YUGOSLAV EVENTS CHRONOLOGY MAY-AUGUST 1997 May 1 - Bildt says Wash. should transfer some of its troops from Germany to southeastern Europe since there is no longer a Soviet threat to justify there being there but a real threat in the Balkans; Bildt's office announces cancellation of intl. donor conference because 3 Bos. sides can't agree on basic economic legislation for the republic; OSCE announces that voters crossing borders to vote in September elections must go directly to place of voting, not attempt to return home; Vandals in Karlovac, Croatia desicrate Jewish graves; Authorities in Zagreb assign additional frequency to Radio 101; Several thousand protest in Belgrade against Milosevic and poor living conditions Serbs attack 2 buses with Muslims trying to return to Brcko, also stone bus bringing US troops in from Hungary; exiled Muslim mayor of Brcko, Munib Jusufovic, resigns in protest against decision by intl. community to have returning Muslims take out Bos. Serb identity papers May 2 - Izetbegovic's office says meeting scheduled for today with Tudjman indefinitely postponed, pro-Croat govt. daily Vjesnik says Muslims backed out because they think Tudj. won't compromise on key points; OSCE says 93 parties submitting candidates for Sept. local elections, of which 43 are new, and that all 3 sides have failed to agree on election rules for Brcko May 3 - Tudjman, Kresimir Zubak meet in Zagreb, Zubak; Party of Democratic Action (Izet's party) says it will run in Sept. elections in coalition w/ 5 smaller parties including that of Haris Silajdzic, the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina May 4 - Vojislav Seselj says he will Serbian Radical Party's candidate in upcoming Serbian presidential elections; Cro. auth. fine Feral Tribune $7,000 for cover photo which they say is pornographic (shows Eastern Slavonian Croat leader urinating) May 5 - 420 OSCE offices open in BH to register citizens for upcoming elections, Bildt says from Brcko that office will open there in a few days; refugees inside Yugo. to be allowed to register there too; UN police, Bildt's office say 25 unoccupied Serb homes in Croat-controlled (but formerly mainly Serb) Drvar burned over weekend and 25 more are marked for destruction; UN says it will conduct its own investigation since Croat police are doing good enough job; Croat auth. say presidential elections to take place on June 15, candidates to have 12 days to register; Zagreb county court pardons 7 ethnic Serbs for spying for Yugo. army during war in '91, 2 still to face conspiracy charges; Yugo. President Lilic, Serbian PM Marjanovic, Mon. Pres. Bulatovic, and others meet w/ Milo., no details of meeting (most expect Milo. to seek Lilic's job or run for constitutionally barred 3rd term) May 6 - Tudj. tells Klein he wants border area between Cro., Hun., Yugo. demilitarized, that cons. provides for dual citizenship, and he favors agreement w/ Bel. on cross-border traffic; US charge-d'affaires in Bel. tells Rugova in Pristina that US has never supported the idea of elec. for a separate parl. in Kos.', that Kos. should support move for dem. of Serbian politics; Slo. govt. says it is not ready in the near future to est. dip. ties w/ Bel. May 8 - Rugova puts off Kos. elec. until Dec., extends by 6 months current leg. mandate; Mus. leaders in Sara. threaten boycott of Sept. elec. in Brcko after OSCE rules that Brcko vote to include only central, Serb-held districts, and not outlying ones controlled by Fed.; Joint cabinet in Sara. adopts state budget; Bos. auth. exhume bodies of 38 Mus. burned alive in Serb offensive in '92; Cro. auth. in Split put Viktor Ivancic, editor of Feral Tribune on trial for libel; Mac. Con. Ct. agrees to allow univ. Pedagogical Faculty to begin teachers' training courses in Alb. May 9 - US to supply 116 155mm heavy-art. cannons to Mus.-Croat fed. (which only had 6 to this point) as part of $100 mil. train-and-equip program, Euros. critical of move saying it will anger Bos. Serbs May 10 - Tudj. appoints ethnic Serb leaders Vojislav Stanimirovic and Jovan Bamburaca to upper house of parl., as well as writer Ivan Aralica, former central banker Pero Jurkovic, and pres. advisor Slobodan Lang as other members of 5 appts. he makes to 68 member parl. body; doctors proclaim Tudj. to be in excellent health'; Pro-govt. papers accuse Stipe Mesic, former confidante of Tudj., of giving extensive evidence to Hague about Tudj. and Croatia, papers say Tudj., Milo. met frequently to discuss partition of BH; Mesic says this is pol. lynching' which threatens his life; Bos. Serb, Croat leaders meet in BL,but neither sides officially confirms meeting; van den Broeck says Bos. refs. should not be sent home until Kara. caught May 12 - Contact Group reps. tell Cro. FM Granic to strengthen Croatia's ties w/ Bos., while Amb. Galbraith gives Tudj. letter from Clinton calling on pres. to do the same, as well as coop. fully w/ the Hague but threatens to block Cro. rels. w/ IMF if this doesn't happen; Joulwan wants 3,000 more troops for Bos., says they are necessary to ensure smoothness of Sept. elec.; SFOR reports that Bos. Gen. Atif Dudakovic threatened Canadian troops when they tried to confiscate unauthorized anti-aircraft weapons from Fifth Corp in Bihac area; Plavsic says Bos. Serbs will never start a new war but their army will preserve peace and defend RS, says Dayton gives Bos. Serbs a high degree of sovereignty'; Croat-Mus. Fed. govt. says it is willing to resettle 50,000 Serbs in Sara., Tuzla, Zenica regions; Mon. PM Djukanovic says in Podgorica that fed. diplomats in Athens blocking payment of Greek credits he recently negotiated for Mon., calls this shocking behavior' which works against republic's interests; Serbian Info. Min., Radmila Milentijevic says opp-controlled Radio-Television Kragujevac will have to pay for' repeated warnings to listeners that state-supplied news bulletins are 'lies' and that State Television must take control of Radio-Television Kragujevac and brings its management to justice', director of radio says his company is proud to be targeted in an attack by a corrupt and incompetent regime' May 13 - Relief workers in Croatia say govt. has confiscated tens of thousands of Serbs' homes and is resettling Croats in them esp. those who are living abroad; Granic, Dev. Min. Jure Radic to got to Wash. to review bilateral rels. w/ Albright after Clinton's tough letter to Tudj.; Tudj. also sends special envoy Franjo Greguric to Sara. to discuss implementing Dayton w/ Izet., Zubak; Zag. begins trial of Cro. employees of Soros Open Society Foundation on charges of tax evasion, viol. of currency laws; Steering committee of Mon's Dem. Soc. Party unanimously reelects Djukanovic as party vp, Bulatovic tells TV Milo. to have Mon. backing if he wants Yugo. presidency, will also back SPS candidate for presidency of Serbia; Medical, social personnel strike now in 3rd day in Bel.; Mac. says 2 Albanians killed, 2 Mac. border guards wounded when 100 Alb. refs. try to enter Mac. near Gostivar May 14 - Zag. announces that its new plan for return of refs. annuls earlier law stripping Serbs of property, while govt., other Croat orgs. say articles in NYT about Cro. fascism part of plan todiscredit Tudj. govt.; World Bank to give Cro. $95 mil. loan to improve banking, privatization; Cro. deps. in Bos. parl. walk out after disagreement over redrawing district boundaries; Western officials in Mos. express concern about public use of fascist slogans by Croat mil. officials; OSCE says elec. to go ahead in Brcko despite threat of Cro.