YUGOSLAV EVENTS CHRONOLOGY
	JAN.-APRIL 1998

Jan. 1 - 	Albanian opposition coalition leader Adem Demaci warns 
		that worsening of the situation between the Kosovars and
		the Serbian authorities= is worse now than 6 months ago,
		criticizes shadow-state leader Ibrahim Rugova for wishful
		thinking; Speaker of Mon. parl., Svetozar Marovic, says
		Bulatovic is preparing his followers for armed 
		confrontation w/ both reformers and Alb. and Mus.
		minorities; Djukanovic says Yugo=s problems are largely
		its own fault, not result of intl. conspiracy, calls Bel.
		suicidal for indulging in policy that intl. sanctions
		would help Bel. develop its own resources; Nasa Borba
		names Djukanovic >man of the year= for promoting pol.
		change in Yugo.; UN police find 100 crates of arms
		belonging to formjer JNA hidden near Vukovar including
		rocket launchers, heavy machine-guns, and ammo.

Jan. 3 - 	Patriarch Pavle condemns violent crackdown by police
		of student protests in Pristina, Djakovica, and Pec on
		30 Dec., says police not only >broke the rules (of
		peaceful protest) but besmirched the honor of the
		country where we live=, calls for Alb-Serb dialogue,
		compromise and that Albanians should recognize Serbia
		as their country and not confuse it with the regime

Jan. 4 - 	Kos. Liberation Army announces that it has begun the
		fight for the unification of Kosovo w/ Albania; Kos.
		students to continue protests; 2 bombs explode near
		police garage, car in Mac.

Jan. 5 - 	Plavsic expresses full support for PM-designate Mladen
		Ivanic; Zubak comments that Croats= problem is that they
		are joined in fed. w/ Mus. who seek to dominate
		arrangement, trying to prevent return of tens of thousands
		of Croats to their former homes, says Serbs, Croats have
		common int. in blocking >Mus. attempts= at dominating Bos.
		joint institutions and that it is often easier to neg. w/
		Kraj. than w/ Izet.; Izet. says multi-ethnic Yugoslavia
		ideal of Tito no longer possible, wants to strengthen Bos.
		institutions and says strong Bos. is in int. of Croatia
		since they face common rival in Serbia; Spanish King Juan
		Carlos visits Span. pks in Mos., Medjugorge, along w/ 
		Westendorp and Solana; UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan says UN
		observer mission on Croatia=s Prevlaka peninsula should
		be extended for another 6 months; Rus. govt. reported to
		have approved $150 mil. loan to Yugo. on Dec. 27;
		Kosovo students call for peaceful and dem. solution to
		problems, thank Serbian Patriarch Pavle for his criticism
		of police violence, urge him to make complete break w/
		Serbian govt.=s methods


Jan. 6 - 	Izet. adviser Mirza Hajric says Zubak=s ideas are part
		of >long-standing plan= of Tudj., Milo. to partition
		Bos.; Westendorp tells Bos. Serbs that they must set
		up govt. or he will take >appropriate measures= while
		another intl. rep. delivers same message to Kraj., also
		says intl. community to appoint person to supervise work
		of Bos. Serb TV in BL after station aired strongly anti-
		Croat program during Christmas this past December;
		spokesman says Pale request for return of transmitters
		rejected; Plavsic says Dayton Accords will be dead if
		intl. community does not give Brcko to RS, says Serbs
		will not accept it being cut in two; Kara. reported to
		have drawn up strategy to sabotage Dayton past November,
		document shown to Clinton during his visit; Netherlands
		announces that it will restore 450 buildings, objects in
		Mos. while US says it will give $29 mil. for resettlement
		of refs. in BH; Croatian officials tell Bos. govt. that
		references to Mus., Slo. minorities in Croatian
		constitution dropped since these groups are not
		native= to Croatia but instead have migrated there in
		recent times; Bel. court questions validity of Oct. 19
		Mon. election; Mon. Dep. PM Miodrag Vukovic says he
		will propose ref. on Mon. ind. from Yugo. if Milo. ends
		Mon. equal status w/ Serbia; Trial of Croat war crimes
		suspect Zlatko Aleksovski begins in Hague

Jan. 7 - 	Statement bearing name of Kos. Liberation Army (UCK)
		takes responsibility for recent attacks in Mac., 
		although Mac. authorities deny that it has a presence
		in the country, while Albanian state TV says UCK is
		not active among Mac. Albanians; US envoy Gelbardsays
		US may find it necessary to declare UCK a terrorist
		org., warns Croatia to dismantle remaining Herceg-
		Bosna institutions; NATO ambassadors say Kos. is 
		cause for >great concern=; Ger. DM Ruehe tells 
		Slovene officials that they will be included in NATO
		asap, that Ger. will help train their officers and
		modernize the army

Jan. 8 - 	Serbian Educ. Min. says he will increase salaries
		of teachers in Kos. by 20% in recognition of the 
		difficulty of their work; Contact Group members urge
		Serbian authorities to >make concrete progress= in
		improving conditions in Kos., that progress is
		condition for Yugo. return to active participation
		in intl. community, says it doesn=t favor ind. nor
		continuation of the status quo there;
		Contact Group also says to Bos. groups that >further
		temporizing will not be tolerated=, urge Bos. Serbs
		to form new govt. and to broadcast parl. sessions live,
		call for end to delays in appointing ambassadors,
		implementing results of local elections; Jacques
		Klein says in BL that intl. community supports 
		Plavsic choice of Mladen Ivanic as Bos. Serb PM, 
		says he is >an exceptional character=; Pks and intl. 
		police to block attempts to interfere w/ public 
		transport across borders inside Bos.; Sarajavo City 
		Council elects Rasim Gacanovic of Mus. Party of Dem. 
		Action (SDA) mayor, Ante Zelic of Croatian Democratic 
		Community (HDZ) as deputy bringing to end SDA refusal 
		to allow other parties in city govt.;
		Tudjman says return of Eastern Slavonia will mean 
		Croatia can concentrate on building democracy and 
		improving its economy; new US amb. to Croatia, William 
		Dale Montgomery says Croatia must become more democratic

Jan. 9 - 	UCK says it carried out 3 bombings in Macedonia as 
		warnings to Mac. police not to coop. w/ Serbs in joint 
		crackdown against UCK; Yugo. PM Radoje Kontic appoints 
		Milo. man Zivadin Jovanovic to succeed Milan Milutinovic 
		as Yugo. FM; Serb killed by unidentified gunman near 
		Klina in Kosovo; Serbs in Kosovo town of Drenica 
		(w. of Pristina) demand Milo. protect them from UCK 
		while Bozur (Peony) Society of Serbs and Montenegrins 
		in Kos. sends delegation to talk w/ Milo.; 

Jan. 10 - 	Bulatovic supporters demand formation of Ainterim 
		govt.@ which will exclude Djukanovic backers, while 
		pres. of Mon. Con. Ct. says Bulatovic may declare 
		state of emer. to extend his time in office; Yugo. 
		Def. Min. Pavle Bulatovic says army will not intervene,
		that it should be solved peacefully and democratically

Jan. 11 - 	Mon's. Bulatovic says he will not yield power to 
		Djukanovic as scheduled on 15 Jan., calls for Apeaceful 
		and dignified civic resistance@ demonstrations in 
		Podgorica for next day; Westendorp calls on Bos. Serbs 
		to support new PM Mladen Ivanic

Jan. 12 - 	US special envoy Robert Gelbard meets w/ Bulatovic, 
		Djukanovic, declares Wash. support of elec. results, 
		pledges $2 mil. for reforms, warns Bul. supporters 
		that it would be Aserious error@ to oppose the will 
		of the people; Yugo. PM Kontic in Podgorica for talks 
		w/ Bul. after which Bul. announces he will hold talks 
		w/ Djukanovic; Ethnic Albanian supporter of Bel. killed 
		by unidentified gunmen in Glogovac area, gunmen in Stimlje
		fire upon Serbian police station; Kara. supporters meeting
		in Bijeljina re-elect Dragan Kalinic speaker, w/ Nikola 
		Poplasen (Serbian Radical Party) and Jovan Mitrovic 
		(Serbian People=s League) as deputies, but do not vote 
		for PM candidate despite Westendorp demands that they 
		elect Mladen Ivanic; SDS rejects Ivanic offer of 6 seats 
		in his cabinet, refuse to let him address parl.; 
		Westendorp appoints committee of 7 intellectuals to 
		make recommendations to him by Feb. 15 on new Bos. flag
		NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark says alliance 
		has no position on Croatian request to join NATO's 
		Partnership for Peace, but that Croatia must first 
		abide by Dayton provisions; Croatian For. Min. anounces 
		that it will assert its sovereignty throughout the 
		country including E. Sla., Prevlaka peninsula, Ploce, 
		Gulf of Piran

Jan. 13 - 	15,000 Bulatovic supporters carry out late-night 
		demonstration in Podgorica while police confiscate guns, 
		explosives from crowd; Bul. denies comments by US special 
		envoy Robert Gelbard that he has accepted his defeat; 
		Nasa Borba reports that army considers Kos. problem to 
		be top priority and as such will not get involved in Mon.;
		Speakers at Bozur Serb rally in Kosovo Polje say that Serb
		authorities in Bel. have assured them that Albanian 
		Anationalists and extremists will not be permitted to 
		carry out Aterrorism against them, leader Bogdan Kecman
		promises more rallies; UCK reported to be in control of 
		60sq. kilometer territory around Srbica;
		UN Sec. Coun. votes to extend mandate of mil. observer 
		mission over demilitarization of Prevlaka peninsula;
		Plavsic claims that Milo., as well as US, both endorse 
		her nominee for PM, Mladen Ivanic which Kraj. confirms, 
		but says also that far-right wing parties want to name 
		someone else; Bos. presidency finally names 32 
		ambassadors, although they don=t agree on US post 
		which Serbs want and Croats, Mus. demand be possibly 
		a Jew or other ethnic group; NATO announces that Danish 
		SFOR troops have seized 2 tons of arms from Bos. Serb 
		homes in Ozren area (between Doboj and Tuzla)


Jan. 14 - 	Djukanovic, Bul. hold talks to resolve differences 
		under pressure from Bel but do not come to agreement., 
		Nasa Borba reports that Serbian Pres. Milutinovic will 
		attend Djukanovic inauguration, 8,000 Bul. supporters 
		fight w/ police in Podgorica, try to storm govt. 
		buildings, attack police w/ hand grenades wounding 45 
		police and 6 demonstrators; Gelbard says Albright has 
		warned Milo. in telephone conversation the previous 
		weekend not to disrupt transfer of power; Mon. For. 
		Min. Branko Perovic sends letter to ambassadors of 
		western countries, Rus. calling for Aurgent diplomatic 
		steps to calm crisis in Mon.; Tudj. pledges continued 
		peaceful integration of E. Sla. into Croatia;
		Kara. supporters in Pale resume TV broadcasting in 8
		mile radius area

Jan. 15 - 	UN returns control of E. Sla. to Croatia in village 
		of Borovo Naselje (near Vuk.), Gelbard delivers Clinton 
		letter to Vuk. saying Cro. cannot be whole unless it is
		also tolerant and diverse; Djukanovic sworn in as Mon. 
		pres., warns Milo. that Yugo. will not exist without 
		equal rels. between Serbia and Mon. and that Serbia must 
		honor Dayton Accords; Mon. Int. Min. Filip Vujanovic 
		bans further demonstrations calling Bul. supporters 
		violent, calls for Aall govt. and intellectual circles 
		in Serbia@ to help calm situation; Gelbard says in Bel. 
		that US is deeply concerned and the intl. community 
		Adeeply offended by the absolutely outrageous behavoir 
		by Bul....I hold him responsible but Milo. as well in 
		not restraining Bul.; Dem. Union of Albanians, Dem. 
		League (also Albanian) announce that they will join 
		Djukanovic govt.

