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Croatia calls for foreign buffer force against federal army
BONN. July 19: Franjo Tudjman. President of the breakaway Yugoslav Republic of Croatia, called Thursday for a foreign buffer force to be sent to Yugoslavia if the federal army attacked Croatia or Slovienia reports AFP.
Bloody fighting has rocked both republics since they declared independence of June 25.
Tudjman, speaking after talks with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, also said he believed the chances of Croatia remaining part of Yugoslavia were dwindling day by day.
Although he did not think the army was likely to attack in the next 48 hours it is very possible in the next 48 days, he said.
During their meeting. Kohl made fresh appeals from dialogue tn Yugoslavia saying the aim at this critical moment must be to avoid any threat or use. of force, according to his spokesman Dieter Vogel.
In Zagreb. European Community ceasefire observers began setting up their head quarters In a hotel after vio-
lence in Croatia overnight left at least one person dead
They later toured the east of the republic, but stressed that their mission was not to intervene in bloody clashes that have shaken the region.
AP from Knin (Yugoslavia) adds: Both commanders wear the same camouflage, but one ts a Serb and the other Croat. Seventy miles (110 kilometers) apart in the most other bitterly divided part of a country at war with Itself, they are training for a showdown.
A wiry man with graying hair and a mysterious past commands 12.000 heavily armed Serbs in Knin. the heart of the ethnic Serb rebellion agairtet Croatian authorities.
He calls himself Captain Dragan
His headquarters is in a bunker in the medieval fortress, perched atop a hill overlooking Knin. A Serbian flag flies defiantly from the stone structure.
Ivo Jelic. commander of a brigade of the Croatian national guard, promised the flag won't be there for long.
The Croatian flag will flutter from the fortress of Knin."
said Jelic. a burly former lieutenant colonel of the Yugoslav federal army.
"It will cost many, many lives." he said. "But we arc prepared, and they are prepared for that."
Knin is the center of the Serb-populated region of Krajina. The region says it will split from Croatia if the republic insists of seceding from Yugoslavia
The Croatian government Is under pressure from hard-line nationalists to crack down on Krajina. A military move against Krajina would almost certainly draw a Serbian response. plunging the two largest Yugoslav republics into war.
The two men who would be front-line commanders in such a fight talked to The Associated Press tn separate interviews this week.
There was no sign that either side was prepared to obey a federal presidency directive to lay down their arms by midnight Thursday.
Captain Dragan, who declines to disclose his last name, said hts troops are