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Peace in Bosnia may now demand a permanent Western presence, following the apparent triumph of Serb hard-liners in presidential elections. "Although the European election supervisors are holding back the result until next week, it does appear that [radical nationalist] Nikola Poplasen has beaten [moderate] Biljana Plavsic," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "And that's a serious blow for the West...
Leverett House: Roy E. Bahat, social studies; Hsin Chau, East Asian studies; Joseph I. Levinson, government; Geoffrey C. Rapp, economics; Nikola D. Simunovic, social studies; Connie W. Tang, applied mathematics...
...story to tell. One of them, Jacques Langevin, a highly respected war photographer who works for the Sygma agency, says he never followed the car but took pictures outside the hotel, then headed off to a dinner party only to come upon the crash scene while driving across town. Nikola Arsov of Sipa, another agency, says he also came upon the accident scene by chance after following the decoy cars sent out by the hotel. "I took five or six photos, but I forgot to turn on the flash and they didn't come out," he says. The photographers...
Vesovic and another friend, Nikola Koljevic, now a Bosnian Serb vice president, spent a week editing and improving a book of Karadzic's poems. It was published, and Karadzic neither objected nor thanked them for the changes they had made. Vesovic, who is planning to write a biography of Karadzic, says his former friend's only good book was a volume of poems for children. "He seemed to have understood children; he had this intuitive ability to grasp other people's minds if he wanted...
SARAJEVO: Nikola Koljevic, vice-president of the Serb Republic, on Tuesday visited Sarajevo, the city that he had been helping bomb only four months ago. "It's certainly the first time that any of the Pale leadership has publicly traveled to government-held Sarajevo since the war began in 1992," reports TIME's Massimo Calabresi. "And though it is probably more of a grip-and-grin meeting, it's still a significant step. Koljevic is thought to be connected to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, so there is at least a speculative link to power there." Koljevic met with Kresimir Zubak...