Jan. 16 - 	RS PM Mladen Ivanic resigns after being unable to 
		find majority in parl. for proposed nat.-unity govt.; 
		600 Serbs attack UN police, Muslim politicians in Sreb.;
		Rus. For. Min. strongly opposes statement by Yugo. army 
		Chief-of-Staff Gen. Momcilo Perisic that Bel. should 
		aimfor NATO membership to end its intl. isolation, that
		Euro. countries should concentrate their efforts on 
		creating Eur. without demarcation lines;
		Greece offers mediation efforts in Kosovo

Jan. 17 - 	Moderate Serbs team up w/ Croats, Muslims in RS parl. 
		to elect ind. Social Dem. Milorad Dodik, 38, as PM in 
		Bijeljina, wins w/ 42 of 83 votes after Kara. supporters 
		walk out; Dodik promises to coop. w/ Dayton Accords, 
		intl. community; new DM to be Gen. Manojlo Milovanovic, 
		Int. Min. Milovan Stankovicl; OSCE condemns previous 
		day's attack in Sreb.

Jan. 18 - 	Kraj., Buha say they do not accept Dodik election as 
		legitimate, Buha says SDS will not recognize actions 
		of new govt.; SFOR troops guard Int. Min. in pale, 
		increase presence in Bijeljina

Jan. 19 - 	SDS meeting in Pale calls on supporters to avoid violence
		but calls election of Dodik 'sham', but Yugo. PM Kontic 
		sends message to Dodik wishing him 'every success';
		Djukanovic proposes Filip Vujanovic as new Mon. PM; Int. 
		Min. arrests 7 more in connection w/ violence prior to 
		inauguration; Milo. promises Bob Dole in Bel. that govt. 
		will make available info. on 400 people missing in Vuk. 
		in '91; Tudj. later promises Dole 'complete support' to 
		clarify fate of missing persons; Croatian Serb Slavko 
		Dokmanovic goes on trial in Hague for atrocities against 
		Cro. civilians, wounded soldiers in Vuk.; new mass graves 
		being investigagted in border villages by Croatian 
		authorities

Jan. 20 - 	Westendorp decides on new design for Bos. currency 
		without any nationalist symbols; Bos. Serbs get first 
		credit for $10 mil. to repair Sara. gas supply system; 
		Westendorp says RS needs intl. assistance to ensure 
		basic necessities such as food for people

Jan. 21 - 	Dragan Kalinic, speaker of Bos. Serb parl. and member 
		of SDS says its deputies will hold their own parl. 
		session; Mac. Pres. Gligorov  says conflict could 
		break out in Kosovo and NATO, EU must pay close attention 
		to region 

Jan. 22 - 	Amer. SFOR troops in Bijeljina (US sector)  arrest Bos. 
		Serb prison commander, Goran Jelisic, 29, who calls 
		himself the ASerb Adolf@, bragged about the number of 
		Muslims he killed during war, and challenged intl. 
		community to bring him to justice; NATO says he is 
		indicted Afor the murder of more than 16 persons, 
		torture, theft, plunder and ordering the murder of 
		many others@ while commandant of Luka prison camp 
		(near Brcko) in >92; Solana says it is not pks job to 
		seek out war criminals although they will do so when 
		they come across them but "we must do things so as to 
		avoid big risks.  We must proceed intelligently";
		Serb police kill 1, wound 2 in Donji Prekaz, human rts. 
		group says police cut off telephones and electricity to 
		village before firing on it; Gunmen kill local Serb 
		politician Desimir Vasic on Srbica-Klina road, prevent 
		police from retrieving his body immediately
		Milomir Minic of Milo's Socialist Party says 
		authorities "will not tolerate terrorism" and says 
		ethnic minorities in Serbia have more rights than do 
		minorities in many other Eur. countries; EU approves 
		$110 mil. aid package for assisting in return of refs. 
		to Bos.; Bos. PM Dodik meets w/ Milo. in Bel., while 
		predecessor Gojko Klickovic says he will hand over power 
		peacefully even though he didn't consider election legal;
		Seselj says in Serbia that his party will not form a 
		coalition govt. w/ Milo. supporters, nor will it allow 
		a minority govt.; Draskovic demands Serbian premiership,
		key ministries in both Serb and Yugo. govt. in exchange 
		for his participation in a govt.

Jan. 23 - 	Bos. Serb PM Dodik, Croats, Muslims reach agreement 
		on common license plate for cars

Jan. 24 - 	2 Serb policemen wounded by assailants in Malisevo, 
		Kosovo, 150 Serb police then enter town beat passersby 
		and attack homes of Albanians (4 Albs. wounded); hand 
		grenade thrown in Grabanica; Plavsic meets w/ SDS leader
		Dragan Kalinic, agree to hold next legislative session 
		in Teslic; Liberal Party founded in Zag. by 800 
		supporters including Vlado Gotovac, former presidential
		candidate of Croatian Social-Liberal party

Jan. 25 - 	Mayor of Zvecan, Desko Petkovic, tells thousands of 
		Serbs at Vasic funeral that govt. "should take all 
		legal measures to eradicate Alb. terrorism in Kos., 
		while other speakers are more critical of Milo.; 
		opposition Citizens League of Serbia condemns spread 
		of terrorism in Kosovo, says Milo. regime causing "chaos" 
		to maintain its grip on power; Rugovo calls for intl. 
		"intervention" to prevent more viol.; 2 bombs detonated
		in Mon., police say these might be indications of new 
		campaign of sabotage as part of political process

Jan. 26 - 	Jelisic, identifying himself to Hague tribunal as 
		>Adolf=, pleads not guilty; Westendorp says outgoing 
		Bos. Serb govt. not moving quickly enough in handing 
		over power to Dodik, also calls on legislators to adopt 
		to 1 of 3 proposed flag designs or he will choose it for
		them; Int. Min. handed over to new Min., Milovan 
		Stankovic; Contact Group also calls on Serbs to cooperate
		in the transition; EU appoves $6.5 million aid package 
		for RS to pay back wages to police, teachers, govt. 
		employees; Plavsic signs agreement w/ World Bank rep. 
		to provide $17 million credit to RS; UN announces that 
		Bos. Serbs have agreed to re-try 3 Muslims of Zvornik 
		Seven group for murder in '96

Jan. 27 - 	Dodik govt. drops 17 directors of state-owned enterprises,
		fires editor of hard-line paper "Glas Srpski", to appoint
		new editors for Bos. Serb TV also; Bos. Serb Defense 
		Minister Manojlo Milovanovic says Mladic is free from 
		NATO troops thanks to security system;
		Bri. For. Sec. Robin Cook on behalf of EU calls on Serb 
		auth. to open Albanian language schools in Kosovo, says 
		Bel. is Acreating a breeding ground for terrorism and 
		violence@, says AEU supports a high degree of autonomy 
		[for Kosovo] but we cannot support any acts of violence 
		or terrorism@; Yeltsin, Gligorov sign Adeclaration of 
		friendly rels. and coop.@ in Moscow making Mac. the only 
		former Yugo. republic to have such an agreement;
		Croatian Interior Ministry begins investigation of 3 
		former soldiers who may have conducted kidnappings, 
		murders of Serbs, anti-nationalist Croats in Gospic area 
		in >91; Tudj. calls for greater social justice and defense
		of freedoms and rights of each citizen in annual state of 
		the nation speech, also calls for normalizing rels. w/ 
		Bel. and demilitarizing Prevlaka peninsula

Jan. 28 - 	Serb police shoot ethnic Albanian teenager in Kosovska 
		Mitrovica while in Kosovo Polje, Ljipljan Serbs beat 
		Albanian high school students, sing nationalist songs, 
		attack private school; Serb police seal off village near 
		Decani and fire machine guns at targets while also 
		beating males there; 2,000 Serbs march in Zvecan near 
		Kosovska Mitrovica protesting AAlbanian terrorism and 
		separatism@, denounce Belgrade=s policies; Council of 
		Europe condemns Bel. policy of repression;
		Bomb destroys car of top police official in Podgorica

Jan. 29 - 	15,000 ethnic Albanians attend funeral of slain teenager
		in Kamenica, police say killing was involuntary; Serb 
		President Milutinovic refuses to see delegation of 
		Kosovo Serbs who want protection; Serb military sees 
		no reason to become involved in situation; hand grenade 
		thrown at Serbs house overnight near Pristina

Jan. 30 - 	Rugova calls for intl. community making Kosovo 
		protectorate, that Albanians would accept transitional 
		period of 2 years while a referendum on Kosovo's status 
		is organized

Jan. 31 - 	New Bos. Serb govt. of PM Milorad Dodik sworn in, SDS 
		delegates walk out of parl. session at beginning and 
		Croatian, Mus. deputies leave when Serbian Orthodox 
		religious part of inauguration begins; 56 of 83 deputies 
		vote to move RS capital from Pale to BL; Croatian govt. 
		says it would like to open consulate in BL, waits for 
		Bos. joint presidency permission to do so; DM Susak says
		Croatia may be able to join NATO=s PfP by end of >98;
		Bomb damages home of Mon. Pres. supporter in Bijelo Polje 
		(3rd exp. in 10 days)


Feb. 2 - 	Head of USAID, J. Brian Atwood says RS now qualifies for 
		US aid money, praises Dodik, says that w/ intl. assistance
		Mus-Croat Fed. might reach 80% of pre-war GDP by 2000, also
		warns Muslims that they must allow Serbs, Croats to return
		to their homes; new license plates released to public by 
		Jacques Klein (no identifying place of residence)

Feb. 3 - 	Westendorp, Gelbard, other intl. community reps. open 
		conference in Sara. on allowing refs. to go home, draft 
		document calling on Mus. to let 20,000 Serbs return to 
		capital, calls for 14 day deadline for govt. to restore 
		porpoerty rts. to non-Mus. former residents of capital, 
		Izet. attempts to attach conditions to declaration which 
		Westerndorp rejects, US threatens to cut off financial aid 
		if property rts. not restored in alloted time; Car bomb 
		kills 1 Mus. man, wounds second in Mostar; local Croat TV 
		news resumes in Mostar after 2 month break for anti-Mus. 
		sentiments according to OSCE
		Opposition forces in Vojvodina contend that Serbia calling
		up reservists

Feb. 4 - 	Westendorp introduces, imposes new flag; Bos. Serb 
		officials agree to accept 1 million pieces of mail sent 
		to RS; Hercegovinian Croats warned by Westendorp=s office 
		to stop harassing returning Muslims in Stolac, mayor of 
		town threatened with firing if he does not cooperate with
		intl. community; Yugo. govt. turns over to Croatia medical
		files of 393 Croats who disappeared in Vukovar while under
		Serb control, 350 other files to be used to help identify
		victims in Vukovar cemetary; OSCE criticizes Croatia for
		policies on returning refs.; Mac. PM Crvenkovski says 
		that he wants a AEuropean@ pk force stationed in his 
		country when current UN pk mandate runs out in Aug.; 
		Russia reportedly does not favor NATO role in Mac.

