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Bosnia's Serbs pressed ahead toward a referendum that would almost certainly ratify their leaders' rejection of the Vance-Owen peace plan. Europeans continued to resist America's proposals for arming the beleaguered Bosnian Muslims and conducting air strikes against Serb military targets, arguing that sanctions are the best route to peace. The no-longer-emboldened President Clinton backed off, agreeing not to act unilaterally...
HEADS WILL ROLL! SO PROMISES BORIS YELTSIN IF officials in his government continue to oppose his reforms. In a nationally televised address 11 days after his strong showing in a national referendum, Yeltsin declared that those who do not share his aims "should simply leave," and called for new parliamentary elections by the fall. The President's prediction of a battle with the parliament over his new draft constitution, which would scrap the conservative Congress of People's Deputies, was immediately fulfilled: parliamentary leaders presented their own rival draft, specifically designed to limit the President's powers...
...Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen had technically not been rejected...
...council could present an obstacle because the Russians, who hold veto power, insist on taking the Bosnian Serbs' May 15 referendum seriously. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said he hoped "the population will be wiser than its legislative branch." Moscow he said, was not excluding "any option, including tough measures" if the Serbs remain defiant, but Washington wonders if Russia would approve air strikes against fellow Slavs...
...administration said this week that any decision on military action in Bosnia would come after the results of the Bosnian Serb referendum and that the U.S. delay was largely due to hesitation on the part of European governments...