-Mus. boycott; Med. workers in Bel. continue protest over back pay, say govt. not negotiating seriously' May 17 - Serb deps.take seats in Osijek-Baranja county for first time since '91, HDZ and Ind. Dem. Serbian Party (SDSS) reach power-sharing agreement for Vukovar, Beli Manastir May 18 - Observer says former Bri. For. Sec. Malcolm Rifkind blocked US request last year to turn over jointly collected intel. data to Hague, tele. conversations may have proved link between Milo. and Bos. Serb leaders, that Rifkind refused to change pk orders to arrest Kar., Mladic, and that Milo. regime made secret contribution to Conservatives of $160,000 through lobbying firm; Milo. meets w/ Krajisnik, RS PM Klickovic to discuss implementing eco. agreement between 2 entities; Raid service resumes betwen Tuzla and Doboj in RS May 19 - Cro. kuna goes into circulation in E. Sla.; HDZ takes control of Zag. city govt. after 2 members of Cro. Peasant's Party join them to elec. HDZ's Marina Matulovic-Dropulic as mayor, Zlatko Canjuga as council pres.; Rus. Dep. For. Min. Igor Ivanov meets w/ Milo. in Bel., says Yugo. membership in intl. orgs. must be restored, says democratization Yugo's internal affair' but that Rus. is interested that it develop; meets w/ Draskovic, Pesic, and Djindjic; Bos. Serb police increase patrols around Kara. residence in Pale in response to increased Ital. SFOR patrols, although SFOR says these are routine; pro-Bos. Serb Bel. weekly Argument says Kara. wants to go to Hague to clear his name, that he has large collection of documents to take with him; Cro. reps. in Mos. say they may transform the supposedly-defunct Cro. Rep. of Herceg-Bosna into cultural org.; 4-hour gun battle between Albanian bands, Mac. sec. forces near Debar May 20 - US, UN criticize slow pace of reorientation of Serbs into Cro. society; Pk in Mac. wounded by gunfire from Albanian side of border May 21 - Mac. Def. Min. says armed incidents increasing along border w/ Albania; US calls on Ger. to hold off on deportations of Bos. refs., Ger. Int. Min. Manfred Kanther says Ger. does not need advice from abroad; State Dept. announces appt. of David Schefferas special envoy for war crimes; Cro. auth. in Mos. say they have found network of tunnels under road separating sides on west bank of Neretva; Cro. FM Granic says country needs $3 bil. to help resettle refs. May 22 - Albright says US has long-term interest in Bos., will do all it can to preserve peace, promote unity, that there must be full implementation of Dayton, that 'Bosnians should either join the effort to make [Dayton] work or get out of the way'; Milo. says opp. parties w/ for. assistance are trying to destabilize Serbia, promises crowd in Arandjelovac that this year the country will enjoy the highest growth rate in Europe, twice as high as that of any other country; Rus. Dep. FM Igor Ivanov in Zag. says Rus. wants to extend by 6 months pk mandate in E. Sla. May 23 - Milo. apparently discusses dual citizenship w/ Bos. Serbs which would viol. provision of Dayton saying Bos. a unitary state; Contact Group reps. protest to Zag. over treatment of ethnic Serbs May 24 - BH Croats meet in Neum, found successor to Herceg-Bosna mini-state, adopt statute, flag, and coat-of-arms in viol. of Dayton; Zubak, fed. Co-PM Vladimir Soljic present at meeting, as well as Tudj. rep. Franjo Greguric, Cro. Def. Min. Susak May 25 - Tudj. says Cro. has promised to reintegrate E. Sla. Serbs but that it is 'unreasonable' for foreigners to insist that all Serbs be allowed to go home, that no one is making demands that all Sudenten Germans be allowed to go back'; says other countries need Cro. as much as Cro. needs them; Kara. tells Vecernje Novosti that he might implicate other Serbs if he goes before Hague, says he is tired of running and wants to clear his name, but says others may try to kill him to prevent it May 26 - Milo. tells US rep. Gelbard that Bel. will not hand over indicted war crims. after Gelbard tells him that Yugo. rels. w./ US, Europe, and intl. financial institutions depends on coop. w/ Hague, willingness to solve Kosovo problem; Draskovic and Seselj calls for replacement of Djindjic; Kuwait to buy $50 mil. of Yugo. mil. equipment; 106 schools closed due to teachers' strike; Mac. police in Gostivar break up armed clashes between ethnic Macedonians, Albanians, and Turks; British Labour Govt. to release secret service documents on Bos. war crimes; Local Serb, Croat leaders meet in Osijek to set ground rules for local governing bodies May 27 - First train in 6 years runs from Croatia's Vinkovci to Serb-held Vukovar as local Serb leader Vojislav Stanimirovic returns from talks w/ Tudj.; Croat FM Granic, Yugo FM Milutinovic sign agreement on dip., consular relations, Granic says he is unhappy w/ situation of Croats in Serbia, while Milutinovic says all Cro. Serbs who want to go home should be allowed to do so; Mac. PM Branko Crvenkovski announces key changes in cabinet which foreign dips. say favors neo-communists and expense of reformist May 28 - UN may be considering keeping pks in E. Sla. past deadline for 6 months longer than planned due to Cro. govts' resistance to permitting 350,000 exiled Serbs to return home; Mayor of Vukovar to be Croat, council president to be Serb, in Beli Manastir the mayor to be Serb, council chief to be Croat after Klein intervenes to prevent HDZ from making deal w/ small hard-line Cro. party in Vuk.; Albright addresses Hague Tribunal, pledges to intensify efforts to bring to justice indicted war criminals, says she will be giving Tudj., Milo. tougher messages, that a price will be paid for the atrocities that ravaged Bos. for 4 years; Gelbard gives Bos. pres. message from Clinton calling for tough action to help implement Dayton; UN Sec. Coun. votes to extend mandate for 1,100 pks until end of year May 29 - Fms of NATO, meeting in Portugal, say Dayton violations will not be tolerated w/ Bri. Sec. Cook stressing need to catch war criminals, bring them to justice; Italian FM Dini says his country opposes candidacy of Spain's Carlos Westendorp to succeed Bildt in Bos., says that US, France monopolized decision to pick Westendorp that successor should have considerable knowledge of Bos.; Gelbard, in Sara., says collective presidency has finally agreed on draft law setting up