Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, November 20, 1994                   TAG: 9411220056
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: ZAGREB, CROATIA                                 LENGTH: Medium

SERBS CONTINUE BOMBING

The attack in Cazin, the second in two days by planes based in Serb-held territory in neighboring Croatia, will likely increase pressure for NATO air strikes.

It came as the U.N. Security Council in New York voted unanimously to authorize NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia. At NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, ambassadors from the 16 NATO nations decided early Sunday to extend possible use of NATO airpower into Croatia if cross-border Serb attacks from there continue.

U.N. officials said the intensity of the blaze at the apartment house forced firemen out of the building, and they feared there would be many more casualties than the nine wounded reported initially.

Bosnian U.N. Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey said in New York at least 15 people were severely wounded. He also said the plane was shot down, although U.N. officials said it was seen hitting a building before it crashed.

The bombs left four large craters, U.N. spokesman Paul Risley said.

U.N. reports said one of the single-seat Orao, or Eagle, aircraft hit a chimney and crashed. Risley said the pilot was killed.

He termed the attack a ``gross violation'' of a ban on military flights over Bosnia. Serbs have been repeatedly warned about the ban.

In Sarajevo, U.N. spokesman Maj. Koos Sol said an angry crowd had gathered in Cazin, accusing the United Nations of inaction. ``The tension is very high,'' he said.

U.N. sources said Czech peacekeepers stationed at Udbina in Serb-held Croatia reported two Orao jets, aircraft produced jointly by the old Yugoslav federation and Romania, took off and only one landed.

The target of the attack may have been a Bosnian army ammunition factory in Cazin, U.N. sources said.

Muslim-led Bosnian government forces in northwest Bosnia, an area known as the Bihac pocket, are facing attacks from the east and south by Bosnian Serbs and from the north and west by Croatian Serbs and renegade Muslims.

The air attack came a day after two planes, apparently also taking off from the Udbina military airfield, bombed Bihac, a U.N.-designated safe area some 15 miles south of Cazin. U.N. military observers said there were no casualties.

The United Nations said there was evidence those planes had dropped napalm and cluster bombs - the first confirmed use of napalm in the 2 1/2-year war.

Serb defiance of the United Nations also continued on the ground.

U.N. spokesman Thant Myint-U said Bosnian Serbs on Saturday denied passage of 21 U.N. convoys, allowing only one to pass, and U.N. officials in Sarajevo were trying to negotiate the release of two U.N. fuel trucks, which the Serbs hijacked in the Serb-held southern Ilidza suburb.