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DIED. MATE BOBAN, 57, chauvinistic Bosnian Croat leader who spearheaded the creation of the short-lived Croatian statelet of Herzeg-Bosna; of a stroke; in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1993 Boban waged a vicious campaign against Muslims in his drive for an ethnically pure Croatian republic...
...five U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopters swooped down on the Croatian village of Prevrsac, and out of one climbed U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright with a gaggle of reporters and cameramen in tow. She had just given President Franjo Tudjman a public lecture in Zagreb for failing to live up to the peace accord that ended the Yugoslav civil war 18 months earlier. In Prevrsac, standing, with cameras rolling, in front of a burned-out Serb home, she dressed down one of Tudjman's ministers over Croatian attacks against returning refugees. "It's disgusting," Albright snapped. Secretaries of State usually...
...percent of the country's thousands of ethnic Serbs to have a voice at the polls. Buoyed by recent U.S. approval of a $13 million loan, Tudjman took a tough line toward the U.S. during his campaign, calling Western criticism of his human rights record an attack on Croatian independence. "The West doesn't plan to play out the financial incentive for change," says Stiglmayer, "and Tudjman knows it." Although candidates calling for greater democracy took nearly 40 percent of the vote, ethnic groups in nearby Bosnia will read Tudjman's overwhelming victory as a deadend for pluralism...
...southern part of the country. Although the government says this will finally settle the bitter property dispute which has raged between Croats and Serbs since the area was recaptured by the government in 1995, TIME's Alexandra Stiglmayer says the decree is not likely to change anything. "The Croatian government has in the past habit to promise a lot under Western pressure but not really do it. The way they have blocked Serbs in the past is to erect bureaucratic obstacles that are so huge it is almost impossible to return. For example, you have to prove you have relatives...
...take responsibility for the Pope's daily security, NATO-led peacekeeping forces have dispatched anti-sniper teams and explosive-sniffer dogs to the city and set up a joint emergency center with police. The ultimate test of these security precautions comes on Sunday when the Pope, speaking in Serbo-Croatian, will address as many as 60,000 Catholic pilgrims at a mass in Kosevo Stadium. Many of the pilgrims traveling to Sarajevo will first have to pass through territories held by non-Catholic ethnic groups, a fact the Vatican has emphasized in detailing the attrition undergone by the Catholic Church...