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I-WORLD WIRE Truce continues to hold in Bosnia SARAJEVO, Bosnia Herzegovina— Deep snow appar ently helped a cease-fire take hold Sunday as U.N. officials battled the elements in another attempt to get food and medicine to the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica. Alija Izetbegovic, president of Bosnia's Muslim-led government, said he would give Bosnian Serbs 10 to IS days to accept the U.N. sponsored peace plan he signed last week. The truce — the longest in the year-old civil war—followed two of the quietest days of the year-old war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, slightly raising hopes that this cease-fire might stick. Earlier ac cords collapsed quickly. “These have been the first six hours of peace in a year,” Manojlo Milovanovic, chief-of-staff of the Bosnian Serb forces, said. “I’m very satisfied.” More than 130,000people have been killed or are missing in the war over Bosnia's secession from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. Nebraskan Edl“ SSfn»plmp’v' ""“cSSSS gujFgdtac aJSSKT-SS wS*SSS _ ... 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Karen tells her story. 7-9 p.m. $3 all Russian Congress fails in bid to oust Yeltsin MOSCOW—Both President Boris Yeltsin and his chief political rival claimed victory Sunday after surviv ing an attempt by the Russian Con gress to remove them from office. But die secret ballot by the Con gress of People’s Deputies left the country s politi cal crisis unre solved after a dramatic day of rejected com Eromise and uge street ral lies. mmmmmmm mm a commu nist coup has failed. The people have won,” Yeltsin told thousands of cheer ing supporters outside the Kremlin after the vote. Waving his fist, he then led the crowd in a chant of “Russia! Russia! Russia!” Despite the euphoria, Yeltsin is now in the same predicament he faced before the Congress convened Friday. He vowed to press ahead with an April 25 referendum to resolve his power struggle with the parliament, dominated by former Communists who want to slow his frec-markel reforms. The parliament’s electoral com mission announced 617 legislators cast their ballots for Yeltsin’s ouster, short of the 689 votes, or two-thirds of the Congress, needed to remove him. Only 339 lawmakers voted to re place his rival, parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. At least 51X votes, a simple majority of the 1,033 member Congress, would have been needed to replace the 50-year-old parliament leader. - The vote followed Congress’ re jection of a compromise proposed by Yeltsin and Khasbulatov in an effort to end their political battle. The compromise enraged the leg islators because it wduld have elimi nated the Congress — and their jobs — in favor of a smaller, bicameral legislature. After the vote was announced, the Congress adjourned until Monday. Khasbulatov thanked the legislators for their support and said he was surprised by the outcome. “During the three years that I have filled this post.. .1 thought many more deputies had reason to be dissatisfied with me,” he said. Khasbulatov added that the voting signaled the need for a change in Yeltsin’s economic reforms. “When an enormous number of deputies. . .almost remove the president from office, we all have to think about this signal very seriously,” he said. Also Sunday, Yeltsin issued a se ries of decrees aimed at helping the people who have been hit by his eco nomic reforms. The measures double the minimum wage, increase allow ances for students and the disabled, improve health care funding for gov ernment workers and give regional governments the right to stabilize sky rocketing prices for basic goods. Yeltsin earlier told acrowdof about 50,000 supporters who rallied outside the Kremlin that he would not step down, even if the Congress voted to oust him. Experts think Iran inspired bombing WASHINGTON — Did Iran play an indirect role in the World Trade Center bombing? Although the actual bombing ap pears to be the work of amateurs, some experts feel Iran’s radical anti Western regime inspired the Feb. 26 attack that killed six, wounded more than 1,000 and caused $1 billion in damage. Vincent Cannistraro, former chief of CIA counterterrorism operations, said that the Iranians had been finane ing Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind fundamentalist Egyptian cleric believed to be the spiritual leader for at least four of the f ve Arabs charged in the bombing. Cannistraro declined to reveal the source of his information, but similar reports of Iranian financing have cir culated in Egypt, which suspects Abdel-Rahman of fostering terrorism. Abdel-Rahman, who preaches in New York City area mosques and is fighting deportation from the United States, has denied getting money from Iran and being involved in the bomb ing. Tehran has not made any official comment Some experts noted the method of the bombing was consistent with at tacks by Iranian-backed groups in the Middle East—especially in the use of a van or truck to deliver the explosive. Others suggested the Iranian influ ence was- more one of igniting the passion of the attackers rather than the bombs themselves. “They do it by inspiration knowing lull wen wnere inai wouia ieaa, saia Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Council at thfe Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. „ Richard Clutterbuck, a retired Brit ish major general and lecturer at Essex University, said such attackers may have no formal structure. “It is plausible for small groups to acton fundamentalistbeliefs they hold. . .without any chain of communica tion coming from a center,” said Clutterbuck, who has wriuen 12 books on terrorism. 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