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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.
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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.
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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.
Iran has been able to expnd its
influence in part because of a rela
tively new ability to strike a common
political cause with Sunni Muslim*,^
sect which predominates in the Arab
world.
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