Feb. 5 - 	Bri. Junior FM Tony Lloyd says in Tirana Serbs and 
		Kosovars Aneed to move toward greater autonomy for the 
		Albanians in Kos. and the recognition that neither 
		separatism nor violence offers any solution to the Kos. 
		Albanians, says that EU condemns violence from any side 
		and won't discuss separatism; Serbian govt. stops mail 
		deliveries to 20 mainly Albanian villages in Srbica, 
		Glogovac areas due to sec. concerns; 
		Klein recommends that Bos. passports remove reference to 
		which part of republic holders come from; Hague reiterates
		that Kara. arrest warrant is still valid, that he should 
		be immediately arrested and sent to Hague if he leaves 
		RS; US negotiator Robert Owen chairs new talks in Vienna	
		on Brcko (deadline: March 15)

Feb. 6 - 	Rugova calls on intl. community to pressure Serbia to 
		stop violence, begin dialogue w/ Kosovars, also calls 
		for Kos. independence, Ger. FM Kinkel visits Tirana, 
		says Kos. should have Aextended autonomy@ within Serbia 
		but not be ind., comments that there are 400,000 mainly 
		Kos. Albanians in Ger. and this is a problem;
		Bos. Serb Goran Vasic, wanted for Jan. >93 murder of Bos. 
		Dep. PM Hakija Turajlic arrested by fed. police

Feb. 7 - 	Kraj. says he will work w/ Dodik=s govt Ain the interests
		of the RS@; Westerndorp dep. Hanns Schumacher tells 
		Croatian, Mus. leaders in Mostar they must agree on appt. 
		of city officials in 6 districts by end or month or he 
		will do it; Dodik criticizes arrest of Vasic saying this 
		will discourage other Serbs war crimes suspects from 
		turning themselves in


Feb. 8 - 	TANJUG accuses Kinkel of interference in Yugo. affairs; 
		Alb. PM Nano says his govt. is following the situation 
		in Kos. with great concern, says situation should improve
		as Yugo. becomes more democratic; 16 Croatian Serbs in 
		Split end hunger strike after 6 days after Justice Min. 
		promises to speed up their appeals; Yugo. govt. rep. 
		dealing w/ missing persons says Croatian govt. stalling 
		on info. relating to 3,143 missing Serbs from >91 war;
		700 Bos. Serbs protest arrest of Vasic, block road near 
		Lukavica

Feb. 9 - 	Bos. Serb PM Milorad Dodik announces that UN war crimes
		tribunal will open office in Banja Luka where Serb 
		suspects may turn themselves in but that extradition 
		is not permitted, Brcko must be turned over to Serbs 
		or his govt. will fall, Plavsic in Paris agrees that 
		Brcko must be given to Serbs if intl. community wants 
		Serb coop. on Dayton; UN police says fed. police used 
		unnecessary violence in arresting Vasic on 6 Feb.; Gov. 
		of Sara. canton, Midhat Haracic, calls for Olympic games 
		to be returned to Sara.; Slovenia govt. says their 
		country had donated 49,562 liters of veg. oil, 14,009 
		cans of beans to food aid program in BL area
		Mac. Albanian parties call for dialogue on Kos. to 
		prevent war; Head of opp. Vojvodina Social Dems., 
		Nenad Canak, says mil. denies his charge that 
		reservists being called up, sent to Kos.

Feb. 10 - 	Dem. League of Kos. spokesman says Serbian police are
		trying to intimidate Albanians in Srbica on daily basis,
		have resumed patrols on Srbica-Klina road but bus traffic 
		has not resumed, UCK said to be maintaining strong 
		presence in area; Izet. protests French reception of 
		Plavsic saying it amounted to treating her as head of 
		state showing French favoritism towards Serbs, calls French
		action Aarrogant behavior typical of a great power@; 
		Dodik tells Brcko arbitration commission in Vienna that 
		Brcko must be Serb if his govt. is to survive, while 
		Ejup Ganic, pres.of Mus-Croat Fed. says this would be 
		rewarding genocide; Dodik, other Serb, Bosnian Serb 
		leaders meet w/ Milo. in Bel., agree to coop. in 
		metallurgy, other areas; Zag.-Dub. highway to be 
		financed by Bechtel Corp.

Feb. 11 - 	Plavsic tells intl. arbitration commission that Brcko 
		must be Serb or Aany other solution will mean the 
		division of the republic and a viol. of the Dayton 
		agreement@, warns against allowing for re-unification 
		of Bos. as it is not in the interests of Serbs or peace,
		comments that Awe can communicate on the basis of our 
		being separated, but if everyone returns to his 
		home...one may ask why so many victims and why recreate 
		a situation that will lead us to war in a year or two?@;
		Izet., Silajdzic, other coalition members meet in Sara. 
		to discuss Brcko, warn that if Owen gives Brcko to Serbs 
		Mus. deputies in RS parl. will withdraw their support for
		Dodik govt.; Bos. FM Jadranko Prlic receives official note
		from Yugo. govt. rejecting est. of dip. relations until 
		charges of genocide by BH against Yugo. at the WCT are 
		dropped; 51% of Croats against est. of US bases in the 
		country, 31 in favor, 17 undecided, while plurality of 
		respondents have positive view of Americans and feel 
		bases would have positive effect on Croatian pol. life 
		(DM Susak after visit to US said NATO Supreme Allied 
		Commander Gen. Wesley Clark had asked permission to 
		station troops in Croatia as backup for those in Bos.;
		Zadar, Slavonski Brod mentioned as possible sites)
		Vojvodina opp. figures again accuse Bel. of illegally 
		mobilizing reserves


Feb. 12 - 	Plavsic, back from France, Austria says intl. support 
		for RS govt. Aguaranteed@, says Euro. leaders have told 
		her they are pleased RS has decided to Afind its place@ 
		in Eur.; Solana says improved pol. situation could allow 
		NATO to make substantial cuts in troops; Croatian govt. 
		annuls Jan. >98 decree which would have allowed for 
		eviction of thousands of Serbs from state-owned apts. 
		in E. Sla. formerly occupied by Croats who were entitled
		to return to their homes, OSCE welcomes decision

Feb. 13 - 	Mus. crowd stones 3 Swe. relief agency vehicles, injure 
		2 Bos. Serbs near Jablanica claiming that one of the 
		Serbs had been involved in deaths of Muslims during war;
		WCT president Judge Gabrielle McDonald calls on UN Sec. 
		Coun. for more resources including witness protection 
		program, more jail cells, another judge, and court room 
		for 3 judges, without this it will take years to bring to
		trial 20 suspects currently in custody

Feb. 14 - 	Bos. Serb Miroslav Tadic and Milan Simic become first 
		Serbs charged w/ war crimes to voluntarily turn themselves
		in to SFOR, US diplomats (charged w/ in ethnic cleansing 
		around Bosanski Samac in >92); 800 members of Croatian 
		Party of Historical Rights (HSP) holds rally in Vukovar, 
		Borovo Naselje, wave Ustashe flags, make Nazi-like salutes,
		sing nationalist songs

Feb. 15 - 	UN criticizes HSP rally of previous day while Vukovar 
		mayor Vladimir Stengl says it is a Aserious disturbance 
		of the peace

Feb. 16 - 	Plavsic fires Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pero Colic, names 
		Gen. Momir Talic as replacement; North Atlantic Council 
		decides to keep pk mission in Bosnia after mandate runs 
		out in June w/ new contingent expected to continue at 
		near same 34,000 troops until general elections in Sept.;
		11 ambassadors monitoring reintegration of E. Sla. say 
		they have noted Athe growing feelings of insecurity in 
		the Serbian community@ since it went back to Croatia, 
		that Croatia has not done much to correct the problem; 
		Tudj. chairs meeting of HDZ, adopts resolution criticizing 
		nationalist rally of Feb. 14 while head of HSP, Anto Djapic
		says it was an Aofficial welcoming@ for Bos. Serb PM 
		Dodik's visit to Zagreb that day; Croatian Def. Min. 
		awards former Lt.-Col. Mile Dedakovic (Jastreb) $60,000
		in damages to end litigation over his imprisonment, 
		beatings which left him an invalid over fall of Vukovar
		(Jastreb had accused Tudj. of abandoning city, failing 
		to send reinforcements) Kos. Committee for Def. of 
		Human Rts. and Freedoms charges that man killed previous
		day was tortured by police for info. about UCK, Serb 
		state-run media contends that he was killed by UCK to
		intimidate Albanians employed by state

Feb. 17 - 	Tadic, Simic plead not guilty to war crimes charges;
		SFOR says fed., Bos. Serb armies have to reduce their 
		arms depots by one-quarter in near future to enable pks 
		to monitor weapons more effectively, that they must also
		display new license plates by 1 May, while Hanns 
		Schumacher of Westendorp=s office says fed. officials 
		charging up to 10X the official price for new license 
		plates; 65,000 metallurgy workers in Croatian, Mus. parts 
		of Bosnia stage 1-hour warning strike, demand govt. live 
		up to promises made previous year; Bos. Roman Catholic 
		Cardinal Vinko Puljic tells Bos. Bishops= conference in 
		Mostar that church must Astrengthen spirit of ecumenism
		in rels. w/ Serbian Orthodox Church, Islamic community,
		calls for concordat w/ Vatican to resolve property, 
		pastoral issues, building new religious buildings, and 
		calls for all refs. to be able to return to their former
		homes w/ full pol., rel., and cultural freedoms;
		Mon. parl. passes new election law; leg. to have 78 
		members elected by proportional representation from among
		all parties getting 3% or more of vote; country to be 
		one electoral district w/ 5 seats reserved for ethnic 
		Albanian minority; Mon. border guards kill 22 year old 
		Albanian who was going to work in Tuzi when shot at by 
		guards from patrol boat; 10,000 attend burial of man 
		killed by police 2 days earlier; police in Klina say 
		UCK attacked police station on Klina-Srbica road previous
		night; Albanian Pres. Rexhep Meidani says Kos. situation
		has become Avery dangerous@, calls for increased presence
		of Euro. institutions to prevent violence

Feb. 18 - 	Yugo. Justice Minister Zoran Knezevic says his govt. 
		will not extradite war crimes suspects to Hague but 
		they may go there voluntarily, that Podgorica is 
		Acompromising its own republic and the federation by 
		coop. w/ Hague; USAID head J. Brian Atwood says US 
		going to unblock $60 mil. aid package for RS PM Dodik 
		who is visiting Wash., but says it wants privatization
		speeded up, suspected war criminals= influence ended,
		and assurance that all local elected offiicals from 
		other ethnic groups allowed to take seats; Council 
		of Ministers to keep reference in new joint passports 
		detailing where holder comes from, although 
		Westerndorp's office disagrees; UN police say 12 homes
		of Serbs burned down so far this month in Croat-held 
		town of Drvar (formerly controlled by Serbs in '92);
		34 bodies found in mass grave in E. Sla. village of
		marinci, probably those of Cro. civilians killed in '91, 
		some by execution; FM Granic tells members of Mon. 
		Croatian community meeting in Zag. that he wants to 
		open consulate in Boka Kotorska, Mon. to promote 
		contacts w/ Mon. Croats, says he wants to open border 
		closed since '91