central bank, common currency after Croats, Muslims grant Serbs right to continue to use Yugo. dinar on their territory; Markovic says her husband Milo. won't seek 3rd term as Serbian pres., too early to discuss Yugo. position May 31 - Albright, in Cro., tells Reconstruction Min. that he should be ashamed of his record in resettling Cro. Serb refs., tells Tudj. to work harder to resettle Serbs, coop. w/ Hague or face punitive action; In Bel. when Milo. tells her she is misinformed about war crims. in Serbia she responds don't give me that. I'm from this region; I'm not naive.' June 2 - Tudj. visits Beli Manastir, meets w/ new town council including Serbs, appeals for mutual tolerance and pol. courage', urges listeners to shun 'extremism', says Serb rights to be respected, Serb politician Stanimirovic calls visit successful and encouraging'; Mos. talks result in agreement to set up 6 district govt. councils; OSCE says Serbs have decided to support extension of voter registration deadline to June 16; 4,000 tons of arms arrive at Ploce from UAE as part of US plan to equip fed. Forces (includes 50 tanks, 41 APCs); French Def. Min. says Fra, Ger to begin helping Serbs, Bos. forces destroy 150 tanks, 800 artillery pieces, other weapons; Yugo. United Left leader says Serbian elections to take place in fall, joint candidate of left to be Milo. June 3 - 15 ethnic Albanians go on trial in Pristina for terrorism; US State Dept. says there is little chance that remaining eco. sanctions against Yugo. to be lifted soon since Yugo 'is not a normal country', including Kosovo problem and lack of coop. w/ Hague June 4 - Talks on dividing former Yugo. assets ends in failure; Arkan' (Zeljko Raznatovic) threatens to sue CNN over program depicting him as war criminal; Members of 12 opp. parties meet in Bel., agree on set of minimum conditions for govt. before parties participate in elec., including ensuring access to media, providing funding for parties; Croatian opp. parties to form committee to monitor up-coming presidential elections, warns of need to better control process to avoid tampering w/ paper ballots June 5 - Milo. announces he will run for Yugo. presidency, but Mon. Dem. Soc. Party says it will decide later whether to endorse him, and that it rejects plans to strengthen fed. pres., or elect pres. by direct vote; Candidate of Liberal Party in Croatia, Vlado Gotovac, beaten by man in mil. uniform in Pula, police arrest attacker; Auth. in Osijek pardon Ante Gudelj, murderer of Josip Reihl-Kir in '91, before he begins to serve 20-year sentence; New UNHCR commissioner Carlos Westendorp says he will give priority to capturing war criminals; Bos. Serb govt. approves trade agreement w/ Yugo. which effectively eliminates administrative restrictions on trade June 7 - 11 homes in Croat-held Stolac set on fire shortly before owners set to return June 8 - Tudj., 2,000 others visit Vukovar, says all ethnic Serbs who recognize Croatia as their home and obtain Cro. documents are welcome to stay, but says it is not possible for all 150-200,000 ethnic Serbs to return home or 'discord and war' will break out, tells other Serbs not to let Bel. manipulate them; local Serb leader Stanimirovic says Tudj. speech not sufficiently conciliatory; Opp. leader Vlado Gotovac leaves hospital to return to campaigning, govt. says attacker drunken army captain who was suspended from duty as result June 10 - Gotovac says he has to consider whether to stay in Cro. Presidential race, while Social Democrat candidate Zdravko Tomac says he is considering whether to do same; Wash. agrees to support loan of $13 mil. by Intl. Finance Corp. to Croatia as positive signal' to Zag. after Tudj. reopens Brcko bridge to Bos., orders arrest of Croats who attacked local Serbs, and made E. Sla. speech; Cro. Dev. Min. Jure Radic says only 4,353 Serb refs. have formally applied to return to their homes; Serbian ref. org. in Yugo. says conditions for their people deteriorating, that some have died of starvation and that the person most responsible is Bratislava Morina who is in charge of refs. for Yugo. June 11 - Socialist Party of Serbia formally nominates Milo. for Yugo. presidency while steering committee of Mon. Dem. Soc. Party votes to postpone decision until 23 June; Women from 12 Serbian famililies from Istok join hunger strike outside Milo's offices in Bel. day after men from same families do the same, demand apts., other social benefits promised them in '91; OSCE monitors in Sara. say they are closing all 4 voter registration offices in Brcko due to massive fraud of Serb auth. in registering voters, that due to this problem by all three sides, everybody may have to register all over again June 12 - OSCE extends voter registration deadline for local elections to 28 June after discovery of Brcko fraud; US warns Bos. Serb auth. against fraud in elections saying we will stand up to them. And they will not be allowed to run false elections'; Health workers in Bel. demand resignation of Serbian govt. June 14 - Arkan sues CNN for slander, claims it doctored' footage ; Conference of ethnic Albanians says 700,000 Kosovars lack health care, 75% of employables lack jobs, 90% of pop. lives near poverty line June 15 - Tudj. wins 3rd term w/ 60% of vote, turnout estimated at 57% down from '92's 75%, HDZ says this reflects trends in western countries June 16 - OSCE says Cro. vote 'fundamentally flawed', that Tudj. had unfair advantages over opponents, Albright says same and that elec. results will not help Cro. attain $30 mil. loan from World Bank; World Bank reps. in Sara. say bank will not approve further aid projects if BH does not pay $8 mil. to the bank within 45 days which is part of BH $620 mil. share of former Yugo. debt, Bos. Serbs say they don't have any money; Turkish Pres. Demirel says NATO forces should stay beyond departure date in June '98 to ensure peace; United Yugoslav Left endorses Milo. for Yugo. presidency, say it is an expression of the citizens' broadest consensus and trust'; Popular Concord coalition in Mon. introduces motion in parl. in opposition to Milo's plans to elect fed. president directly since this would destroy the equal status of Serbia and Mon. June 17 - Opp. leader in Mon. says Milo., Bulatovic planning to launch coup to prevent Bula's enemies from coming to power; Gligorov, in Wash., tells Clinton that NATO should stay beyond June '98 mandate; World Bank reps., Bos. govt. reach agreement on repayment of BH debt; 140,000 Cro. refs. from Serbia protest in Zag. calling for govt. to obtain for them from Bel. any rights or benefits that Zag. grants to ethnic Serbs June 18 - Hunger strike in Nis by veterans, invalids of Yugo. wars; 10,000 students protest govt. plans to increase tuition; Clinton admin. proposes to Congress that future ties between Wash., Bel. be based on holding of free and fair elec, media freedom, coop. w/ Hague, and giving broad auto. to Kosovo, pressure called for