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Emphasizing the gravity of the Bosnian crisis, professors in the Faculty and at the Kennedy School of Government say the U.S. faces a complicated situation, but will have to make a decision soon after this weekend's referendum, when Bosnian Serbs will choose whether to accept a peace settlement...
...hard-line Bosnian Serbs are the only hold-outs on the peace plan. The Serbs' recent demand for time to conduct a "referendum" on the plan represents a blatant delaying tactic to forestall Western action...
Action seemed imperative. The Bosnian Serbs had turned down the Vance-Owen peace plan and laid siege to a new brace of Muslim towns. Boris Yeltsin, his referendum victory safe, announced he would no longer shield the Serbs indiscriminately from "the will of the world." Former Secretary of State George Shultz, among others, counseled military force. People compared the Serbian aggression to the Holocaust, thus suggesting that intervention was a moral necessity. Meanwhile, Clinton consulted. Dozens of members of Congress, eyeing polls that said only 30% of the public supported air strikes, rejected the Holocaust comparison...
BORIS YELTSIN CALLED THE RESULTS A "SENSAtion," and he was right in more ways than one. As the embattled Russian President celebrated victory in a nationwide referendum, some 3,000 angry procommunists took to the streets of Moscow Saturday in an unusually violent protest. They clashed with riot police, leaving at least 150 demonstrators and police injured. And while preliminary results gave Yeltsin a 58% vote of confidence and a surprisingly high 53% approval for his economic reforms, political opponents denounced the vote as meaningless; he failed to get the absolute majority of all registered voters needed to force early...
Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, once Yeltsin's ally, dismissed the referendum as a "sociological poll," and parliament chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov said it had "brought no losers or winners" -- just a weakening of the state. Yeltsin, however, took his victory as a mandate to begin strengthening his political clout. He summoned regional leaders to Moscow to present a new draft constitution that would turn Russia into a presidential republic with a two-chamber parliament to replace the present Congress of People's Deputies...