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DATE: MONDAY, April 19, 1993                   TAG: 9304190091
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: TUZLA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA                                LENGTH: Medium

BOSNIAN TOWN GIVES IN, AGREES TO CEASE-FIRE

Many of Srebrenica's fighters resented the agreement, and it was unclear whether the cease-fire would last. Scores of truces in the Bosnian war have collapsed over the past year.

It would be the Bosnian government's biggest capitulation in the yearlong war and underlines the weak position of the outgunned government forces against the Serbs and Croats who have seized most of the state.

Just hours after Serbs and the Muslim-led Bosnian forces signed the truce, 130 Canadian U.N. peacekeeping troops entered Srebrenica to a hero's welcome, said ham radio operators. Crowds mobbed the peacekeepers' 22 armored personnel carriers and 19 trucks and hugged and kissed the soldiers.

In Washington, Pentagon war planners, responding to mounting frustration on the part of the Clinton administration, have briefed U.S. leaders on a broad range of military strike options designed to blunt the Serbian-backed advance on Bosnia and to loosen the Serbs' grip on besieged towns and cities like Sarajavo.

Clinton's key national security advisers focused on one of the narrowest of the military options - use of U.S. and possibly allied aircraft to strike Serb artillery positions. And by doing so, officials said they have confronted both well-worn fears and new challenges, including the possibility that even the most limited air strike could require introduction of some U.S. ground forces into Bosnia.

For Clinton, who as recently as Friday said that he has "never ruled in" the use of U.S. ground troops in the conflict, that fact could pose political difficulties. But so do the alternative plans drafted by Pentagon planners, officials said. Those plans include sweeping strikes on Serbian supply routes into Bosnia and on major structures inside Serbia whose destruction could force recalcitrant Serbian leaders to the peace table.

On Sunday, Clinton and British Prime Minister John Major welcomed the U.N. Security Council's late Saturday vote to tighten existing sanctions against the Yugoslav federation, now consisting only of Serbia and Montengro. Among other things, the new measures, effective April 26, will freeze all of Serbia's overseas assets.