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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...
...Diplomats can paper over the widening cracks in the accords with glowing press releases for only so long. The September 14th elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina - a major test of the peace treaty - are approaching and with them the danger that the shaky agreement may crumble into a renewed Bosnian war. Chris McKenna
...decade. "For the entire region, this is probably a good thing. The jury's still out for the federation of Bosnia and the unstable government there," says TIME's Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "Stronger ties between Serbia and Croatia are not likely to be good for the Bosnian Muslims." Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis apparently played matchmaker, but Calabresi notes each man stands to gain from mutual recognition and the establishment of ties. "Both nations are in bad economic shape, so Milosevic sees the possibilities of greater trade with Croatia. Mending fences with Croatia also goes a long...
...decade. "For the entire region, this is probably a good thing. The jury's still out for the federation of Bosnia and the unstable government there," says TIME's Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "Stronger ties between Serbia and Croatia are not likely to be good for the Bosnian Muslims." Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis apparently played matchmaker, but Calabresi notes each man stands to gain from mutual recognition and the establishment of ties. "Both nations are in bad economic shape, so Milosevic sees the possibilities of greater trade with Croatia. Mending fences with Croatia also goes a long...
...works in TIME's Central Europe bureau, has a knack for being in the right place at the right reportorial time. For five years her remarkable contributions from the former Yugoslavia have added an enriching dimension to TIME's coverage of the conflagration; this week's story on Bosnian ex-President Radovan Karadzic--which charts his path from farm boy to psychiatrist to indicted war criminal--is no exception. "The thing I admire most about Alexandra," says Richard Hornik, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents, "is that she hates not getting the real story and simply will not stop until...