Feb. 19 - 	Serbian pres. Milan Milutinovic asks PM Mirko Marjanovic
		to form new govt., Draskovic=s Serbian Renewal Movement 
		does not agree w/ appointment since this is position he
		wanted; 7 injured in bomb explosion in cafe in central 
		Belgrade; Croatian trade unions say they will defy 
		police ban and hold demonstration in Zag, Int. Min. Ivan
		Penic says police will enforce ban; OSCE Aconcerned about
		Serbs continuing to leave E. Sla. and that hundreds from 
		region have applied for asylum in W. Eur.;
		Undercover Serb policeman shot in ambush near Pristina; 
		OSCE rep. Max van der Stoel meets w/ Rugova in Pristina, 
		but Adem Demaci refuses to meet w/ him saying that 
		Albanians in Kos. Aare a nation@ not a minority;
		Bomb explodes in Albanian-owned shop in Albanian part of 
		Mac. town of Gostivar (2nd blast in town);
		RS PM Dodik threatens to quit unless promised foreign 
		aid delivered, refers to $6 mil. promised by Westendorp 
		which Dodik says is needed to head off teachers strike

Feb. 20 - 	Rugova says talks w/ Serb govt. have been going on in 
		secret for several days w/ Italian mediator;
		5 police, 4 demonstrators injured in rally of 10,000 
		protestors in Zagreb where police prevent them from 
		holding meeting in main square

Feb. 21 - 	HDZ's convention reelects Tudj. chairman, calls previous
		day's rally Apolitically motivated@, calls protestors 
		Aanti-Croatian lackeys ready to destroy society

Feb. 22 - 	Gelbard appeals to both Serb authorities, Albanian 
		population in Kosovo to show restraint, calls UCK 
		attacks Aterrorist actions; Izet. condemns Tudj. speech
		of previous day saying it called for partition of Bos. 
		along ethnic lines

Feb. 23 - 	Gelbard says US is Aprofoundly angered@ by Tudj. speech,
		that Ahis historical allusions are outrageous, dangerous,
		and ridiculous and that he Aneeds to watch his language;
		Gelbard also says that Milo. has shown Agood will in
		facilitating Dodik's moderate govt. in RS and that US 
		will allow Bel. to open consulate in NY and increase 
		its diplomatic staff at UN, JAT to be allowed to have 
		landing rts. in US, outer wall of sanctions to remain 
		in place until Yugo. makes more progress in promoting 
		democracy, resolving Kos., sending indicted war criminals 
		to Hague; Several thousand pensioners protest outside 
		Serbian parl. for back pensions, improved living 
		conditions; EU for. mins. call for restraint by all 
		parties involved in Kosovo; Serbian Int. Min. reports 
		that it has arrested Nenad Djordjevic, wealthy ally of 
		Mirjana Markovic and dep. chairman of United Yugoslav 	
		Left Party, on charges of embezzling $10 mil. from 
		Serbian Health Insurance Service

Feb. 24 - 	Bos. Serb war crimes suspect Simo Zaric, 49, surrenders
		to SFOR troops in Samac on charges that he deported 
		hundreds of Croat, Muslim residents from Bosanski Samac,
		says he surrendered due to enormous pressure on himself 
		and his family and to defend the Serb people; also 
		declares his innocence (has a Muslim wife); Westendorp 
		says Tudj., FM Granic agree to help remove Pero Raguz, 
		mayor of Herzegovinian town of Stolac due to his support 
		of attacks on returning Muslims, but Granic also says 
		Tudj. claims problems are Alegacy of history@ not that 
		of individuals and problems should be addressed to 
		Croats in that area, not Zagreb; Westendorp, Dodik 
		sign agreement in BL allocating $8.5 mil. in EU aid to 
		RS for salaries of teachers, police, customs officials, 
		and pensions; Mus-Croat fed. govt. approves draft law 
		to be sent to parl. giving refs. 6 months to return to 
		their homes, repeals war-time law confiscating flats of 
		those who fled their homes after April '91;
		Croatian Serb leaders Pupovac, Stanimirovic and Vojnovic
		say they will quit joint bodies for promoting integration
		unless Serbs stop fleeing E. Sla. and provocations against
		Serbs cease; Taxi drivers block roads in and around 
		Belgrade demanding lower taxes, higher fares;
		Mon. Pres. Djukanovic says Kos. must receive a Acertain
		degree of autonomy, calls for dialogue;

Feb. 25 - 	Rugova re-nominated for pres. of LDK, Bel. refuses 
		permission to Alb. PM Fatos Nano, delegation to travel 
		to LDK convention; Contact Group critical of Tudj. 
		speech questioning terr. integrity of Bos., also state 
		Kos. situation calls for dialogue between Serbia, 
		Kosovars, also state that govt. of Plavsic, Dodik on 
		its way to Abecoming a model of pluralist dem. and 
		democratic standards; Westendorp gives Tudj. one week
		to fire mayor of Herzegovinian town of Stolac, or face
		loss of political credibility, spokesman says this is 
		Tudj's Alast chance@ to prove he supports Dayton, but 
		HDZ rejects criticism

Feb. 26 - 	Bos. UN amb. Sacirbey writes to Sec. Coun. that 50 
		survivors of Srebrenica may be secretly held in prison 
		in Sremska Mitrovica in isolation; Simo Zaric, indicted 
		war criminal before Hague pleads not guilty; 30 freight 
		truck convoy goes from Tuzla to Croatian port of Ploce;
		HDZ spokesman says "tone and manner in which Mr. Gelbard
		spoke about a president of a sovereign nation is out of 
		proportion and unacceptable...a civil servant--albeit of 
		the United States--has no right in slapping the wrists of
		a president of a sovereign nation in that manner" says it 
		is outrageous that Gelbard had made his comments without 
		having first read transcript of Tudj. remarks;
		Commander of Pristina region, Maj.-Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic,
		says there is no build-up in Kosovo, criticizes unnamed 
		foreigners for encouraging Kos. secession; Yugo. DM 
		Pavle Bulatovic denies opp. reports of mobilization; 
		OSCE says Zagreb must take action to stop exodus of 
		25-30 Serbs daily from E. Sla. due to incidents of 
		Croatian nationalists and returning refugees who are 
		intimidating Serbs; Mon. announces that it will form 
		its own news agency independent of TANJUG

Feb. 27 - 	Yugo. For. Min. denies Bos. govt. charges that 
		Srebrenica survivors being held in Serbian prison

Feb. 28 - 	Masked gunmen ambush, kill 2 Serb policemen in car 
		heading for center housing Serb refugees which had 
		been attacked previous day by unknown assailants;
		Dodik says RS Ais currently the [intl.] favorite in 
		the Dayton peace process@, says Serbs future is with 
		middle path between extreme nationalism and total 
		acceptance of what intl. community wants

March 1 - 	24 killed, including 4 Serb police and 20 Kosovars as 
		Serbian Interior Ministry troops attack remote village 
		of Cirez in Srbica-Glogovac-Drenica region of Kosovo, 
		police seal off 10 villages, firing on them with 
		artillery, helicopter gunships; Milo. sends messages 
		to families of dead policemen, Serbian Pres. Milan 
		Milutinovic saying terrorism fomented by outside 
		sources will only harm the situation internally; 
		3,000 women demonstrate in front of US Information 
		Center in Pristina calling for freedom, peace and not 
		war; Rugova's govt. calls on those in Drenica area to 
		Astay calm, appeals to US, EU to pressure Belgrade

March 2 - 	Police use water cannons, tear gas to disperse tens 
		of thousands of ethnic Albanians demonstrating in 
		Pristina; 289 ethnic Albanians reported injured as 
		police beat everyone including the elderly while some 
		youths threw stones at police; Fed. Int. Min. says 
		situation under control; US State Dept. Aappalled 
		by violence, urges Aunconditional dialogue@ but warns 
		that it may reconsider lifting of sanctions; EU 
		condemns violence Aunreservedly; Rus. Foreign 
		Ministry denounces terrorist attacks, calls for 
		refraining from using force; Macedonian parl. speaker 
		says if Kosovo becomes armed conflict it will spread 
		beyond its borders and threaten entire region

March 3 - 	40,000 attend funerals in Cirez and Likosane of 
		ethnic Albanians killed in week=s violence, foreign 
		journalists barred by police; policemen killed in 
		violence buried w/ full honors in Belgrade; Gelbard 
		tells Milo. in phone conversation to avoid violence, 
		says to Albanians to avoid terrorists and violence and
		solve problem through dialogue w/ Serbs, don=t expect 
		Aany rescue from outside@; EU Commissioner for External
		Relations says Albanians should have autonomy returned 
		to them while Yugo. Def. Min. Pavle Bulatovic blame 
		terrorism on support from Acertain section of the 
		international community;  RS PM Dodik says he hopes 
		Mladen Ivanic will replace Kraj. as Serb rep. on 
		collective presidency; Mon. ct. sentences supporter 
		of Bulatovic to 4 months in jail for inciting violence 
		in Jan. demonstrations; Yugo. Fed. Parl. ratifies 
		agreement to give Bos. citizens Yugo. citizenship

March 4 - 	UCK issues statement saying it will seek Amultiple 
		vengeance for the innocent deaths of 30 ethnic 
		Albanians killed over previous weekend, says it has 
		captured large amount of mil. hardware including a 
		police helicopter; gunmen fire on police station in 
		Pristina after UCK calls for revenge against police 
		killings; Dem. League of Kosovo (LDK) calls for NATO 
		to send troops, UN Sec. Coun. to take urgent measures 
		and Fehmet Agani comments that Kosovar, Milo. positions 
		Aso far apart that no dialogue is possible without the 
		mediation of a third party@; UNHCR says from Belgrade 
		that it has learned Croatian Serb refs. living in Kos. 
		being called up for military service and that intl. 
		law stipulates that refs Amust not be called up for 
		mil. service in the country that offered them asylum;
		Gelbard says US Awon=t brook any renewal of violence 
		and yes, I do put the overwhelming onus on the 
		govt....the eco. situation in...Yugo. is dismal...the 
		situation can become an awful lot worse and we can make
		it worse; Bos. Serb war crimes suspect Dragoljub Kunarac,
		wanted for systematic rape, psychological and physical 
		cruelty toward Mus. women, surrenders himself to SFOR in 
		Foca, sent on the Hague

March 5 - 	LDK says Astrong Serbian police forces fire on 
		Albanian villages near Srbica, police set up 
		checkpoints on main road between Kosovska 
		Mitrovica and Srbica; Bri. FM Cook arrives in 
		Bel. for talks w/ Milo. and to urge pol. solution 
		but leaves without any concessions; US State Dept. 
		says it has withdrawn package of concessions recently 
		made to Milo. for his support of moderate Bos. leaders,
		Pentagon says it has no concrete plans to increase 
		force of 250 who are part of UN pk force in Mac.; Mon. 
		govt. says Ait is necessary to est. a dialogue urgently
		to solve the Kos. problem...Terrorism and the use of 
		force by the state do not lead toward a solution
		WCT commutes from 10 to 5 years sentence given to 
		Drazen Erdemovic, Bos. Croat who served w/ Serb forces 
		at Srebrenica saying he had been forced into killing 
		Muslims and that he showed remorse; Westendorp fires 
		Pero Raguz, Croatian mayor of Stolac after he refused 
		to let Mus. refs. return to their homes and after being
		warned by Westendorp to do so


