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Serbs snub peace plan;
tough sanctions expected
BELGRADE, Y ugoslavia — The
leader of Bosnia’s Serbs rebuffed a
last-ditch attempt Sunday to gain back
ing for a U.N. peace plan and avoid
tougher sanctions on the remaining
states of Y ugoslavia.
The self-styled Bosnian Serb par
liament was expected to support
Radovan Karadzic’s rejection of the
plan, which calls for the division of
Bosnia among the three warring fac
tions.
Karadzic’s meeting with European
Community chief negotiator David
Owen was the last before sanctions
were scheduled to take effect at 6 a.m.
Monday (midnight EDT).
Possibly worse was to come. The
United Slates and its Western Euro
pean allies planned to consult next
week about the option of air strikes on
Bosnian Serb positions if they
continued to oppose the peace plan.
Karadzic was grim as he arrived in
the northeastern Bosnian town of
Bijelina to report to the Bosnian Serb
assembly.
“If World War III erupts, it will be
because of the Vance-Owen plan,” he
told reporters.
On Saturday, Owen stormed out of
a meeting with Karadzic in frustration
over obstacles set up by Bosnia’sSerbs
to a plan dividing Bosnia-Herzegovina
into 10 provinces along ethnic lines.
Bosnian Muslims and Croats al
ready have signed the plan, which
would give each group three prov
inces and split control of the capital,
Sarajevo, among them. As new U.N.
sanctions loom against Serbia and
Montenegro for backing Bosnia’s
Serbs in the Bosnian war, Owen re
doubled efforts to win agreement from
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic
to the plan.
Experts: Use of force in Bosnia
would mire U.S. in a long war
WASHINGTON—As thcClinton
adm inistration gropes for ways lo stop
the killing in Bosnia, military experts
warn that use of force could embroil
the United States in a lengthy chain of
action and reaction.
The most oft-mentioned military
plan calls for bombing Serbian artil
lery guns battering Muslim towns in
Bosnia.
Proponents, among them President
Clinton’s ambassador to the U.N.
Madeleine Albright and 12 Stale De
partment officials who wrote Secre
tary of Slate Warren Christopher urg
ing miliiary actibn, argne that air
stakes will still the guns and ease the
suffering.
Clinton appeared less certain Fri
day about a possible air strike.
“If the United Stales takes action,
we must have a clearly defined objec
tive that can be met, we must be able
to understand it, and its limitations
must be clear," he said.
That’s exactly what military plan
ners have been telling him. The AP
talked to two Pentagon officials, who
spoke only on condition of anonym
ity, and Sens. John Warner and John
McCain about the risks involved in a
military escalation.
Their worst case scenarios unfold
like this:
U.S. bombers strike the Serbian
artillery sites.
Bosnia does not lend itself to the
surgical air strikes like those against
Iraq, with its generally good weather
and fixed, dug-in troop formations
during the Gulf War.
The weather in Bosnia, says
Warner, obscures aerial identifica
tion of ground targets more than 50
percent of the lime, limiting chances
of a successful raid on the artillery.
Serb militiamen might respond by
moving the artillery into hilly terrain,
out of sight of overhead reconnais
sance flights.
Or they might move some of their
guns into civilian areas, a practice
they have already begun, experts warn.
Russian
vote
results
Exit poll of participants^
in Boris Yeltsin's vote of con
fidence.The first two questions
required a majority of ballots
cast to pass. The other two
required a majority of all
eligible voters.
YES
63.8%
2 Do you
approve of
the socio
economic policy
carried out by
the president of
the Russian
Federation and
the government
of the Russian
Federation since
the beginning
of 1992?
. .
3| Do you
I consider it
• necessary
to carry out
early elections
for the president
of the Russian
Federation?
Do you YES
consider it co cv
necessary 68.6%
to carry out
early elections
for tie deputies
Of the Russian
Federation?
tasufts are from an exit poll commissioned
by toe Associated Press and conducted In
face to face Interviews by toe Russian
Center tor Public Opinion and Market
Research.
Approximately 5,000people were poSed in
11 regions In Rueeto.
Al
Yeltsin survives
key referendum
MOSCOW — President Boris
Yeltsin won a vole of confidence in a
key referendum Sunday but was likely
to fall short in his push to force new
parliamentary elections, according to
exit polls and partial official results.
In a surprise development* most
voters backed Yeltsin’s market re
forms despite the hardships they have
brought, a result that may partially
mute Yeltsin’s critics in the hard-line
Congress of People’s Deputies.
But the turnout of about 65 percent
was too low to enable Yeltsin to force
elections. Approval for new elections
required a majority of Russia’s 105.5
million registered voters, not just of
those casting ballots.
Yet while voter support was strong
for new elections, it did not tally up to
a majority of the electorate, one poll
showed.
