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UN BOSNIA FORCE MAY GROW: The United Nations announced plans today tosend more troops to guard aid convoys in war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina,while diplomats at international peace talks again rejected usingforce to stop the ethnic warfare. "This is not a militaryintervention, but a more robust way of protecting humanitarian aid,"Marrack Goulding, a UN undersecretary, said on the second day of thetalks in London. Goulding did not say how many more soldiers mightbe deployed, but he had indicated recently that he wanted to increasethe force from 1,600 to 8,000. The Security Council would have toapprove the plan. Intense fighting has raged in the former Yugoslavrepublic, especially in its capital, Sarajevo. Mortar shells killedthree people and wounded 20 in a breadline there today. CORDIAL DISAGREEMENT: Israelis and Arabs took sharply opposingstands on land, elections and settlements as they neared the end of aweek of talks in Washington characterized by unusual cordiality.Assistant Secretary of State Edward P. Djerejian, who is overseeingthe negotiations for the United States, called in Haidar Abdul Shafi,head of the Palestinian team, for a meeting this morning.Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi said her delegation wantedclarification of Israel's policy on Jewish settlements in theoccupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. New Israeli Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin canceled some 6,000 planned housing units, but thePalestinians object to his decision to allow another 10,000 underconstruction to be completed. S. AFRICA POLICE SHAKEUP: SouthAfrica today announced a major reorganization of the police force inan effort to restore confidence amid allegations of racism andinciting political violence. The forced retirement of 13 generalsand new promotion opportunities for blacks are likely to have a majorpsychological impact on the department and pressure officers of allranks to fall in with reforms. The nation's law and order minister,Hernus Kriel, told a news conference in Pretoria that several seniorblack officers will start a special course in September and beadvanced to major general if they pass. Blacks have been barred fromsenior posts under apartheid. SOMALIA AIRLIFT SET: The United States will begin flying fooddirectly to Somalia tomorrow to feed hundreds of thousands ofstarving people, the Marine Corps officer in charge of theoperation's military phase announced today. Brig. Gen. FrankLibutti said the first of six C-130s will take off before dawn forBelet Huen, 670 miles northeast of Mombasa, the city where a34-member advance team arrived Aug. 17. Since flights began lastFriday, eight C-130 Hercules and four C-141 Starlifters havedelivered 925 tons to Somali refugees and drought-stricken Kenyans innorthern Kenya. But the operation in Somalia proper has become thefocus of the airlift, ordered by President Bush. RUSSIAN EMBASSY BOMBED: Russia today prepared to close its embassyin Kabul, Afghanistan, after it was hit by at least 14 rockets. Thebarrage, which wounded two people, was part of fierce fighting thatfollowed two days of relative calm between forces supporting theinterim Islamic government and a renegade fundamentalist guerrillafaction led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which is entrenched outside thecapital. Shortly afterward, the government announced a temporarycease-fire to allow Afghans to worship on the Muslim sabbath and givediplomats time to get out of Kabul. 1993 TRIAL FOR L.A. COPS: U.S. District Judge John G. Davies agreedtoday to preside over the civil rights trial of four white LosAngeles police officers accused in the videotaped beating of blackmotorist Rodney G. King. Davis said the trial will not open untilFeb. 2 because lawyers plan to file many pretrial motions. Amongthem, defense attorney Harland Braun said, will be an effort to havethe case dismissed on grounds that the officers cannot get a fairtrial anywhere in the United States. The four are accused ofviolating the civil rights of King, who was clubbed and kicked afterhe was stopped for speeding on March 3, 1991.