March 6 - 	Yugo. State Prosecutor's Office warns that 
		unspecified actions will be taken against ind. 
		newspapers, radio, TV stations which have 
		"encouraged the actions of terrorist bands in Kosovo";
		Mac. Pres. Gligorov says army general starff has been 
		told to prepare for refs. from Kos., to assist them 
		in staying temporarily or being in transit; 20,000 
		Albanians demonstrate in Skopje in solidarity w/ 
		Kosovo; Hundreds of ethnic Albanian women and children
		fleeing violence in Drenica area after Serb police 
		attack Prekaz, other villages looking for UCK 
		supporters, kill local man Adem Jashari, who they 
		suspect of being UCK leader; Serbs use heavy artillery
		helicopter gunships, armored vehicles; 50 deaths 
		reported; Several hundred Albanian women hold protest
		demonstration in front of US cultural center in 
		Pristina; Serbian Int. Min. says it is carrying out 
		action to Acleanse the region of Albanian terrorists

March 7 - 	Bel. daily Vreme reports that Serb police loot 
		homes in Drenica area after attacks; Albright 
		says US holds Milo. "personally responsible" 
		for what happens in Kos. and "will not tolerate violence"

March 8 - 	Thousands of ethnic Albanian women hold silent protest
		in Pristina to mark International Women's Day; some 
		say they had fled Dresnica area where Serbian police 
		had fired on women and children; Serb police 
		spokesman takes foreign reporters, diplomats on tour 
		of Prekaz area, claims sec. forces have destroyed 
		power base of UCK, Interior Ministry says attack on 
		Prekaz was directed against Jashari clan who are 
		supposedly at core of UCK; More police attacks in 
		Drenica area (w. of Pristina) including on villages 
		of Josanica, Ovcarevo, and Broja with tanks, other 
		armored vehicles; Bujar Bukoshi, Rugova's PM tells 
		Feral Tribune that "no kind of autonomoy is acceptable"
		for Kosovo, that Albanians "can no longer tolerate 
		being under Serbia or with Serbia"; Turkish President
		Demirel sends letter to Milo. urging that Kosovo 
		situation not be allowed to disintegrate further, 
		Milo. rejects this as "interference"; Albright, Ger. 
		FM Kinkel, discuss extending pk mandate in Mac., 
		sending pks to Albania, recommend allowing Hague 
		WCT to investigate atrocities in Kov., sending 
		Felipe Gonzales to Yugo. as mediator; French Pres. 
		Chirac tells Albright "only a message of great 
		firmness, addressed firstly to the auth. in 
		Bel....can break this spiral of war and lead to a 
		durable peace for all in Kos."; Mon. PMVujanovic 
		says Kos. will remain part of Yugo.but that it 
		requires peaceful solution; 3,500 ethnic Muslim 
		refs. have arrived in Sandzak from Kos.

March 9 - 	Estimated 40,000 ethnic Albanians hold peaceful 
		protest march in Pristina against "Serbian terror
		and violence", other marches throughout Kosovo; 
		police turn over bodies of 62 killed in attacks 
		including 14 women and 12 children to local Kosovar
		authorities, Kosovars calls for ind. autopsy, say 
		govt. wanted immediate burials to cover up an 
		Aatrocity; Serb authorities say they will bury 
		dead in mass grave by next day if families do 
		not claim them in afternoon; Contact Group 
		agrees to embargo on Yugo. arms sales, other 
		equipment that could be used in repression, all 
		but Russia agree to deny visas to Serb officials 
		responsible for police violence in Kos. and to 
		impose moratorium on credit for govt.-financed 
		exports to Yugo.; Rus. also does not agree to 
		freezing of Yugo. assets if Milo. won=t hold talks
		with Kosovars within 10 days; Gelbard meets w/ 
		Milo., goes on to Pristina; Oslobodjenje reports 
		5 busloads of Avolunteers@ (demilitarized Bos. 
		Serb soldiers)  leave Doboj for Kos. where they 
		will receive $500 a month



March 10 - 	Serb police bury 51 ethnic Albanians in Donji 
		Prekaz whom they call "terrorists" after relatives 
		refuse to claim bodies, insist for intl. forensic 
		examinations which police refuse; Serbian govt. 
		issues statement saying they will "hold an open 
		dialogue" with "responsible representatives" of 
		Kosovars with talks based on Serbian constitution; 
		Mon. Pres. Djukanovic calls for dialogue as Kos. 
		is intl. problem; US envoy Robert Gelbard in 
		Pristina calls Serb actions "brutal, 
		disproportionate, and overwhelming force" but also 
		says "future of Kos. lies within Yugo.", calls on all 
		sides to refrain from using violence; China blocks 
		Sec.Council statement on Kosovo calling it an 
		internal affair; Milo's office issues statement 
		condemning Contact Group decision as interference 
		in Bel's internal affairs; Rus. FM Primakov says 
		sanctions "counterproductive", calls instead for 
		focusing on terrorists and avoiding massive use 
		of force; RS Pres. Plavsic says Kos. problem can 
		be solved through democratization in Serbia; 
		Russian Pres. Yeltsin says ARus. cannot get 
		drawn into a new [military] campaign, this time
		in Kosovo

March 11 - 	Serbian govt. says it won=t negotiate after Rugova
		says Aformer Yugo. has ceased to exist...an ind. 
		Kosovo is a good thing for Serbia@, to which 
		Serbian Info. Min. Radmila Milentijevic replies 
		Athis position is unfortunate because it does 
		not offer the possibility of negotiations@; Within 
		hours Serbian govt. reverses itself, announces it 
		will send 4 man team to Pristina led by Dep. PM 
		Ratko Markovic with Aopen invitation for...talks, 
		but Fehmi Agani of Dem. League of Kos. says Milo. 
		offer "not serious", calls Serb authorities 
		"arrogant" after they praise Serb police; Rugova 
		calls for ind. Kos., not autonomy; US State Dept. 
		says it does not want to see more ethnic cleansing 
		in Kos., says Milo's actions suggests he has something 
		to hide in Kos.; Pres. Clinton calls for sanctions 
		to stop the situation before it gets worse; 
		Red Cross, Red Crescent officials in Pristina 
		recalled to Bel. after receiving death threats; 
		Albanians in Prekaz exhume their dead, rebury 
		them according to Islamic custom, still call 
		for intl. experts to examine victims; NATO 
		Sec.-Gen. Solana says NATO ambs. turn down 
		Albanian request for pks along border saying 
		it is too early for them

March 12 - 	Fre. Pres. Chirac calls on Yeltsin to intercede with 
		Belgrade, Fre. PM Jospin calls on intl. community to 
		stand by Albanians of Kosovo; Serb. Dep. PM Ratko 
		Markovic to hold "open dialogue" w/ Albanian reps. 
		in Pristina; Agani says no Kos. leader has received 
		an invitation to talks, that Bel. offer is not serious;
		Plavsic says she will run for reelection in next 
		elections, regrets that Kraj. "has broken off all 
		contact" w/ her and her staff

March 13 - 	US Sec. of State Albright says US to give $1 million 
		to support Hague investigations into recent Kosovo 
		crackdowns;  UN appoints former Czechoslovak FM Jiri 
		Dienstbier to investigate human rights abuses in former 
		Yugo. succeeding Elisabeth Rehn who is now Annan's 
		special rep. for Bos.

March 14 - 	Albania says it would support NATO involvement in 
		Kosovo by providing airport facilities; Mac. Pres. 
		Gligorov says maintaining US presence in Mac. best 
		way to preserve security there, suggests UN contingent 
		be replaced by purely US force when UN mandate runs out 
		in Aug.

March 15 - 	US envoy Roberts Owen says he won=t decide on Brcko's 
		future until after Bos. general elections in Sept. 
		and beginning of 1999, says delay will give new Bos. 
		Serb leadership opportunity to move ahead w/ reforms 
		(3rd postponement); Ganic calls this Ajustice delayed 
		is justice denied@, while Plavsic, Dodik say this 
		reflects intl. confidence in RS leadership; Kraj. 
		calls for their resignation

March 16 - 	Riot police block march by Kosovar women from 
		Pristina to Drenica; all Roman Catholic churches in 
		Kosovo hold memorial masses for Muslims killed in 
		recent violence; Ger. FM Kinkel says he wants 
		withdrawal of Serbian special police from Kos. and 
		an end to operations against Albanian civilian 
		population but that it is unnecessary to send more 
		troops to region and that Rus., China would not allow 
		it; US Dep. Sec. of State Talbott calls Yugo. gov't. 
		offer of conditional talks Acynical@; State Dept. 
		spokesman says Contact Group considering new 
		sanctions against Belgrade; Albright tells Primakov 
		that there are no differences among members of Contact 
		Group on this issue; Ger. FM Kinkel says Albanians 
		should start talks even if all demands are not met, 
		that intl. community will not support otherwise; 
		Turkey makes proposal for ending violence, says 
		crisis may expand into Balkan-wide problem without 
		compromise

March 17 - 	Belgrade claims there to have been grenade attack 
		on policeman in Pec previous day, although there is 
		no ind. confirmation of this; Kosovar opp. groups call 
		for postponing elections for shadow govt. calling it 
		Aamoral@ to do so under current circumstances; Primakov 
		meets w/ Milo. who tells him that Kos. is internal 
		affair, that there is no reason for Albanian side not 
		to show up for talks; Primakov expresses support for 
		Yugo. sovereignty, terr. integrity, and determination 
		to resolve crisis by political means, but Mon. Pres. 
		Djukanovic meets w/ Primakov to calls for Aadditional 
		pressure for the start of a dialogue; Kosovars continue 
		to refuse to hold talks without intl. mediator; students, 
		Mus. Party of Dem. Action of Kos. calls for postponement
		of simultaneous pres., parl. elections at this time;
		Talbott says no immediate need for either more US or 
		NATO troops, diplomacy should be given a chance in 
		Kosovo, that Kos. crisis could escalate into full-
		scale war worse than that in Bos.

