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...elections being held under such conditions? Mostly because Bill Clinton wants them. Postponement "would have been an acknowledgment that the [U.S.] troops would have to stay in Bosnia a long time," says Morton Abramowitz, head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Clinton guaranteed Congress that U.S. troops, operating under the NATO-led Implementation Force (IFOR), would remain in Bosnia for one year. Americans are not particularly attentive to the complexities of foreign affairs, but voters would certainly notice if the timing of withdrawal unraveled. And it would hand Bob Dole and the Republicans a "quagmire" stick to whack Clinton...
...return of refugees, Croats and Muslims joined in as well. The Croats blocked the return of refugees to territory they hold in the southwest of the country, and the Muslims prevented Serbs from coming back to their homes in the suburbs of the once proudly multi-ethnic capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. All three groups have actively trampled other preconditions for fair elections as well: blocking freedom of association and freedom of expression. Forty miles east of Doboj, in Tuzla, for example, the ruling Muslim Party of Democratic Action (S.D.A.) has disrupted opposition rallies and oppressed non-S.D.A. members with...
...tripartite presidency, with one position per ethnic group, is unlikely to lead to a truly unified Bosnia. Just the opposite, says the front-running Serb candidate for the joint presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik. "If the Muslims try to press for a stronger [central government for] Bosnia and Herzegovina, that could lead to collapse," he threatens. Dismissing any talk of reintegration, he adds, "Bosnia is only a thin roof under which it has two, completely sovereign entities." Krajisnik even carries his vision for division to the bicameral parliament's architecture. He has suggested constructing a building on the former confrontation line with...
Political Initiation: High profile at convention; repaired homes for the poor in Kentucky; visited Bosnia, South Asia with Mom; attended Dad's State of the Union address...
SARAJEVO: Citing widespread abuse of rules and regulations, the international group charged with implementing the Dayton Agreement abruptly cancelled municipal elections across Bosnia Tuesday, a day before they were set to take place. U.S. diplomat Robert Frowick said that attempts by nationalist parties, particularly the Bosnian Serbs, to solidify ethnic divisions by forcing refugees to vote in particular areas, was the deciding factor in calling off the vote. Election laws say that voters can register to vote where they are now, where they lived before the war began in 1991, or where they would like to live. But giving Bosnia...