to meet these conditions; EU also calls for Bel. to give autonomy to Kos.; Mon. PM Djukanovic criticizes insinuations' about his wealth to parl.; Reps. of Mac., Greece, UN meet in NY to try to find permanent name for Mac. HDZ, Liberals reach agreement in Zag., elect Liberals Dorica Nikolic as dep. mayor, while Gotovac, others criticize agreement; Lib. Dep. Chairman Zlatko Kramaric says party will probably split over links to HDZ; Bos. Serbs refuse to form joint delegations to intl. donor's conf. w/ Mus., Croats leading Plavsic to comment that Serbs must not place obstacles in way of conf. since they have received so little aid to date; Plavsic meets w/ Westendorp; Re-registration of voters begins in Brcko June 19 - Cro. Radio reports final elec. results as Tudj. getting 61.41%, Tomac 21.03% and Gotovac w/ 17.56%; turnout officially 57.68%; Mon. Pres. Bulatovic denies to parl. that feud between him and Djunkanovic reason for difficulties within Dem. Socialist party, but instead result of basic pol. differences, says sec. forces behaving as law unto themselves, engaged in massive corruption; Yugo. FM Miluntinovic meets in Rome w/ Ita. FM Dini for briefing on EU's Amsterdam summit, Dini says Yugo. must live up to its obligations under Dayton, respect recommendations on democratization made in '96 by Felipe Gonzales; Editor of Nasa Borba says in Nis that paper will not pay back taxes claimed by govt.; War vets resume hunger strike after talks w/ govt. break down; Car carrying personnel from Int. Min. fired on between Pristina and Podujevo; Serbian Ref. Min. Bratislava Morina refuses to meet w/ women refs. resettled in Istok (Kos.) over promised housing; Czech SFOR troops confiscate tank, 2 APCs, 2 art. pieces from Serbs near Omarska; Intl. aid donors meeting postponed now until mid-July, meeting between Tudj., Izet. also postponed until later in month June 21 - Leaders at G-7 (plus Rus.) meeting say that development aid will depend on compliance w/ Dayton, that Croatia, Yugo. must coop. w/ Hague war crimes tribunal and observe intl. norms on human rights; Serbian Health Min., health worker's union leader sign agreement providing for payment of back wages by end of month, ending of strike; Cro. Social-Liberal Party nat. leadership says that agreement between Zag.-based party and HDZ is void', leadership says Dorica Nikolic's decision to forge union within Zag. city council to promote her own interests; Development Min. Jure Radic says that demands that Cro. extend equal rights to all of its citizens including Serb refs. is 'unacceptable', says these demands don't differentiate 'between [Serbs] who took part in aggression and [Croats] who defended themselves'; Slovenian PM Janez Drnovsek sends telegram to Clinton asking him to reconsider exclusion of Slo. from first wave of NATO expansion June 22 - Krajisnik responds to G-7 meeting by saying Serbs will not give in to 'blackmail' for reconstruction aid; Mon. PM Djukanovic states that Montenegrins uniformly oppose Milo's plans to give more power to Yugo. presidency June 23 - Dem. Socialists Party meets in Podgorica, endorses Milo. candidacy for Yugo. presidency, also votes against Milo. proposal for direct election of pres.; Blaskic trial begins in Hague; Bos. Serbs raise last minute objections to reopening of civilian airports in Tuzla, Mos., and BL demanding that Serbs be put in full charge of BL airport as compared to being jointly administered by all 3 sides; Kraj. blocks proposal for joint body to coop. w/ Hague, insisting that each ethnic group have own rep. at the court June 24 - Zoran Djindjic says Zajedno no longer exists; Mon. opposition parties criticize DPS decision to endorse Milo. candidacy; Cro. Gen. Tihomir Blaskic goes on trial in Hague, denies charges; US says Cro. record on implementing Dayton Accords including return of refs., coop. w/ Hague is poor, reason to block World Bank loan; UN leader Annan says some pks should remain in E. Sla. until mid-Oct. and leave only if Cro. keeps its promises on treatment of Serbs, calls for UN pks to supervise Cro. police, Klein to have veto over local Cro. civilian auth. June 25 - Milo. goes to Pristina for first time in 2 years, tells local Serbs he will never give up 'even a single piece' of province, promises prosperity including highway to connect Kos. to Mon. and the sea; Cro. PM Zlatko Matesa says US decision to block$30 million World Bank loan is wrong, US asks World Bank for postponement on loan until July 1 Slovenia becomes full member of US-sponsored program on eco. devel. in SE Eur. (it had opposed this before since it wants integration into Cen. Eur., not Balkans) June 26 - Several hundred war vets. stage protest in Bel. for full recognition of legal status as vets, invalids, and all benefits owed them, 7 begin hunger strike; Yugo. Pres. Zoran Lilic names Veljko Knezevic amb. to Cro.; Greece calls for readmission of Yugo. to intl. community; Yugo. neg. in London say their country can only repay $480 mil. of $2.4 bil. owed to for. commercial banks as share of joint Yugo. debt; Democratic Party say Socialist proposal to increase number of electoral districts from 9 to 29 in Bel. will give Socialists more power at expense of smaller parties; VP of Yugo. parl. upper house says his DPS will not try to pass constitutional amendments to increase Milo's power due to Mon. opposition; UN Sec. Gen. Annan says Cro. has not done enough to win confidence of E. Sla. Serbs, says he is concerned that large number of refs. could flee area to Serbia, Mon.; Milorad Pupovac, leader of Serbian minority says there are now only 250,000 Serbs left in country, down from 700,000; Croatia govt. says it does not need World Bank loan, accuses Hague of favoring Muslims, treating Croatia unfairly; Auth. in Dalmatia shut down 1 ind. TV station, 3 privately-owned radios, ostensibly for not paying for their licenses; OSCE drops 4 ethnic Croats from ballots for fraudulent registration of voters in Zepce, Capljina; NATO to send 3,000 more pks to Bos. for elections June 27 - UN pks arrest indicted war criminal Slavko Dokmanovic in E. Sla. for murder of 261 patients in hosp. in Vukovar, send him to Hague, Yugo. FM Milutinovic calls it serious [and could] endanger the whole peace process', criticize Klein, say this compromises position of pks June 28 - Plavsic suspends Int. Min. Dragan Kijac June 29 - Serbian police interrogate Plavsic after she returns to Bel. from Britain, turn her over to Bos. Serb police who question her in Bijeljina; 3 men attack, rob Iranian amb. to Bos. near Brcko on Bos. Serb terr.; Tudj. spokesman says meeting between Tudj., Izet. has been postponed again w/ both sides accusing the other of not being serious about implementing Dayton Accords June 30 - Bos. Serb police detain Plavsic until intl. pks take her back to her hq in BL; Plavsic accuses Kara. of still running RS behind scenes, attempting to stage coup against her previous day, Kraj. says