March 18 - 	40,000 Kosovars demonstrate in Pristina against 
		Serbian govt. prior to visit by US envoy Robert 
		Gelbard, no police present; Serbian Pres. Milutinovic. 
		calls for immediate and unconditional start of talks 
		to address issue of  Aself rule@ for Kosovo within 
		Serbia representing reversal of positions, says 
		problems only solved through dialogue; Gelbard says 
		Rugova ready for talks w/ Belgrade; 1 Kosovar man 
		killed, 5 wounded in clash w/ police in Pec, Kos. 
		Info. Sec. denies there was any intervention anywhere 
		in province; UCK calls for postponement of dual 
		elections, says it will carry out Aliberation war 
		by attacking the enemy in various parts of Kos.
		Izet. says he is not entirely dissatisfied w/ Owens 
		decision on Brcko, that it allows for return of Muslims
		and Croats to Brcko, a multi-national auth. and police 
		force, removal of war criminals from town, and creation
		of free-trade zone, that Dodik will not be able to 
		comply and Brcko will be either part of Croat-Muslim 
		Fed. or become a state district; Aleksa Buha 
		(chair of SDS) says postponing Brcko decision harms 
		RS, calls for Plavsic, Dodik to resign; Ger. 
		FM Kinkel, French FM Vedrine in Zag. say that if 
		Croatia implements Dayton accords, allows return 
		of refugees it can count on their support for 
		developing ties w/ Europe, meet w/ Granic, Tudj.; 
		Granic says Croatia being put under Aunjust and 
		unfair pressure@ by intl. community

March 19 - 	On last day of Contact Group deadline Milo. 
		agrees to pull back special police in Kosovo to 
		avoid intl. sanctions; UN Sec. Coun. apparently 
		agrees to delay action on sanctions until after 
		Contact Group meets; Ger., Fre. Fms announce 
		agreement after meeting w/ Milo., but Gelbard in 
		Mac. says agreement "falls quite short of what we 
		feel is necessary" to start a dialogue, threatens 
		sanctions if police aren=t withdrawn, dialogue begun, 
		says Milo. does not appreciate how serious the 
		situation is; Rus. For. Ministry calls on Kosovar 
		leadership to accept offer of talks 25,000 Albanians 
		hold rally in Pristina protesting Serb terror, 
		repression, but event erupts into brawls w/ Serbs 
		who several hours later hold biggest protest yet in 
		Kos. w/ 30,000 chanting "Kosovo is Serbia"; 10,000 
		attend funeral of man killed in Pec; Ger., Fre Fms 
		say there was progress but no breakthroughs in their 
		talks w/ Milo., Milutinovic; Rugova aide says Milo. 
		offer of talks is a Afarce@; Kos. Dem. League (LDK) 
		calls for large turnout for elections of pres., 130 
		member parl. (Rugova only candidate) SDS, Serbian 
		Radical Party in Srebrenica accept intl. arbitration 
		ruling on distribution of positions in city w/ 
		municipal assembly to consist of 20 Serbs, 25 
		Muslims, Muslims holding assembly president 
		position; Primakov visits w/ collective 
		presidency, says Rus. to grant full cooperation 
		and reconstruction aid, says Rus. supports intl. 
		military presence and will participate if mandate 
		extended; Mon. parl. deputies agree to shorten 
		terms of office so Djukanovic can have early 
		elections, also decide to increase number of 
		deputies from 71 to 78; FRY applies to join 
		Council of Europe

March 21 - 	Serbian auth. arrest 6 US humanitarian aid workers, 
		give them 10 days in jail for not having residency 
		permits for Kosovo; Tudj. discusses plan for 
		demilitarization of Bos. w/ Herzegovinian Croat 
		leaders in Zag., Bos. amb. to UN, Muhamed Sacirbey 
		says proposal would leave Muslims defenseless, 
		that Her. Croats still want to join Croatia;
		Supporters of Bulatovic form Socialist People's 
		Party of Mon. in Podgorica meeting, Djukanovic 
		says this serves interests of Milo. in Mon. politics

March 22 - 	80% of registered voters in Kos. vote in elections, 
		votes to be held still in Srbica, Klina, Glogovac 
		districts, Serbian govt. declares vote illegal, 
		try to confiscate ballots and boxes; US denies 
		charges against aid workers, says this violates 
		Contact Group conditions for Yugo. to rejoin intl. 
		institutions; Bos. Serb parl. in BL issues statement 
		rejecting efforts at internationalization of Kos. issue;
		Mus.-Croat. Fed. police arrest Milomir Tepes on 
		charges of war crimes in E. Bos. while Serbian 
		police arrest head of Sarajevogas Co. head Mirsad 
		Hasanovic in Sid; UN says it has not received any 
		info. on where he is

March 23 - 	Rugova proclaimed re-elected w/ 90% support; 
		Serbian Min. without Portfolio Ratomir Vico and 
		Rugova advisor Fehmi Agani sign agreement restoring 
		Albanian language educ. in govt. school buildings 
		all to be working by end of June; Serbian students 
		union in Kos. calls agreement "betrayal of [Serbian 
		interests in] Kos. and a blow to the sovereignty of 
		Serbia", rector at Pristina Univ., Radovan Popovic, 
		calls agreement "the collapse of the Serbian state", 
		says only Serbian will be taught at university; 
		Serbia expels 6 US non-govtal. monitors who were 
		arrested 2 days previous; EU tells Croatian FM Granic 
		that it is dissatisfied w/ Croatian attitudes toward 
		the EU due to Tudj.'s refusal to meet w/ EU delegation, 
		demand that Tudj. meet w/ their reps. in the near future

March 24 - 	Sara. Prosecutor-General's office says 28-year old 
		Dragan Pejic, former soldier in Bos. Serb army, 
		arrested on suspicion of war crimes; Serbian special 
		police attack 4 villages n. of Djakovica w/ mortars, 
		armored vehicles, helicopter gunships in response to 
		"terrorist" ambush of police patrol, UN Human Rights 
		Commission condemns violence, calls for its halt, but 
		also calls on Kosovar leaders "to make clear their 
		total rejection of terrorism"; US Sec. of State 
		Albright says Bel. ignoring Contact Group's key demands, 
		that Serbian police are not pulling back as Contact 
		Group had called for, that intl. community "will need 
		to maintain credible pressure on Bel."; Rugova names 
		15 to negotiating team w/ Bel. auth. if Bel. agrees 
		to unconditional talks; Serb. parl. approves 35-member 
		govt. to include Seselj as dep. prime minister while 
		PM Marjanovic says priorities include "preserving Kos. 
		as an inseparable part of Serbia"; Martin Garrod, intl. 
		community rep. in Mostar rejects Tudj. suggestion of 
		demilitarized Bosnia, that this would have to include 
		both Serbia and Croatia to be effective;
		Croatian Social Democratic leader Ivica Racan criticizes 
		Tudj. rejection of western criticism on Croatian 
		implementation of democracy; Slovenia pulls its 
		permanent mission to Brussels negotiations on splitting 
		up assets of Yugo. saying that Serbia has obstructed 
		talks, For. Min. to assume direct responsibility for 
		Slovenia

March 25 - 	Serb police still in Drenica region despite Contact 
		Group pressure for them to withdraw, fire heavy weapons 
		into Kosovar villages in Decani, Djakovica regions, 
		journalists not allowed into area, wounded reported 
		to be brought to hospitals in Pristina, Pec; Rugova 
		govt. spokesman says Serb goal is ethnic cleansing 
		of area with refs. fleeing to Macedonia instead of 
		to Albania; Contact Group agrees to give Milo. 4 more 
		weeks to meet demands including withdrawal of troops, 
		Rus. opposed US efforts at immediatte arms embargo, eco. 
		sanctions while Ger., Fre., Ita. diplomats argue that 
		they should offer Milo. positive incentives not just 
		punitive ones; Albright warns that Milo. is stalling 
		for time so intl. community will lose interest; Albanian 
		Def. Min. Sabit Brokaj rejects Serbian Int. Ministry 
		charges that armed bands crossing over into Kos. to 
		attack Serbian police
 
March 26 - 	Alb. FM Paskal Milo calls on Contact Group to take 
		tougher measures against Yugo., says that Milo. is 
		trying to provoke the situation in Kos.; Russian For. 
		Min. says that Moscow considers latest Contact Group 
		document a "balanced reasonable decision...for the 
		time being"; US Sec. of Def. Cohen says that Rus. sales 
		of weapons to Yugo. would be "counterproductive" and 
		barred under Dayton; Mon. parl. delegation in Wash. 
		says Kos. is historically Serbian and should remain so;
		Westendorp spokesman says Croatia has not lived up to 
		agreement to allow ethnic Serbs to visit their former 
		homes in Croatia, but Croatian PM Matesa says intl. 
		community has not done enough to assist ethnic Croat 
		refugees to return hom in E. Sla., says different 
		criteria are being used; Croatian court sentences 
		journalist, editor of Globus to jail for 2, 4 months 
		respectively for slander

March 27 - 	Milo. refuses to meet w/ Gelbard, but does w/ 
		Polish FM and OSCE rotating chairman Bronislaw 
		Geremek who says he is Adisappointed that...Yugo's 
		position is still unchanged@ (Yugo. won't accept 
		outside intervention); Geremek then flies to Pristina 
		to negotiate w/ Kosovar leaders, while Gelbard warns 
		Milo. aides that time is running out on avoiding for. 
		sanctions or preventing war in Kos.; 5,000 ethnic 
		Albanians attend funeral of 2 male cousins killed 
		by police during 11-hour gun battle w/ police near 
		Albanian border; NATO announces it will send 8 teams 
		of border monitoring experts to Alb. over next 2 months 
		after Alb. govt. requests this; each group consists 
		of 7 including civilian and military personnel; 
		NATO to consider additional measures to help Alb. 
		but rules out sending ground troops for border patrol

March 28 - 	Bulgarian For. Min. warns that Kos. situation could 
		lead to problems in neighboring countries

March 29 - 	3rd ethnic Albanian dies from wounds from Djakovica-
		Decani area fighting in previous week, Yugo. border 
		guards near Gorozup kill Albanian man who had crossed 
		over border w/ 3 others; OSCE opens office in Bajram 
		Curri, Albania near border where police have launched 
		crackdown; Yugo. Inf. Min. says VOA, CNN, BBC, others 
		"massacred the truth in Kos." by reporting on Serb 
		repression, says those local stations which broadcast 
		these sources are guilty of "subversion";
		Mon. PM Vujanovic says Milo. has been rude and 
		politically unwise in refusing meeting w/ Gelbard;
		Gelbard in Vukovar tells Croatia that it must enable 
		return of Serbs safely if intl. comm. is to continue 
		to give aid; Serb leaders Milorad Pupovac, Vladimir 
		Stanimirovic to withdraw from joint commission if 
		Tudj. does not do more to enable returns

March 30 - 	UCK spokesman says peaceful solution to situation 
		possible if Serb troops withdraw immediately from 
		Kos.; Rus. opposed to British-sponsored UN 
		resolution reimposing arms emb. on Yugo., China 
		also opposes sanctions; Cro. Dep. PM Ljerka Mintas-
		Hodak says those countries who want to expedite return 
		of Serb refs. to Croatia should help pay for it, that 
		it is unfair for donor countries to make aid dependent 
		on successful return of refs., calls for aid being 
		given outright before returns completed;
		Croatian FM Granic, Bos. FM Jadranko Prlic 
		(ethnic Croat) sign agreement in Zag. 
		institutionalizing frequent, regular contacts 
		between their leaders, Cro. pres., members of 
		joint Bos. pres. to meet at least twice a year; 
		Izet. adviser says agreement lacks substance; 
		RS PM Dodik, fed. counterpart Dehem Bicakcic meet 
		in Doboj, agree to form joint corp. for restored 
		unified rail system; OSCE mandates that all parties, 
		candidates participating in Sept. elections must 
		submit in advance program stating party's or 
		candidate's views including ref. return, eco. 
		reconstruction, minority rights, social issues; 
		parties must pay deposit of $550, candidates half 
		of this figure

