Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, July 31, 1994                   TAG: 9408020039
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE WORLD

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - U.N. aid workers pulled out of some Bosnian Serb areas Saturday as a precaution in case of reprisals for toughened international sanctions.

The foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Germany agreed Saturday to intensify sanctions against the Serbs for balking at an international peace plan.

But U.N. peacekeepers reported that battlefronts across Bosnia were quieter than usual during the day, with reports of only sporadic shelling and small-arms exchanges.

|- Associated Press

France OKs limited use of English words

PARIS - Go ahead, have a cheeseburger, France's Constitutional Council said Saturday.

The agency that monitors the constitutionality of laws wasn't ruling on nutrition, but on linguistics. Its decision substantially weakens a new law meant to stop the invasion of foreign words into the French language.

The law barred the use of English words in broadcasting, advertising and science. But the council ruled that encroaches on ``the fundamental liberty of thought and expression'' guaranteed by the constitution.

The law would, for instance, have forced advertisers to offer a ``hamburger au fromage'' instead of a cheeseburger.

- Associated Press