Such a result would also mean that
Yeltsin would not have the mandate
to push through a new constitution to
replace the Congress with a two-cham
ber, U.S .-style legislature. He had
hinted that he would take a “yes” vote
on elections as voter approval for a
new constitution.
Yeltsin sought a mandate for
change from the referendum so that
he could overcome the Communist
era parliament that has tried to thwart
his reforms and curb his powers.
Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev,
a close Yeltsin aide, said early returns
were encouraging, but he did not give
specifics.
Across 11 time zones, from snowy
Kamchatka to the balmy Black Sea,
millions of Russians voted by drop
ping a paper bal lot into a wooden box.
Many of the ballot boxes still bore
the hammer-and-sickle seal of the
Soviet Union.
Well-stocked buffets at polling
places did a brisk trade in imported
» cigarettes,coffee, beer, tomato sauce,
and other items — at market prices.
Brian snenitoVDN
The 62-year-old leader also made
a raft of promises to special interest
groups, raising pensions for the eld
erly, increasing stipends for students,
promising land to army officers and
reversing a decision to raise the price
of gasoline.
The referendum asked voters
whether they had confidence in
Yeltsin, who was elected to a five
year term in 1991 as Russia's first
popularly chosen president. Other
questions asked whether Russians
approved of his economic reforms
launched in 1992, and whether there
should be new presidential and parlia
mentary elections.
Anexitpollof 5,219 voters nation
wide by the Russian Center for Public
Opinion and Market Research found
that 63.8 perccntbacked the president
and a surprising 56 percent supported
his market reforms, despite die hard
ships.
The poll, commissioned by The
Associated Press, found that28.7 per
cent of those voting, or 18.5percentof
the total electorate, favored holding
presidential electionsearlier than cur
rently scheduled, in 1996.
Oklahoma tornado ‘flattens everything’ -— 7people die
TULSA,Okla.—National Guards
men searched for a missing child and
residents picked up belongings Sun
day along the path of a tornado that
killed at least seven, swept vehicles
from a highway and smashed homes
and businesses.
“This just flattened everything,”
Gov. David Walters said after seeing
the damage in Tulsa and suburban
Catoosa.
More than 95 people were treated
for injuries ranging from cuts to bums.
The twister toppled a church in
Tulsa. In Catoosa, it demolished at
least 60 mobile homes, 23 houses and
several businesses, Police Chief Benny
Dirck said.
Authorities concentrated their
search for a 4-ycar-old boy missing
since the tornado hit Saturday night.
“With a missing child, I didn ’t pay
a whole lot of attention to the property
damage,” Walters said from a demol
ished truck slop when he was asked
about the destruction.
Slate emergency director Tom
Feucrbom called a damage estimate
j I
_
of $100 million “very loose.” He said
he hoped 10 have belter totals after
teams from the state and the Federal
Emergency Management Agency
checked the area.
Walters sent about 100 National
Guardsmen to Catoosa and said he
would ask President Clinton for a
disaster declaration to make federal
funds available.
“We will ask early and often,”
Walters said, standing in front of the
truck stop where strips of shredded
metal roof dangled like Christmas
tree tinsel. Tractor-trailer rigs were
turned over in the lurck stop's park ing
lot.
Houses were left without walls or
roofs. Cars rested atop piles of rubble.
Garbage clung to the limbs of trees.
Utility crews worked through the night
to remove downed power lines.
People knelt precariously on the
ruins of their businesses and homes to
reach for belongings.
“A lot of people just want to give
up,” Dirck said.
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Mobs of gay marchers demand rights
WASHINGTON—Throngsof gay
men and women spilled across the
historic Mall on Sunday demanding
acceptance and equal rights from a
society that often scorns their com
munity. “A simple matter of justice”
was their rallying cry.
In brilliant, summery sunshine,
they came by the tens of thousands to
tell America who they are and what
they want, and hoping to shatter the
stereotypes that dominate many
people’s perceptions of the gay com
munity.
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“All gays aren’t flaming queens,”
said Steve Starr, 43, a Denver travel
agent marching alongside Robert
Jacobson, 37, a telephone company
technician.
Organizers hoped for a million
marchers, and predicted that in size,
their crowd would rival the great civil
rights and anti-war marches of the
past quarter-century.
The crowds clogging streets and
lawns on an unusually warm spring
day looked a lot like other summer
demonstrators in their shorts, colorful
T-shirts and sensible shoes. Some
same-sex couples held hands or
hugged.
March contingents ranged from
parents with their grown gay children
to gay parents pushing their toddlers
in strollers. There were disabled
people in wheelchairs, and a separate
group of marchers with AIDS.
T-shirts and banners advertised
attitudes from humorous to defiant.
“It’s not just a phase,” and ‘‘Friend or
phobe?’* _ _
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