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...control of the city under the Dayton accord. There, about 3,000 Serbs and other residents staged counterprotests Monday against Serb objections to the peace plan, which returns control of the city to Muslims and Croats. Alexandra Stiglmayer reports that Sarajevo's Bosnian Serbs will vote Tuesday in a referendum on the peace accord. "There's no doubt about the outcome," says Stiglmayer. "It will be No." For details, visit TIME World Wide's special page devoted to the U.S. mission in Bosnia with extended daily news, special audio reports from TIME correspondents abroad and other materials...
Other council members are calling for another referendum to increase the council's term bill fee from $20 to $30 or $40 per year...
...huge voter turnout was expected in Ireland on a referendum to make divorce legal. TIME's Tony Connelly reports from Dublin: "This has been a passionate and bitter campaign, and the vote should be very, very close. The "No" campaign opposing the legalization of divorce has been gaining momentum in recent months. In May of this year, 72 percent polled were in favor of the referendum; but by last week, that number had been reduced to about 45 percent. The opposition has been based in part on the notion that people could be divorced against their will. In the cities...
Lucien Bouchard, the charismatic leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, has changed his mind about quitting the fray. Bouchard, who announced he was considering leaving politics after Quebec's referendum to secede from Canada was narrowly defeated last month, says he will seek to replace outgoing Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau. "Bouchard has put regionalism ahead of a national role in government," says TIME's William McWhirter. "What he's done is say Quebec is more important than the country. And given his success in galvanizing Quebeckers during the referendum, he is the province's best chance at gaining independence. Bouchard...
...results may not be proof of a Democratic revival, but at the very least the party held its ground in last Tuesday's off-year elections, which many candidates had framed as an early referendum on the so-called Republican Revolution. The results...