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Seven months after he resigned the presidency of the Czechoslovak federation to protest its disintegration, Vaclav Havel is a President once more. Elected to a five-year term by the parliament of the four-week-old Czech Republic, Havel will preside from the same office in Prague's Hradcany Castle over about two-thirds of his former country. The onetime playwright and erstwhile communist-era dissident promised to maintain a "moral dimension" in his government and to serve as a "more experienced and wiser" statesman in promoting accord with his nation's new neighbor, Slovakia...
...with reservations. What was needed for the nine-point plan to offer even a slim chance of peace to a country wracked by war was approval by Bosnian Serbs. That happened Wednesday at the ski resort of Pale, 10 miles east of the besieged capital of Sarajevo, where a parliament representing Bosnia's Serbs approved the plan by a comfortable margin. Under the plan, drafted in Geneva earlier this month, the country would be divided into 10 provinces largely drawn up on ethnic lines. Bosnia would continue to exist as a whole, with representatives from the three ethnic groups forming...
Death is in the air from the first moments of Damage. A middle-age Member of Parliament (Jeremy Irons), comfortable in marriage to a rich, charming woman (Miranda Richardson) meets the enigmatic girlfriend (Juliette Binoche) of his son (Rupert Graves) and falls in love -- really falls, headfirst, from the precipice of his propriety. People don't survive this impact. They either die or are scarred forever by guilt and loss...
With so little changed in the lineup, Yeltsin is bound to face more battles , with the conservative parliament, which marked its petulance by passing a law last week on government structure, rejecting the President's request for ultimate executive authority. Under the circumstances, such legislation appeared little more than a reflection of reality...
With nationalist sentiment the ruling emotion, the war-crimes charges may have added cachet to some candidates. Washington had linked ultra-nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj and Serb militia chief Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznjatovic to Bosnian atrocities. Both were elected to the Serbian parliament. Though British Prime Minister John Major joined George Bush in pushing for enforcement of the U.N.-ordered no-fly zone over Bosnia, the Serbs showed no sign of backing off. The elections only emphasized their continuing defiance and kept Milosevic firmly in control...