she is pursuing personal vendetta, harming state interests', Kara. spokesman says she is breaking the unity' of Serb leadership; Bos. Serb mil. presence reduced on road between Pale, BL, around Han Pijesak; Hague Chief prosecutor Louise Arbour says recent arrest, deportation of Dokmanovic was legal even though not previously announced; US mil. officials expel Bos. Gen. Selmo Cikotic from elite training course after Cro. claims he committed atrocities against Croats in '93; July 1 - Plavsic accuses Kara. and assistants of widespread corruption, says she is going to expose them, says Yugo. officials also involved, stands by decision to fire Int. Min. and says she also wants to get rid of PM Klickovic and threatens to dissolve parl.; SDS begins proceedings to depose her as pres., orders her to return to Pale or resign; Milo. paper in Bel. says Plavsic and family have large Swiss bank accounts set up by US sources; Gelbard, in Mos., threatens to cut off all aid unless local Croats form joint police force w/ Muslims, says they tolerate drug traifficking, other illegal activities; Yugo. says it will try war criminals itself, constitution prohibits Yugo. citizens from being extradited to Hague; World Bank indefinitely postpones loan to Croatia July 2 - Bos. Serb army leadership meets w/ Plavsic, says it supports constitutional order including backing the commander-in-chief, say they hope for speedy end to Plavsic-hardliners confrontation; Plavsic says Bos. Serbs have no choice but to carry out Dayton Accords even though they did not sign it; Klickovic states that Plavsic is doing work of foreign powers, pushing for re-establishement of unitary BH; Bri. SFOR pks increase patrol strength around BL in warning to Plavsic's opponents; US, Fre., Bri. govts., UN, OSCE all express support for Plavsic; Hague tribunal prosecutors call for life imprisonment for Dusan Tadic; Klein to become first dep. to Westendorp, intl. community's chief rep. in BH; Mon. opp. coaltion threatens boycott of parl. unless leg. discusses Mon. backing of Milo. candidacy for Yugo. presidency July 3 - Plavsic orders parliament dissolved due to its taking orders from Karadzic, sets new elections for Sept. 1, but Kara. allies refuse to recognize decree; Plavsic accuses police of organizing criminal activities'; Krajisnki says decree will be invalid if not accepted by RS govt. which PM Klickovic does (govt. not allowed to do this under current constitution); state tv shuts down studios in Plavsic's stronghold of Banja Luka July 4 - Serb parl. members fail in effort to unseat Plavsic due to having too few deps., Int. Min. Dragan Kijac (who she tried to fire) says she is working for foreign powers and trying to unseat Kara.; Slo. parties in parl. agree to coop. to change constitution by July 15 so that Slo. can meet EU associate membership requirements including giving foreigners the right to buy property (which is unpopular) July 5 - Plavsic speaks to several thousand supporters in BL, says she should have revealed extent of corruption much earlier July 6 - US Army Special Forces, CIA reported to be working on secret plan to capture Kara. according to US intelligence sources; Plavsic says she won't meet w/ Kraj. as she fears for her safety; Roman Catholic Bishop Josip Bozanic of Krk appt. by Vatican to succeed retiring Cardinal Franjo Kuharic as archbishop of Zag.; Croation Peasants' party votes to expel Zag. 2 city councilors who made separate deal to vote w/ HDZ in the city council July 7 - Former Croat leader in Hercegovina, Mate Boban, dies of brain hemorrhage in Mos.; US Sec. of State Albright says NATO should support Plavsic, calls for coordinated action against Kara., others opposed to Dayton; Plavsic calls on Kraj. to meet her in BL, says they are old allies from the start'; Draskovic says he supports her and that he will call Serbia into the streets if Milo. openly sides w/ her opposition; 100,000 turn out at Bel. airport to welcome home Yugo. national basketball team which just won Euro. championships in Barcelona; Cro. govt. announces beginning of repatriation of 80,000 Cro. refs. to E. Sla. July 8 - NATO says it will not tolerate any recourse to force or viol.' in Bos. as warning to Kara. allies who might carry out coup against Plavsic; Protection reportedly increased for Kara., Mladic; Plavsic turns down Milo. offer of joint meeting w/ Kraj. as there is nothing to discuss' w/ Milo. who has already destroyed everything of value in Serbia' Slo. PM Drnovsek writes in Wall Street Journal that Slo. deserves invite to join NATO at Madrid summit since it's admission would not bother Russia July 9 - Clinton says in Madrid that our mandate is to arrest people who have been accused of war crimes and turn them over for trial'; Milo., Kraj. meet in Bel., Plavsic refuses to attend who instead calls on Milo. to meet her at her hq in BL; Catholic Cardinal Vinko Puljic meets w/ Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle in Bel., announce new interfaith council for Bos. to include Muslims, Jews, Catholics, and Orthodox 2 ethnic Albanians killed in conflict w/ Mac. police in Gostivar, police arrest 300 Albs. after police take down Alb. flags at city hall; Denar devalued by 15% on recommendation of IMF; Yugo. soldier killed in clash w/ Alb. gang on border between 2 countries; First group of Croatian refs. returns to Bilje July 10 - Bri. NATO pks arrest war crimes suspect Milan Kovacevic (2nd ranking figure in Prijedor during war) flies him to the Hague; Simo Drljaca (police chief in Prijedor) killed in shootout as part of Operation Tango', secretly approved plan to issue sealed indictments against war criminals; Clinton says 'it was the appropriate thing to do', Bos. Serb news agency says Drljaca first of 40 on secret NATO list of Serbs to be liquidated, while Plavsic calls Drljaca death 'murder'; Con. Ct. Of RS says dissolution of parl. illegal Opp. legislators in Podgorica say they don't believe Bulatovic's contention that he doesn't know Mladic is vacationing on coast; First group of Serbs leaves Klisa for former homes in Croatia; Serbian govt. dissolves local Mus.-dominated govt. in Novi Pazar in Sandzak July 11 - Bos. Serbs say in letter to NATO Gen. William Crouch that Oper. Tango was a 'dramatic change' in pks mission and exceeded its auth.; US Senate passes resolution which urges admin. to withdraw troops by planned date of June '98, backs away from cutting off funds, concedes that some non-combat presence will be needed by US after deadline; Sen. maj. leader Lott says cutting off funds would undermine US policy at crucial time; Steering committee of DPS in Podgorica votes to remove Bula. As party pres., replace him w/ Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic of anti-Milo. faction, Bula. says only party cong. can do this July 12 - Krajisnik, Plavsic meet w/ Kraj. saying some progress achieved but Plavsic not commenting; Serbian ct. in Pristina sentences 15 ethnic Albs. to jail for terrorism, police prevent protests over Novi Pazar govt. dissolution; Podgorica DPS org. votes to oust 15 reformers including Pejanovic-Djurisic, Djukanovic July 13 - 2,000 Serbs attend funeral of Drljaca, bomb destroys UN vehicle outside UN police hq in Zvornik (Serb controlled), Plavsic criticizes the oper. but does not attend funeral which is shown on Bos. Serb TV; bomb destroys windows in hotel, school in Zvornik; Bri. Def. Sec. George Robertson says this won't be last SFOR action; Kraj. says Plavsic should resume talks by next day, Plavsic says she is too ill' July 14 - Bos. Serb chief of staff Maj. Gen Pero Colic says if NATO pursues war crims. 