War-tom Bosnia to be divided, president will resign
GliNEVA (A!’) — Dosnla-Hnr/e
govimi's president agrein! Tuesday
to allow his battlo-lom country to
be divided into autonomous areas
and said ho would resign by the
end of tho year, apparently to im
prove relations with his Croat allies
Serbia, meanwhile, said il would ration heat and
power to cope with U N sanctions Imposed bn auso of
its role in the Bosnian civil war
Bosnian President Alija IzolbogovK s comment tame
ufter a meeting In Cenovu with the leaders of Croatia
and Yugoslavia
The leaders are trying to end the bloodshed and seek
u political resolution for the former Yugoslav federa
tion. which broke up in a war that has kllhxi at least
24.0(H) people und left more than 1 million homeless
lzetbegovic. long opposed to anything hul a unitary
Bosnian nation, said a proposal by international media
tors to create eight to 10 autonomous regions is "lully
acceptable."
But the Serbs, who control two-thirds of Bosnia, have
demanded their own state. Croats, who control most of
the other third, are nominal allies of the Muslim-led
government but also Independence-minded
"We don't want to form three religious stales We
want a European country." l/.oltx-govir said
The war begun in April, when Serbs look up arms af
ter refusing lo accept a referendum lor an independent
Bosnia The war has loft the Muslims, who moke up
aboul 4:1 portent of the republic's *1 million people, in
control of little land
The plan (list ussod by Izollrcgovir would create re
gions divided along geographic lines, keeping major
farming and industrial regions lntu< 1 and Sarajevo as
the administrative capital
In an unexpected move, betliegovlr aiso said he will
give up his presidency by December as foreseen under a
1900 constitution
As leader of Bosnia's defense throughout the B*
month-old war, he had t>ecn expia ted to slay in office
Yugoslav media have speculated he would hand over
power to on ethnic Croat, to maintain Croat loyalty to
the central government
Izotbcgovlt did not say who might succeed him
Meanwhile. Yugoslav President Dobricn Cosic and
Pronjo Tudjman, the Croatian leader, signer! an agree
merit to speed noriiiali/alioM of relations between their
states
Serbs hold about a third of Croatian territory, cap
tuns) in fighting after Croatia dis lartxi independence
from Yugoslavia Some 10,000 died in that war
Cosic refused a Croatian demand for immediate dip
lomatic recognition, hut the two agreed iq open liaison
offices and to grant dual citizenship to Serbs in Croatia
and Croats in Yugoslavia
It was unclear what effect the agreements would have
without the support of Slotxidan Milosevic, the hard
Ilru; Serbian president, or that of Serf) fighters In Bosnia
and Croatia, who have generally ignored pronounce
ments from outside
"There are some concrete results from the talks hut I
still don't know how they will he carried out."
Izelbegovlc said
Milosevic supports Serb fighters in Bosnia, while
Federal Premier Milan Panic has taken it more concilia
tory stand toward Bosnia's Muslim-led government.
Cosir said he had contacted Serb authorities in Bos
nia and Croatia "and insisted on the immediate stop
page of ethnic cleansing"- forced expulsion of other
ethnic; groups from the Serb-occupied regions in Croutio
and Bosnia
Bui in a move apparently aimed ol showing who
holds the power In Yugoslavia, troops from Milosevic's
Serbian police forced the federal interior minister Tues
day to abandon bis Belgrade office to Serbian police
There are about 40,000 Serbian police, compared to
1,000 federal police
The United Nations, meanwhile, said Serb fighters
have blocked the road from Sarajevo's airport lo the city
several limes, defying an agreement to keep il open for
aid deliveries
Shelling ol relief convoys and new fighting along key
roads throughout Bosnia have "all but shut down" aid
deliveries by land, as local commanders often ignore
guarantees of safe passage made by their leaders, a IJ.N
spokeswoman in Geneva said
Opposition meets in West Bank
JERUSALEM (A**) — Load
or# of tho opposition Likud
Party met Tuoadny In (ho oc
cupiod West Bank and criti
cized tho government's han
dling of a recujit wuvo of Arab
attacks.
Likud loador Yllxhuk Sha
mir, tho (armor primo minis
ter, said ho believed Uio Arabs
were emboldened by "the
policy of concessions" of llui
loft-contcr government of
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rubin,
which has pledged to speed
up Anib-lsruoli |>oace talks.
The seventh round of U.S.*
backed Middle Last negoti
ations is scheduled to begin
Wednesday in Washington.
Israel has offered the Pales
tinians limited self-rule with
an elected administrative
council to run such activities
as health, education and reli
gious affairs.
The Palestinians have de
manded an elected, lawrnak
ing body and u commitment
from Israel that the period of
limited autonomy will load to
talks on independence for the
West Dank and Curat Strip.
A source close to Rubin told
The Associated Press Tuesday
that the government was
ready to grant the Palestinian
body limited powers, includ
ing the power to pass bylaws.
The territories, captured by
Israel from Jordan and hgypt
in the Htt.7 Middle bust war,
are home to 1 ti million Pales
tinians. They have boon torn
for nearly five years by an
Arab uprising aimed at ending
Israeli occupation.
(■rowing violence in the
past two weeks, including
several attacks on Israelis, lias
inspired growing rightist criti
cism of Rubin's peacemaking
plans.
The Likud gathering oc
curred near tho settlement of
Mathityahu, whom u Jewish
woman was burned to death
last Saturday when the van in
which she was riding trig
gered the trip-wire of a road
side bomb. Nino others wore
injured
Tho Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palostlno
claimed responsibility Tues
day for the bombing. saying
the attack was to avange last
week's death of Hussein
Oboidat, the first Palestinian
to die following a collective
hunger strike undertaken by
Palestinian prisoners
An autopsy, ip which a Pal
estinian physician stood tn for
the family, confirmed
Obcidat's death by heart at
tack was unrelated to the hun
ger strike. Oboidat was 20 and
had been serving a six-year
sentence for membership in
l he OFLP
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Moscow McDonald s
bombed with grenade
MOSCOW (A!*) — Two drunken men were urrustod for throwing
ii grenade at a police station near (lie Moscow McDonald's, an at
tack that injured a 5-year-old girl and seven other people waiting to
enter the restaurant, authorities said Tuesday.
Police said the Monday night bombing was aimed at their pre
cinct building and not the adjacent fast-food restaurant, which has
been jammed daily with Russians and foreign tourists since open
ing in 1990.
Officials suid five Russians and three Afghans were injured.
"There was such an explosion that I forgot my television was
broken I thought the set had exploded,” suid Online Schwarz, 75,
whose apartment window one Itixir above the precinct was shat
tored by the blast
The explosion u< curred at 7 p m. several'yards from the entrance
to McDonald's, which faces Pushkin Square.
The Interfax news agency quoted Security Ministry spokesman
Alexander Mikhailov as saying the explosive was an KCD-5 anti
personnel fragmentation hand grenade. It was thrown in a window
of Precinct No 10B, hut ricocheted otl protective iron bars, fell to
the pavement and exploded, Interfax said.
It shuttered tfie precinct office's windows and three windows in
the apartment complex above it fragments injured eight pimple
waiting in the McDonald's line, police Col. Yuri Fcdosnyev said.
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