Security Council yesterday security council agreed that achieved". The new resolu- of 90 degrees. ordered more than 1,000 an 850-man battalion of Ca- tion calls on all sides to co- Baxes, who left his “lucky nadian UN peacekeepers operate with the in its pullover” in the dressing UN troops to secure Sara- UN Stay at a French would travel overland from jevo airport for humani- effort to deliver relief supplies room, had match points on western Slavonia, about 200 to the population of the be- his own serve in the fourth set chateau and get a tarian flights, John Major miles away, where they form sieged Bosnian capitaL but eventually lost the fourth- big discount with urged President Bush to ft part of the UN protection In a dear indication that round contest by 7-6, 4-6, 6-3, Passport to France be cautious in the use of force stationed in Croatia. council members are ready to 6-7, 3-6. Life & Times military force. The Canadian battalion order the use of force if neces- The Frenchman had a run Page 4 In a telephone discussion will be reinforced by 200 sary. it said that "in the ab- of fortunaxe net-cords at the with the president, the prime troops from a light aviation sence of such co-operation, end of the fourth and begin- .minuter outlined his fears unit of the French army who the security council does not ning of the fifth set ; :fhal such action risked Brit- will manage the humanitar- exdude other measures to de- The Briton, 30. said after- CLEAR OUT AT forces' involvement . ish in the ian airlift, and 70 more liver humanitarian assistance 'Conflict and likely casualties.. French specialists who will to Sarajevo and its environs". THE STUDIO . r He told the Commons that operate the airport The prime ministerpraised r • the prospects for a ceasefire The Serb paramilitary the decision by President i Ifci'ok ’to and for a humanitarian mis- forces completed their with- Mitterrand of France to visit sion looked slightly better drawal under a UN agree- Sarajevo on Sunday, saying it than they did 48 hours ago. ment yesterday. Tanks and was an “excellent initiative". biit added: “The Serbian mi- other vehicles pulled onto the Nefl Kinnock also commend- to W'*'- litia and others are numerous runway and headed out of the ed the visit and well armed. 1 1 would take battered Bosnian capital es- Ministers, however, are dy- only one ground-launched corted by two white UN ing to avoid Britain being missile to cause serious loss of armoured cars, reporters on drawn into a conflict Mal- life." the scene said. colm Rifldnd, defence secre- The new UN force is ex- General Lewis MacKerme, tary. said the governmentwas pected to arrive at the airport UN negotiator in Sarajevo, prepared to commit Hercules in the next 24 hours and have said that UN vehicles had transport aircraft to take - it ready for relief flights 24 escorted Serb armour back to large amounts of food and Authors, including hours later. The UN flag was its base at nearby Lukavica medical supplies to the Alan Bennett, protest raised at the airport yesterday and his units were already airport to signify that control had monitoring Serb heavy weap- The government had no at Radio 3 cuts • ' • ' on emplacements to ensure plans to send in troops, and . H _ -I Letters, Page 15 were they not used against the there was no suggestion of wards: “I did not chicken out Life & Times airport in contravention of involving the marines. "The ofthe match. He came up with Pagel the agreement is proper response a humani- the shots to win it." He added Mr Major said yesterday tarian one of an airlift of food Wilting in the heat Britain's Jeremy Bates sits alone with his thoughts after losing that the championships this that Britain was prepared to and medical supplies if condi- Major turns to the Frenchman Guy Forget in the fourth round at Wimbledon yesterday year had been “the best eight take part in an airlift tions at the airport that CLOSED DOOR but only make days of my life”. Bates had Thatcher "with the minimum risk to possible.” he said. previously beaten Michael AT THE CLUB on British and other lives”. Once The security council also Chang, die No 7 seed, Javier John Major provided his at the airport the aid would discussed a report by Boutros Pensions Sanchez, of Spain, and Thier- sharpest response yet to then have to be taken, pre- Boutros Ghalt, the UN secre- Algerian leader ry Champion, of France. LAtHfeS interventions on Europe by sumably by the Red Cross, to tary-general, on the Croatian Forget will now meet John Lady Thatcher, when he areas where it was needed, government’s attempt to re- watchdog McEnroe, of the United and militaiy escorts might be _take Serb-held areas on its attacked the former prime is assassinated States, in the quarter-finals. minister for her support for needed to safeguard the Red territory outside the present The former champion, who is Cross, he said. UN-protected zones. The quits over fH. a British referendum .on From Alfred Hermida in Algiers urtseeded this year, yesterday Maastricht Marra'ck Goulding, the council seemed Hkeiy to warn defeated Andrei Olhovskfy, of Briton who heads Croatia to halt its offensive in In the Commons ex- UN peace- Maxwell MUHAMMAD Boudiaf, Al- the streets carrying the in- the CIS. 7-5. 6-3, 7-6. The changes after his report on keeping. said that countries these “pink zones" and to geria's head of state, was jured to hospitals. Among the Russian, who is also unseeded, planning to send relief flights extend the mandate of the < EC summit in Lisbon, By Lindsay Cook gunned down yesterday in a casualties were a government had caused the biggest sur- ; Mr Major repeated Lady should wait until the airport UN force in Croatia to cover MONEY EDITOR hail of bullets while on a visit minister, a local government prise of the championships Thatcher's own past refer- was fully secured by the UN them. to Annaba in the east of the official and several Algerian this year by upsetting Jim Cou- THE chairman of the Invest- ence to referendum; as a force. He would make a The Canadian battalion country. Mr Boudiaf, 73, was journalists. rier. the No I seed, on ment Management Regula- "device of demagogues and progress report tomorrow. win eventually be replaced at delivering a speech at the The country's military- Saturday. The security council voted Sarajevo airport by three tory Organisation (Imro), 3b dictators" — Page 18 city's cultural centre when he backed Council of State met It was so hot at Wimbledon which was responsible for unanimously to send the force smaller battalions so that it was hit in the back and the in emergency session immed- that one linesman fainted monnoring Maxwell pension Women want the after Mr Goulding informed can return to its duties in head by an outburst of gun- iately after the killing. The from the heal on an outside Man charged fund money, has resigned. it that Serb forces had been Croatia. Diplomats said that fire. Twenty-seven people ruling council declared seven court Elsewhere in the coun- Garrick to open up, Dorset police have charged George Nissen. who has withdrawing from the airport the three battalions would were reported injured, many days of mourning and can- try on the hottest day of the but will the men Michael John Fox, 48. a France. Egypt been chairman of Imro since and that both sides were plac- come from seriously. celled all festivities planned Continued on page 18, eol 3 inside hear them? retired psychiatric nursing 1989, said he had offered his ing their heavy weaponry and either Russia or Ukraine The arrack appeared to for the weekend to commem- assistant with the kidnap- resignation 10 days ago Page 14 under UN supervision as re- — so that there would be one be- have been planned. As Mr orate Algeria’s 30th artniver- the Weather forecast, page 18 ping of Jo Ramsden. their June agree- Catholic, one Muslim and cause: “We have freely ac- quired by 5 Boudiaf made his speech, a sary of independence from Tennis reports, pages 33-34 Down’s Syndrome sufferer knowledged that we are open ment on reopening the one Orthodox Christian bomb exploded close to the France. Radio and television whose body was found last to a share of reproach airport. contingent for podium. Then there was a interrupted their pro- March Page 2 what happened although Mr Goulding recommend- second explosion from a gre- grammes to broadcast sol- much of that criticism, to ed the deployment ofthe force Airport snipers, page 10 nade thrown under the presi- emn music and verses of the those who know the facts, is Rangers free despite the fact that “an abso- Conor Cruise O’Brien, page 16 dent's chair.
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