'this will be a sign that the Dayton agreement and coop. no longer exist'; Dusan Tadic given 20 years for war crimes by the Hague; Parl. committees in Bel. say Milo. only legitimate candidate for Yugo. presidency; Steering committee of DPS meets in Podgorica, overturns decisions of Podgorica, Pljevlja party orgs. to dismiss reformers, turns down motions to expel Bula. from party; UN Sec. Coun. votes to extend mandate of UN Transitional Admin. in E. Sla. (UNTAES) for 6 months, FM Granic says that there is no problem w/ minorities but instead one group which decided to take up arms July 15 - Clinton says Serbs 'have clearly not complied with that provision of the Dayton agreement' (arresting war crimes suspects) , and so they have no call to take retaliatory action, and it would be a grave mistake to do so', White House further says there will be a 'swift, forceful response' to further provocations; 1 US soldier killed, 1 wounded when their jeep runs off road (10 Americans have died by this point); Another blast at OSCE building in BL Milo. elected president of Yugo. Federation in special session of Fed. Parl. which is being boycotted by opp., opp. claims vote illegal; Socialists trying to replace Djindjic as mayor of Bel.; Police in Debar, Mac. take down Alb. flag, put up Mac., mayor then removes Mac. flag after city council calls for this; 2,000 pks begin withdrawal from E. Sla. July 16 - US soldier attacked, wounded by Serb w/ a sickle in Vlasenica (35 miles ne of Sara.) where troops are isolated, but US says attacker may have been a thief; grenade hits house being used by UN in Prijedor; Kraj. calls for calm, tells people that Dayton is in their interest; Sec. guards prevent Bulatovic from entering building where DPS steering committee is meeting, while Mon. Justice Min. Says that Milicia Pejanovic-Djurisic of anti-Milo. group is now DPS leader July 17 - Robert Gelbard tells Senate For. Rels. committee that capturing war crims. now 'first on the list of priorities' and that US will 'continue to look for other ways to secure their (war crims.) capture' in Cro. as well as Serbia; 4 grenades hit Bri. army compound outside BL, no one wounded, soldiers fire at attackers, later arrest 4 and hand them over to Serb police; US continues to say that SFOR's official position is that there is no evidence attacks are related; Opp. politicians call for banning of Seselj from public life, media after Seselj's bodyguards beat human rts. lawyer Nikola Barovic at BK Television, Seselj reportedly telling Barovic consider yourself a dead man'; Bulatovic calls for early elec. as means to end crisis July 18 - Amer. pk hit by glass from bomb thrown at his house in Doboj; 2 other blasts outside house of UN monitor in Prijedor, grenade explodes in Serb-held town of Mrkonjic Grad damaging 2 NATO vehicles; thousands of posters of Kara. put up in RS area with pictures of Kara. saying 'don't touch him' July 19 - Fre., Ita.. pks mass 11armored vehicles near Kara. home, drive within 50 yards of his home but no other action taken; Plavsic says in interview w/ Ger. magazine she is willing to use police to arrest Kara., that 'his ... activities have growns since I became pres....and all this is to the detriment of our famished population...I will not run a criminal state' July 20 - Serb Dem. Party expels Plavsic as 55 of 84 members of party's governing board show up for and vote in meeting, accuse her of aiding NATO in trying to arrest war crims., say they will no longer obey her; official of Socialist Party in Bos. accuses Plavsic of putting her own interests ahead of those of the RS, Plavsic says she is relieved at being expelled from SDS; Pale news agency claims that police and army officials meet, decide to back Plavsic opponents (despite army being supportive of Plavsic); 2 explosions in BL, 1 in Trebinje (s. Bos.); Cro. govt. says it will not honor Hague ultimatum of providing within 1 month key documents concerning Gen. Blaskic, for DM Susak to appear in hague, Cro. says ct. doesn't have auth. to issue demands to sovereign states July 21 - US amb. to UN Bill Richardson calls provocations intolerable, and if not ended, they could pull us down an extremely dangerous road', the sec. forces should arrest those responsible for viol.; Plavsic says she won't give up pres., says Kara. chaired meeting of SDS which expelled her; Cro.-Mus. joint police patrols begin in Mos.; Feral Tribune reports that bibliographies of Tudj's works in country's two main libraries have been purged of references to his 1950s-60s works on partisan movement, founding of socialist Yugo.; Albania denies it played any role in events in Tetovo, Gostivar, but instead it was probably Belgrade's doing July 22 - Con. Ct. of RS overrules cabinet objections to Plavsic decision todissolve parl., hold new elec., says this is the president's area of auth.; OSCE bans 3 top Serbian candidates from Brcko ballot Mon. parl. objects to Milo's proposed constitutional changes; 3 Cro. generals retired, 9 other officers transferred who are suspected of war crimes as Tudj. tries to get Cro. mil. in shape for joining NATO's PfP; Vatican denies that it is holding gold taken from victims by Ustashe during WWII July 23 - Milo. moves into White Palace, formerly Tito's and Serbian kings' residence after being sworn in as pres. of Yugo., promises 'peace, progress and prosperity', thousands protest by throwing shoes at his car, parl. building to represent hundreds of thousands who have emigrated due to Milo's policies; police attack dems.; Mon. premier Djukanovic says that 'if he (Milo.) refuses to join the world community w/ radical reforms' Mon. deps. to fed. parl. will try to unseat him; Delegates to intl. aid conf. send message to RS that they will receive no aid unless they arrest war crims., although humanitarian assistance to be continued; conf. raises $1.2 bil. in pledges (short of target of $1.4 bil.) for rebuilding Bos.; Bomb blast hits UN car in Bratunac (near Sreb.); US UN amb. Richardson calls on all western countries to support Plavsic; US diplomat William Walker slated to replace Jacques Klein in E. Sla.; Cro. Health Min. Andrija Hebrang meets w/ local Serbs in Zag. on plan to integrate Serbs into Cro. health system in Vuk. July 24 - Milo. meets