March 31 - 	UN Sec. Coun. votes 14-0-1 (China abstains) to place 
		arms emb. on Yugo. until Milo. begins unconditional 
		talks w/ Kosovar reps., calls also on Kosovar leadership 
		to condemn all terrorist action; Mon. Pres. Djukanovic 
		calls for intl. assistance in Kos.; Greece calls Kos. 
		Euro. problem, calls US approach "the language of 
		force"; Reuters reports that armed and uniformed 
		UCK members now being found fairly easily in areas 
		of conflict; Yugo. govt., on advice of Central Bank, 
		decides to devalue dinar from 3.3 to 6 to the German 
		mark; Gelbard says Serb auth. are to blame for 
		publicity given to UCK lately, that Serb tactics 
		have drawn attention to the org.; Croatian govt. agrees 
		on measures to help return refs. to former homes in 
		Croatia w/ diplomats now to issue travel documents 
		to refs. to allow them to come home;
		Intl. police say 9 homes of Muslims were mined, 
		destroyed, burned down between 26 and 28 March in 
		Croatian-controlled Stolac (where mayor was 
		recently fired); Mon. to allow Bos. to use port 
		of Bar


April 1 - 	Mon. parl. passes resolution charging Bulatovic 
		w/ staging a coup earlier this year, that Milo. 
		gave full assistance and support to demonstrators; 
		Mon. govt. also says it did not agree to previous 
		day's devaluation, calls it Aunacceptable fait accompli;
		Bos. RS PM Dodik says his govt. will replace the 
		Yugo. dinar as legal tender w/ Ger. mark to prevent 
		inflation coming in from Serbia Yugo. For. Min. 
		says UN arms embargo Abaseless and unacceptable@, 
		repeats that Kos. is internal affair causes by 
		AAlbanian terrorists and separatists@; Rus. For. 
		Min. says it voted for embargo as Aa preventive 
		measure@, not to punish Belgrade Kosovar spokesman 
		Fehmi Agani says he wants Yugo. authorities, not 
		just Serbs to be at talks on Kos.; OSCE calls 
		Croatian govt. program for reintegration of refs. 
		flawed, says it cannot be made dependent on other 
		conditions, while Yugo. govt. calls on Cro. Parl. 
		Speaker Vlatko Pavletic to help Belgrade get into 
		Council of Europe; Pavletic says this depends on 
		internal developments in Serbia, criticizes 
		Agrowing Seseljjization of political life

April 2 - 	Albright says Kos. Acaught up in a vicious cycle, 
		says escalating violence Aroad back to Hell which 
		could lead to full-flegded war; Milo. sends letter 
		to Serb leaders asking them to call referendum on 
		question Ado you accept the participation of foreign 
		reps. in the resolution of the problems in Kos.?@, Kos. 
		leaders say they will call for boycott of referendum;
		400 French, Italian SFOR troops w/ 15 tanks, 80 other 
		mil. vehicles occupy Pale as part of routine inspection 
		to monitor illegal weapons (nothing seized), although 
		local and foreign observers say this was probably 
		effort to intimidate Kara.

April 3 - 	Solana rejects notion of referendum, calls it Aa 
		maneuver to waste time and increase a risk of conflict
		while EU, NATO, Kosovar leadership and US all reject 
		offer as delaying tactic; Djukanovic says Milo. policy 
		that of staying in power at any price and that "Kosova 
		is a democratic, not a territorial issue"; Serb police 
		bringing heavy guns into Drenica region where previous 
		fighting took place, while local Kosovars say no intl. 
		aid has reached region in month, food must be smuggled 
		through Serb lines at night; Croatian police arrest 3 
		Serbs in Vukovar for crimes committed during 1991; Feral 
		Tribune says govt. carrying out ongoing campaign to 
		liquidate it financially and physically through 
		state-run TV and HDZ-controlled media

April 4 - 	Serb. auth. return first high school in Kos. to 
		Albanians; Serb leaders in Croatia denounce previous 
		day's arrests of 3 Serbs in Vukovar

April 6 - 	US Sec. of Def. says US pks to remain in Mac. 
		after expiration of mandate on 31 August in order 
		to maintain stability in Kos; Human Rights Watch 
		says Mac. police regularly indulge in illegal behavior, 
		particularly against minorities, and that intl. 
		community turns a blind eye to this to maintain the 
		country's stability; Serbian parl. passes law to call 
		for referendum within 15 days time should Milo. 
		choose to use it; 6 ethnic Albanians' bodies discovered
		60 km. sw of Pristina, possibly having been kidnapped 
		by anti-govt. forces; Buses, trucks, vans loaded w/ 
		Serbian special police troops arrive in Kos from Serbia 
		while police reinforcements, tanks, and armored vehicles 
		arrive in Skenderaj and Fushe-Kosova areas; Serb 
		artillery shells village of Kopiliq (n. Skenderaj) 
		wounding 2; Bos. Mus-Croat fed. pres. Ejup Ganic says 
		western leaders come to Sara. for "therapy" for themselves, 
		says France "did not do much for Bos. before the Dayton 
		agreement" and "witnessed the genocide" during the war; 
		OSCE announces temporary govt. for Srebrenica consisting 
		of 4 Muslims, 4 Serbs and OSCE chairman of that body;
		New nationwide ind. daily, Jutarnji List begins 
		publishing in Croatia (Globus invested $7.5 mil. 
		in it, planned circulation of 200,000)

April 7 - 	Serb parl. votes 193-4 to approve Milo plan for 
		referendum on 23 April, Seselj says this will give 
		Serbs opportunity to reject Aplan from hell for the 
		breakup and destruction of Serbia and the Serbian 
		people; Ger. FM Kinkel calls referendum plan Aan 
		evasion maneuver@; Rus. For. Min. denies it is 
		supplying weapons to Yugo. although Rus. paper 
		contends that spare parts still arriving in Mon.; 
		Primakov says Rus. absolutely opposed to separation 
		of Kos. from Serbia or sending for. troops to region
		Chirac meets w/ members of Bos. joint presidency,
		calls for coop. among them, and says Fra. to aid 
		in reconstruction of Mostar bridge; Kara. home 
		in Pale no longer has guards posted there and 
		rumors persist that he is in Rus., although Rus. 
		For. Min. denies this;
		HDZ in Zagreb city govt.  says it will propose 
		banning demonstrations at street intersections, 
		public squares including Jelacic Square which 
		opposition likes to use

April 8 - 	SFOR troops arrest Bos. Serb war crimes suspects 
		Miroslav Kvocka and Mladen Radic in Prijedor, both 
		were responsible for running notorious Omarska prison 
		camp; Westendorp, others suspect that Kara. "may 
		have...left Pale temporarily", or sought refuge in 
		Russia, UN envoy to Bos., Elisabeth Rehn, says she 
		thinks Kara. may be in the Hague Aquite soon@; US 
		emb. in Sara. says US govt. to send $5 million to 
		BL govt. to help cover costs of teachers' salaries, 
		doctors, others; RL Min. for Refugees Miladin 
		Dragicevic says in Ger. his govt. will allow all 
		refs. to return home if it receives financial 
		assistance from abroad to prepare for returns; 
		UN mission head in Bos., Elisabeth Rehn says Kos. 
		Serbs now fleeing to Bos.; Plavsic, Dodik, Mon. 
		Parl. Speaker Svetozar Marovic issue joint 
		statement calling for Areason, intellect, and 
		dialogue@, while Djukanovic calls for wide 
		autonomy for Kos. and democratization of region 
		but that Kos. should not be made a full republic 
		within the federation; Serb forces fire weapons in 
		village of Llausha (near Skenderaj), reported to be 
		building military emplacements at Bernica e Poshtme, 
		other villages north of Pristina; Serbs in Decan 
		area say masked, armed ethnic Albanians now patrolling 
		area in small groups, Serb villagers maintaining armed 
		patrols at night; UN says Croatian police have taken 
		part in at least 5 incidents of intimidating local 
		Serbs in E. Sla. over past week alone w/ Croatian 
		police in civilian clothes acting part of secret police

April 9 - 	Kvocka, Radic arrive in Hague; Kraj. calls their 
		arrest "a blow to peace", warns that seizure of 
		Serbs might lead to "uncontrolled resistance by all 
		Serbs"; Le Monde reports Kara. US lawyers bargaining 
		w/ Hague on conditions under which he might appear at 
		Hague to face charges; 30,000 Kosovars demonstrate in 
		Pristina, police prevent them from crossing downtown, 
		Serb state-run TV calls protestors "clowns", "parrots" 
		who are "blindly loyal to their foreign sponsors" while 
		Socialist Party spokesman says Kosovars "bent on 
		secession"; Fed. Dep. PM Danko Djunic resigns 
		position in protest over bureaucratic "blockade" 
		to eco. reforms; Socialist Party calls Mon. Pres. 
		Djukanovic program for change "his political demise";
		Reps. of 4 labor unions in Croatia est. Croatian Bloc 
		of Democratic Unions to represent  2/3rds of entire 
		work force; 500 teachers demonstrate for higher pay

April 10 - 	Kara. reportedly has contacted Plavsic, 
		Dodik about surrendering to Hague, but w/ 
		conditions of serving prison term in Orthodox 
		Christian country; Le Monde says Kara. may have 
		hired 2 Amer. lawyers for his defense team; 
		Westendorp's office says it will continue to remove 
		nationalist officials from office if they block Dayton
		implementation, may ban these from running in general 
		elections in September; 20,000 again demonstrate in 
		Pristina; Serbs report masked gunmen wound ethnic 
		Albanian official of Milo=s party in Duha, Kos.;
		Croatian Justice Min. Miroslav Separovic says he 
		has launched extradition proceedings against Dinko 
		Sakic, former commander of Jasenovac concentration 
		camp, who is now in Buenos Aires

April 11 - 	Bos. Serb news agency SRNA quotes Kara. wife Ljiljana 
		as saying that Kara. will never give himself up

April 12 - Djindjic, Pesic call for forming united opposition 
		platform against Milo's policies

April 13 - 	Mon. Pres. Djukanovic calls on intl. comm to help 
		form block of reformist forces in Yugo. to prevent 
		Milo's disastrous policies, warns that he may find it 
		necessary Ato open up the country to new perspectives 
		if Milo. continues to treat Mon. as junior partner
		5,000-10,000 ethnic Albanians stage series of peaceful 
		demonstrations in Pristina from 11-13th, thousands more 
		march in smaller towns; Yugo. state prosecutors now 
		also file charges against Sakic to be extradited 
		from Argentina

April 14 - 	Tudj. tells US, UK diplomats in Zag. that Croatia 
		to consider all requests for Croatian Serbs to 
		return home on individual, humanitarian basis, but 
		that all refs. arriving at same time would be 
		destabilizing and lead to tense state of affairs that 
		existed in '90-'91, diplomates remind him that this 
		is important issue linked to Croatian integration 
		into Euro. structures; WWII experts in Serbia contend 
		that Sakic's wife Nada should be extradited as well 
		as she was wartime commander at women's concentration 
		camp at Gradiska; Ger. DM Ruehe says in Sara. that 
		Ger. pks will participate in NATO efforts to 
		apprehend indicted war criminals if asked to do so; 
		Hard-line Bos. Serb leader Bozidar Vucurevic says 
		Kara. in e. Herzegovina protected by 23,000 Serb 
		soldiers; Slovenia extends $600,000 aid package to 
		Bos, total for year to reach $3 million; Intl. 
		community rep. in Mostar, Martin Garrod, warns 
		Croatian leadership in Stolac to investigate minings 
		and burnings of Mus. homes and to publish their 
		findings; Hand grenades thrown into police station 
		in ethnic Abl. neighborhood wounding 1 policeman; 
		40 Serb families in Decan area leave their villages, 
		temporarily relocated in recreation center nearby, 
		say they feared attacks by ethnic Alb.

