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- U.S. initiative: meetings, maps, statements

- Russian proposal Yeltzin: U.S. and German reaction

- Bosnian and Croatian Army in offensive

- Remaining Croats from Banja Luka expelled to Croatia

- U.N. troops to leave Croatia

- U.S. lost two $2 million Predator spy drones over Bosnia

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President Clinton telephoned British Prime Minister John Major

Sunday to discuss new U.S. proposals to end the Balkan war.

An unnamed official said:

"They discussed the new initiative, the ongoing effort to

re-engergize the peace process, and the next step, including the

U.S. team going to the region to have discussions with the parties.

Prime Minister Major was generally supportive of the efforts."

U.S. national security adviser, Anthony Lake, toured

London, Paris and Bonn last week and met Russian Foreign

Minister Andrei Kozyrev Sunday in Sochi trying to revive the

peace process in the wake of a successful Croatian drive last

week into the rebel Serb enclave of Krajina.

Clinton's envoy discussed the conflict in former Yugoslavia with

Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and Foreign Minister Erdal Inonu

hours after discussing peace moves with Russian Foreign Minister.

Lake met and briefed Assistant Secretary of State Richard

Holbrooke in London early Monday.

Mr. Holbrooke heads the U.S. diplomatic delegation that is

going to Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia for talks with leaders

of the three countries. There is no plan to meet with nationalist

Bosnian Serbs leaders, as well.

The Clinton administration offered nationalist Bosnian

Serbs a chance Monday to make changes in the map proposed by Contact Group.

Officials at the White House and State Department said the map to

divide Bosnia-Herzgegovina into two ethnic zones could be revised

once negotiations began.

Also subject to change is the way the territory is divided among

Serbs, Muslims and Croats. One idea being considered is giving the

Muslim enclave of Gorazde to the Serbs in exchange for undisputed

Muslim control of Sarajevo, the capital.

The U.S. proposal, according to news reports, may include the threat

of more NATO bombing of Bosnian Serb positions and of troops from

Muslim countries joining the Muslim-led Bosnian army, if the Bosnian

Serbs reject the plan.

David Johnson, a State Department spokesman said:

"It's fair to say that the map, as we have said over several

months, is the basis for the negotiations. It's not necessarily the

end point. And so I think that there has always been the possibility

of some changes to the map."

"We believe that the change in circumstances on the ground has

provided us with an opportunity that we should seek to take

advantage of, and that is exactly what we're trying to do."

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The White House Monday called a Russian proposal for an

international summit on the former Yugoslavia a "constructive idea"

and pledged to study it as Washington launched its own shuttle diplomacy

in the Balkans.

The White House spokesman Mike McCurry said:

"We believe that that is a constructive idea, and of course we welcome

constructive efforts to bring about a peace settlement in the Balkans."

"We'll study the Russian proposal."

Germany on Monday backed the idea of a summit of world leaders to

unify diplomatic efforts and push through a political solution for the

war in former Yugoslavia.

It also insisted Bosnia's Moslem-Croat federation get 51

percent of the country's land should the republic be split with

rebel Serbs, but did not rule out potential land swaps.

Government spokesman Herbert Schmuelling told reporters:

"We are for the conference and would also take part in it as

members of the Contact Group. We support the five-plus-three or

three-plus-five initiative."

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Croatian troops, meanwhile, pursued their offensive to knock out

Serb guns that can reach Dubrovnik from the Serb-held Bosnian town of

Trebinje, 15 miles to the northeast.

In central Bosnia, the Bosnian government troops have been slowing

advancing around the Serb-held town of Donji Vakuf since Saturday. Its

capture would put the government closer to the bigger town of Jajce and

in better position against the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka.

Bosnian forces still had not taken Donji Vakuf as of late Sunday,

according to sources. And there was no sign that Croat forces nearby in

Glamoc or Bosansko Grahovo were helping them.

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Nationalist Bosnian Serbs began expelling remaining Croats from

Banja Luka on Monday and hundreds of people were due to be ferried out

to Croatia over a remote river crossing.

A U.N. refugee agency spokesman Kris Janowski said:

"This is the final touch to a three-year-old barbarity that

will make the name of Banja Luka go down in history as the heart of

darkness. It's the crowning of three years of murder, intimidation and

expulsions carried out, sadly, by the Serbs who themselves have

suffered this way in their past."

He said that U.N. expected Banja Luka's remaining Muslims would

be next for expulsion as separatist Bosnian Serbs complete their

drive to ethnically "purify" the northern Bosnian town.

In Sarajevo, U.N. officials said the Croatian government stated

that it was willing in principle to receive all Croat families from

the Banja Luka region who wish to go to Croatia.

They said there could be as many as 60,000 Croats and Moslems

to be expelled compared with a pre-war non-Serb population of over

500,000, most of whom have already been driven out.

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The U.S. Defense Department said on Monday that it has lost

two $2 million U.S. Predator spy drones over Bosnia but could

not confirm reports that one of them was shot down.

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U.N. special envoy to former Yugoslavia Yasushi Akashi said

Monday in the Croatian capital Zagreb that the United Nations will begin

withdrawing its 14,000 personnel in Croatia later this week and will

keep only 1,000 military observers and civilian police in the country.

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