w/ Draskovic, promises free and fair elections for pres., parl. (Djindjic, Pesic not invited to meeting); Sandzak Mus., other opp. leaders call on US, intl. orgs.to put end to Milo's pol. pressure on Mus. in region, this after police previous day ban opp. meeting for sec. reasons; Drunken Serbs throw grenade at group of Dutch pks in Kotor Varos area (near BL) wounding 1; RS Senate calls on all sides to end feuding before it is too weak to resist reincorporation into rest of Bos. July 25 - US soldier's car fire-bombed in Vlasenica (near Sreb.); Hague calls for Mon. to assist in investigation of war crimes; IMF to withhold planned $40 mil. loan to Cro. until further notice (implementing Dayton) July 26 - Yugo. Comm. Min. Dojcilo Radojevic suspends threatened closure of 55 ind. TV, radio stations for duration of elec. campaign; Ger. FM Kinkel returns from Bos., says refs. won't get deluxe return' when they go back but shouldn't expect complete sec. July 27 - Kinkel warns Bos. Serbs they won't get intl. assistance if they continue attacks on intl. reps. in Bos. July 28 - 3,000 demonstrators throw rocks, eggs at cars of 4 top Milo. lieutenants in Podgorica for talks w/ Bulatovic who blames incident on Int. Min. for failing to maintain order; Int. Min. says it was 'too risky' to try to disperse such a large crowd; Socialist Party of Serbia VP Zoran Lilic says Serbia will go ahead and change constitution transferring more powers to Milo. as Yugo. pres. even though all Mon. parties are opposed to this; Mon. public prosecutor says Mon. will assist Hague in charges against current Yugo. Def. Min., Pavle Bulatovic, that he helped deport Mus. refs. in '92 at beginning of war; Westendorp calls on UN Sec. Coun. to freeze assets, bank accounts, and seize property of indicted war criminals; Izet. calls on Westendorp, EU, World Bank to name members to new commission investigating corruption, that should charges be proven false any foreigner spreading 'such lies' will be asked to leave BH July 29 - Clinton admin. sending Hol. to Bos. since US says it is behind schedule on Dayton; NATO decides to treat Bos. Serb paramilitary police as combat troops to allow NATO to search their weapons-storage facilities and confiscate weapons considered illegal by Dayton; Brcko supervisor says 5-6,000 Serbs living in Croat, Mus. homes to be asked to leave in next 60 days, that Bos. Serb auth. will carry out the evictions; Mus.police chief of Vitez tells Hague trial of Gen. Blaskic that Cro. snipers killed old people and children in '93; Ct. announces that mass grave near Brcko being excavated; Westendorp says comm. to investigate corruption to be set up ind. of Izet. organ doing same Yugo. DM Bulatovic says Mon. Public Prosecutor Susovic damaged Yugo. ints. in trying to link Bulatovic to war crimes; PM Djukanovic rejects Pres. Bulatovic's claim that auth. encouraged stoning of Serbian del. cars; Nasa Borba ed. says govt. trying to snuff out paper w/ $65,000 tax bill; Cro. FM Granic says his country won't turn over to Hague war crimes documents subpoened by ct., calls it 'vital to ... nat. sec.'; Gen. Ivan Korade, hero of '95 Knin campaign, reportedly arrested after refusing to resign as ordered by Tudj. and hand over command at Varazdin, Var. district prosecutor charges him w/ 'violent behavior' in city, but Gen. refuses to appear in ct. July 30 - Bri. For. Sec. Cook meets w/ Tudj., says 'patience of the intl. comm. is running out' over slow pace of Dayton reforms, also comments that Cro. can join EU institutions 'only if it embraces standards of a modern Eur. state'; Kraj. calls on war crimes tribunal to send reps. to Pale to discuss issues w/ Kara., says he is sure Kara. will coop.; Indicted Bos. Serb Milan Kovacevic appears before Hague, pleads not guilty of war crimes; Serbs prevent 40-50 Mus. from returning to their village of Svjetlica; Cro. FM Granic says 'a group' of Bos. Croats is willing to go to Hague if assured cases will be processed within 3 months; Cro. For. Min. accuses Yugo. of trying to force ethnic Croats out of cities, esp. Zemun July 31 - Westendorp says that anyone who has been indicted by Hague is liable to arrest; Kraj. says 'sec. concerns' reason for him not attending meeting w/ NATO's Solana on Bos. govt. territory, but Westendorp spokesman says that if Kraj. thinks his name is on a list that's a problem for his own conscience; OSCE reps. say Bos. Serb TV using propaganda in 'gross violation' of Dayton rules for broadcasts due to Serb racial comments, claims that NATO dropping poisons and vermin into RS; Mon. Int. Min. Filip Vujanovic, reps. of Dem. Union of Albanians agreeto increase number of ethnic Alb. police in Ulcinj which is 85% Albanian; Rep. Elec. Comm. in Podgorica registers PM Djukanovic as sole official candidate for pres. from DPS; Djukanovic says Mon. wants to remain part of Yugo. but only as full partner Aug. 2 - Westendorp imposes intl. ban on Bos. ambassadors since 3 sides can't come to agreement on division of amb. positions Aug. 3 - Fed. Yugo. police kill 2 ethnic Albanians from Kos. who were supposedly trying to cross border and fired on guards; Djindjic's Dem. Party decides not to take part in Serbian elec. in Sept. since conditions for free and fair elec. not present; Mus. refs. flee homes they just returned to in Jajce after Croat gangs attack them and set fire to houses killing 1 man, Westendorp writes to Croat, Mus. leaders that refs. must be able to return within 48 hours; Ger. becomes first country to enforce intl. ban on contact w/ Bos. ambassadors Aug. 4 - US, Swe., Fra., UK, Aus., join amb. boycott of Bos.; deadline passes for 3 sides to agree on common citizenship, joint passport; All Mus. again driven out of Jajce; Kara. reported to have held talks w/ Milo. in Bel. 2 police, 1 civilian wounded by attackers at Gornja Klina near Srbica Aug. 5 - Westendorp refuses to meet w/ Holbrooke after hearing of US criticisms of his being away from the country too much; Mus., Croat reps. agree to allow Mus. villagers to return to homes near Jajce; Switzerland, Rus. join 12 other countries boycotting Bos. Amb.; IPTF finds, releases 2 Serbs Bos. auth. Were holding in prison in Zenica in viol. of Dayton; OSCE not to monitor Serbian elec. unless Bel. removes some conditions it wants to place on operation including which countries send monitors Aug. 6 - Holbrooke, Gelbard meet in Split w/ Tudj., Izet., agree to timetable for return of refs., border posts, civil aviation; Cro. told that $70 mil. in loans from World Bank, IMF will be blocked unless it cooperates on war criminals; 7 more Mus. homes set on fire near Jajce; Bulatovic supporters hold rump congress of DSP in Kolasin Aug. 7 - Hol., Shalikashvili meet in Tuzla, US Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Commander, possibly to discuss arrest of Kara.; Hol. goes on to Sara. for meeting w/ collective presidency, obtains agreement on joint telephone system, decision to