April 15 - 	Westendorp says in Sara. that he will take 
		responsibility for making decisions if local 
		authorities do not do so themselves, this after BL 
		mayor refuses to allow reconstruction of mosque 
		destroyed in '93; Croatian PM Zlatko Matesa says he 
		will propose "radical law on possession of firearms, 
		w/ severe punishments" after several incidents where 
		people use weapons to kill others and themselves; 
		Israel "fully supports" Croatian request for 
		extradition of Sakic; Dir.-Gen. of Israel FM Eytan 
		Ben-Tsur and Tudj. issue joint statement calling for 
		improved bilateral ties; Sesejl says possibility of 
		"war [in Kosovo] cannot be excluded, so we must be 
		ready for that option, but also do everything to avoid 
		it"; TANJUG says Ger. FM Kinkel is favoring Albanians 
		in Kos. and that this is "blatant, ruthless, and 
		unprecedented interference"; Reps. of groups from 
		Vojvodina, Sumadkja, and Sandzak meet in Novi Sad, 
		call for same type of open negotiations on issues 
		that Bel. says it is ready to offer to all ethnic 
		groups in Kos.; LDK splits, new party formed, New 
		Democratic League of Kosovo (LRDK), elects Rexhep 
		Qosja as party leader, blames LDK and Rugova for 
		gross irregularities in March 22 parl., pres. 
		elections; Yugo. army troops (not police) in Glakova 
		region seize 60 automatic rifles, 4 machine guns, 
		100 hand grenades, other "terrorist equipment" after 
		armed clash w/ smugglers attempting to cross border 
		from Albania, Bel. formally protests to Albania over 
		incursion

April 16 - 	Elderly Bos. Serb couple killed in home, house set 
		on fire in Drvar, total of homes torched in area now 
		around 50; US State Dept. blames local Croat 
		leadership for "the climate of intolerance and 
		harassment"; US amb. to Croatia, Wm. Dale Montgomery 
		says Croatia must help dismantle Herceg-Bosna, that 
		Zagreb's continuing support for it places a "heavy 
		financial and political burden on Croatia"; Hague 
		officials take custody of Zoran Zigic at BL prison, 
		sends him to Hague in connection w/ crimes commited 
		at Omarska camp in '92; More peaceful demonstrations 
		by ethnic Albanians to gain support for intl. 
		mediation of talks w/ Serbs; Chairman of US Joint 
		Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Henry Shelton says from Skopje 
		that intl. armed force could be sent to Kos. if no 
		pol. solution emerges

April 17 - 	Elizabeth Rehn, head of UN mission for Bos. orders 
		removal of Drvar police chief and local interior 
		minister while Westendorp fires Drvar deputy mayor, 
		Drago Tokmakcija, all of whom are Croats; officials 
		held responsible for wave of violence; mayor of town 
		is Serb but has no power since Croats control police 
		so Westendorp order 15 Serbs be added to force (town 
		had been 98% Serb prior to war, but Croats took it 
		over in '95); Mon. Pres. Djukanovic visits Chirac in 
		Paris, Chirac tells him France fully supports Mon. 
		in disputes w/ Belgrade, says he will call upon EU 
		to give aid to Mon.; Croatian parl. begins review 
		of govt. repatriation plan for Croatian Serbs

April 18 - 	Alb. parl. unanimously calls for NATO troops to be 
		stationed along border w/ Kosovo; Yugo. army says 
		there was a "serious border incident" involving 
		Albanians firing at joint commission investigating 
		prior shooting along border; US Dep. Sec. of State 
		Talbott says US has no plans for putting troops in 
		Kos., but will maintain presence in Macedonia;
		Plavsic says Milo. attempted to pressure Dodik to 
		install SDS, Radical party nationalist politicians 
		in Bos. Serb govt.

April 20 - 	LDK says buildup of Serb forces in Decani region 
		makes situation there "dramatic", that Serb forces 
		preparing for massive attack and that local residents 
		have been organizing; Kosovo Serbs say gunmen fire 
		weapons, throw grenades at Serb refugee camp in Babaloc
		while Serbian Info. Ctr. in Pristina says armed 
		Albanians grouping in region near town of Glodjane 
		(near Alb. border); Council of Europe rejects Yugo. 
		application to  join, that it first must seek peaceful 
		solution to crisis in Kosovo; UN forensics team begins 
		exhumations in Srebrenica area at Brnice; Bos. Serb 
		Zoran Zigic pleads not guilty at Hague to 69 counts 
		of crimes against humanity at Prijedor in '92; Javier 
		Solana says NATO troops to remain in Bos. until all 
		indicted war crimes suspects go on trial before 
		Hague, meets w/ Zubak, Izet, and rep. sent by Kraj.;
		Former editor-in-chief of Globus found not guilty of 
		libel by Zagreb court; Tudj. announces that his son
		 Miroslav Tudjman to be replaced by Justice Minister 
		Miroslav Separovic as head of Croatian intelligence 
		service; Croatia indicts former Jasenovac camp 
		commander Dinko Sakic for war crimes during WWII, 
		calls again for his extradition from Argentina

April 21 - 	Yugo. army convoy headed for Pec, Kosovo, army units 
		in Decani reinforced, heavy artillery positioned near 
		towns of Decani, Djakuvica while Serb sources contend 
		that Albanians receiving arms from across the border; 
		Several thousand ethnic Albanians stage 12th day of 
		consecutive protests in Pristina; Talbot calls for 
		immediate negotiations between both sides in conflict;
		Haris Silajdzic, co-chairman of Bos. Council of Min. 
		says de facto partition of country is being consolidated 
		w/ more than half of refs. being unable to return to 
		homes; Volkswagen to reopen its plant in Vogosca 
		(near Sara.) in July; Turkey pledges continued 
		support for Macedonia, Turkish President Demirel 
		calls on ethnic Albanians to "be patient and work 
		for a peaceful solution" in Kosovo

April 22 - 	Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Justice Louise Arbour 
		says she is confident Kara. will be brought to justice 
		and confirms Acommitment to the definite use of sealed 
		or secret indictments@ in efforts to bring Ahigher-
		level perpetrators exercising command responsibility 
		to justice, says she will seek life sentence if he is 
		prosecuted; US officials confirm that plan to catch 
		Kara. was called off after it was discovered that 
		French Major Herve Gourmillon had secret meetings 
		w/ him; Tribunal given 2 extra courtrooms to conduct 
		trials to speed up process; Mass grave site near 
		Brnice tampered w/ according to UN forensic experts; 
		5 Mus. houses in village of Pljesivica (s. Bos.)  
		where Croats dominate blown up;
		Ger. says Tudj. not keeping promises to let Serb 
		refs. return to homes and that "sanctions will 
		soon be needed"; UN Human Rights Commission approves 
		resolution condemning Serbian officials for 
		repressions in Kos., calls for withdrawal of special 
		Serbian police units, calls on Yugo. auth. to capture 
		indicted war criminals; 12 countries including 
		Russia abstain

April 23 - 	Yugo. army kills 16 Kosovar Albanians near Kos. 
		border w/ Alb., Yugo. sources say 23 ethnic 
		Albanians killed, 2 taken prisoner as Albanians 
		try to inflitrate at 3 different points from Albania, 
		more fighting in village of Babaloc where Serb refs. 
		from BH are located; Results of ref. show 97% of 
		voters reject for. mediation;
		Several hundred Bos. Serbs trap, stone Bos. Croat 
		Cardinal Vinko Puljic, 100 worshipers inside church 
		in Dervanta until NATO troops rescue them; Westendorp 
		dep. for ref. affairs says they expect 10,000 refs. 
		to return to former homes within next 2 months

	
April 24 - More fighting in Decan, Gjakova areas near Albanian 
		border; US reported to be preparing sanctions 
		against Yugo.

April 25 - 	Serbs reportedly shell village in Drenica area, 
		Serbs say masked gunmen wound policeman in Kijeva;
		Bos. Serb crowds block road to busses carrying Croat 
		refs. to a mass near their former homes

April 26 - 	Grenade attack wounds 5 Serbs in Tuzla area, Serbs 
		stone Muslims in response

April 27 - 	US to propose both positive, negative incentives at 
		Contact Group meeting, EU FM=s agree on ban of export 
		of police equipment, armored vehicles to Serbia, denial 
		of visas to Serb officials, but do not support proposal 
		on freezing export credits previously approved, do not 
		freeze Serbian assets abroad; OSCE amb. to Albania says 
		he doubts Serb sources on large incursion of UCK forces 
		into Yugo., while Albanian Int. Ministry says possibly 
		10 Serbian soldiers masquerading as UCK members 
		penetrated to Albanian village of Pogaj; 2 Serb 
		soldiers who claim they are pursuing terrorist group 
		arrested in Tropoja, Albania; Serbs say 2 more 
		policemen wounded again near Kijeva; Pristina daily 
		Bujku (allied to Rugova govt.) criticizes UCK for 
		not doing more to protect innocent civilians;
		Ger. FM Kinkel writes to Tudj. saying he expects 
		Croatia to help end attacks by Croats in Drvar against 
		returning Serb refs.; Bos. Serb, Mus. crowds block 
		road between Tuzla, Doboj after grenade, stonings; 
		200 Bos. Serb refs. arrive in BL from Croatian-held 
		Drvar where they had just returned to their homes;
		Former Mon. Pres. Bulatovic invited to national day 
		celebration in Bel., while Djukanovic, Plavsic, and 
		Dodik are all excluded

April 28 - 	Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians demonstrate 
		for peace, independence in Pristina; Yugo. forces 
		reported to have been shipping in new weapons, new 
		checkpoints set up in Decan area, police warn 
		journalists they may become targets if new sanctions 
		imposed on Yugo.; 20 unidentified soldiers fire on 
		Albanian border guards near Qafe Prushi; UCK says 
		Kosovo Ain a state of war@, calls Aon liberation 
		forces to join in common front and that Albania 
		is the Afatherland@ of all ethnic Albanians; Rus. 
		FM Primakov demands that Albania seal its border to 
		prevent smuggling of weapons into Yugo.
		UN says pks have taken down Serbian roadblock on 
		Doboj-Tuzla highway, Muslims have taken down their own

April 29 - 	Contact Group nations except Rus. agree to new 
		sanctions against Yugo. including freezing of assets 
		abroad; Yugo. failure to begin new talks by May 9 to 
		result in prevention of new foreign investment in 
		Serbia; Rus. agrees to urge end to Aunacceptable 
		status quo in Kosovo@, critics contend that 
		sanctions will not affect Milo., others of his clique;
		gunmen fire on police car near Duha (Kosovo) killing 1,
		wounding 1; police near Decan kill man at funeral of 3
		Kosovars killed by Serb police, mourners say police 
		fired into crowd; Orthodox Church rep. in Decan says 
		ethnic Albanians intimidating, physically abusing 
		local Serbs, but calls for dialogue between groups; 
		Ivan Markovic, dep. chairman of United Yugo. Left 
		(headed by Milo=s wife Mira Markovic) accuses Mon. 
		Pres. Djukanovic, parl. speaker Svetozar Marovic of 
		being party to foreign-led conspiracy against Yugo., 
		working closely w/ Albanian secessionists and terrorists