Fighting between Bosnia's Muslims and Croats subsided Monday before a meeting called to try to resolve the differences fracturing their anti-Serb front.
Meanwhile, sporadic small-arms fire crackled in Sarajevo, interspersed with the thud of occasional mortar rounds. But much of the city was again without electricity despite relatively light fighting between troops loyal to Bosnia's Muslim-led government and Serbs besieging the capital.Serb gunfire knocked out one of two recently restored main electrical lines Sunday. Bosnian radio said Monday that most districts remained blacked out while remaining power was fed to hospitals, bakeries and other priority users.
The scheduled talks Monday between Croats and Muslims in Prozor came after days of three-way fighting among Serbs, Croats and Muslims for pieces of Bosnia before peace efforts intensify this week.
On Sunday, the Bosnian government sent 700 more soldiers to help fight Croat units around Prozor, 30 miles west of the capital, radio reported.
Trying to resuscitate the alliance, Bosnian government units in Jajce appealed to regional Croat commanders to help them break a Serb siege of the town, about 60 miles southwest of Sarajevo.
Radio in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia and the republic of Serbia, claimed Sunday that Serb troops had fought their way into Jajce. But there was no independent confirmation.
Bosnia's war began when Serbs rebelled against the majority Muslims and Croats who voted for secession from Yugoslavia on Feb. 29. More than 14,000 people have died in the fighting.
Croats and Muslims were allied at the start, but the alliance collapsed as Croats increasingly aligned with the Serbs in pushing for the ethnic partitioning of the republic.