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- <text id=92TT0543>
- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: World Notes:Yugoslavia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 43
- World Notes
- YUGOSLAVIA
- Another Vote To Leave
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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