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- WORLD, Page 43World NotesYUGOSLAVIAAnother Vote To Leave
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- In recent months, the future status of the ethnically mixed
- republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina seemed more likely to be settled
- by bullets than by ballots. But in two days of polling last
- weekend, 64% of the registered voters in the central Yugoslav
- republic cast votes on whether to follow Slovenia, Croatia and
- Macedonia into independence. Strong support among the
- republic's Muslims and Croats made for a virtually unanimous
- approval. Orthodox Serbs had been instructed to boycott the
- referendum. Even so, Western diplomats estimated that as many
- as 15% of Serbs also voted yes.
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- The referendum fulfills the conditions for diplomatic
- recognition set forth in December by the European Community. But
- conflicts at barricades that were erected by the Serbs after the
- vote proved there is still much work to be done. Late last
- month Bosnia's ethnic leaders agreed that while the republic's
- external borders should remain intact, political power should
- be devolved to give more autonomy to the various nationalities
- within. That leaves the country with the task of finding a
- workable middle way between civic unity and ethnic division.
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