divide ambassadorships among 3 groups, but gets nothing on war criminals or refs.; Plavsic sets dates for parl. elec. for Oct. 10-12; 15 opp. parties say they will work together in elections, will set up govt. of experts to guarantee constitutional govt. and fight organized crime if they win; Kara. tells Ger. paper he is ready to stand trial for war crimes provided they are held in RS; Mon. Trade Min. says Serbia is applying eco. blockade against Mon.; Kos. Lib. Army claims responsibility for recent shootings of 2 Serb policemen, 1 ethnic Albanian Aug. 8 - NATO orders paramilitary forces throughout BH, including those guarding Kara., to submit to NATO control in one week; special police to be treated as combat armies, subject to same regulations as other mil. forces, all duties by special police must be authorized, monitored by NATO and conducted only w/ regular civil police; special police may carry sidearms but no long-barrel weapons w/out NATO permission; NATO action taken despite fear of 'mission creep' due to impression that peace process not working out; Hol., Gelbard meet w/ Plavsic, later in day w/ Milo. with whom they have long working dinner; Fra. decides to restore diplomatic ties Aug. 9 - Hol. says he told Milo. bluntly that Kara. will be arrested unless he takes himself out of circulation voluntarily, that Kraj. agreed to respect this decision and that nothing was given in return; NATO forces make first inspection of police force loyal to Kara., find no illegal weapons; Bos. collective presidency calls on for. govts. to lift diplomatic boycott, Ger., Italy agree Aug. 10 - NATO commander for Bos., US Gen. Eric Shinseki meets w/ Krajisnik, says this is 'good first step to est. a good relationship', says Wash. insists on police, paramilitary forces being placed under NATO control; Kraj. says Bos. Serb Int. Min. appt. a liaison officer to work w/ peace force, UN police, says he hopes that NATO will not confront any more war crimes suspects and attributes attacks on NATO troops Hague secret indictments; Draskovic says his Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) to take part in parl., pres. elections in Sept. so that voters will have a choice Aug. 11 - Plavsic says that US tried to cut deal w/ Kara. allowing him to go to third country to avoid prosecution at Hague but that Kara. turned it down and resented her proposing it to him; Plavsic says Albright broached idea to her at June 2 meeting in BL; US emb. in Sara. denies it was aware of any such offer; Plavsic also says she will head new party in elec.; NATO troops says special police forces to be banned except in protection of elected officials or dignitaries; Serge Robert, Fre. head of Bos. Central Bank says bank has begun operations, new currency to be called 'convertible mark' at 1-1 rate w/ Ger. Mark; OSCE officials say unnamed persons threatening their staff in Zepce (most likely Mus. officials trying to manipulate voter registration) Mon. Elec. Comm. says that Bulatovic will also appear on ballot representing DPS even though this is not permitted by law; Aug. 12 - NATO forces begin inspecting weaponry of Bos. paramilitary forces Djukanovic forces appeal to Con. Ct. to overturn Electoral Commission ruling allowing Bulatovic to run for reelection; Bos. opp. group AAssociated List 97 (5 party coalition) files formal protest against Izet's anti-corruption commission, says it represents only Izet's party; Westendorp spokesman says intl. comm. regards Plavsic dismissal of parl. to be legal; Intl. mediators reach agreement w/ Mus., Cro. reps. in Jajce, Travnik to allow Mus. refs. to return home, Cro. govt. to guarantee Mus. safety Aug. 13 - Plavsic tells Financial Times that Albright offerred Kara. safe passage to 3rd country if he leaves Bos., says that Kara. treated her 'with animosity' and rejected it; Albright, White House all deny report; Plavsic agrees on reforms for RS police w/ SFOR commander Eric Shinseki; NATO mil. commander Wesley Clark makes unannounced visit to Kara. hq, tells him he should turn himself in 'voluntarily', also criticizes use of 3,000 special police as Kara. bodyguards; Intl. supervisor in Brcko, Robert Farrand, says Serb auth. refusing to issue identity documents to Mus., Cro. refs. from town, while RS PM Klickovic says this is due to Atechnical difficulties, says Farrand trying to encourage more refs. to enter town Aug. 14 - Mon. Constitutional Court rules that only Djukanovic is legal pres. candidate of DPS, Bulatovic must run as candidate of another party, Bulatovic supporters say they will appeal to Yugo. Con. Ct. while spokesman of Socialist Party of Serbia says SPS supports Bulatovic's Acon. rt. to be elected; Djukanovic tells reps. of Dem. Union of Albanians in Ulcinj that he will restore to Tuzi status of municipality it had until 1961 thereby providing more jobs for ethnic Albanians, Serbian Party of Mon. calls it a Acheap political trick to win votes; Bel. claims that armed incidents on border w/ Albanian increasing, that groups of people, including children trying to enter Kos. w/ assistance of armed persons; Serbian PM Marjanovic says Kos. will always be part of Serbia, promises to promote eco. devel. for region; Bujar Bukoshi, PM of Kosovo govt.-in-exile says in interview that moderate tactics of Kos. leadership have reached dead end, Kosovars must resort to stronger forms of civil disobedience; Pentagon announces it will temporarily expand SFOR contingent from 8,000 to 12,000 troops for upcoming elec. enforcement; Cro. State Prosecutor's Office asks cts. to initiate investigation into Tudj. critics Dobroslav Paraga (ultra-nationalist) and Zvonimir Cicak (human rts. activist) for spreading lies about Tudj. Aug. 15 - Bos. Serb Con. Ct. rules Plavsic decision to disband parl. is illegal, US says earlier in day that court had come under intense pressure from hard-liners, Westendorp and EU legal experts all contend that ct. does not have auth. to rule on the case and they are prepared to ignore its decisions; 2 judges reportedly have phones tapped by state security and 1 of them (Jovo Rosic) badly beaten in effort at intimidation prior to ct. action; 2 Mus. killed, 1 wounded by automatic gunfire as they collect wood near village of Laze (5 miles N. of Sapna near boundary w/ RS and in demilitarized separation zone) Aug. 16 - Explosions near Mus.-controlled Bugojno destroy 2 Cro-owned homes, damage 3rd; Croats in Stolac stone busses carrying Mus. to former homes Aug. 17 - 50 special police loyal to Plavsic seize police station from hardliners who they say are conducting wiretapping, hardliners ask SFOR for permission to counter this by sending in their own troops but SFOR turns them down and sends Bri. pks to escort the first group out; SFOR says Plavsic loyalists violated new guidelines on special units set up this month by NATO; Intl. Police Task Force (IPTF) searches police station, collects evidence against Kara. forces; 100 Mus. refs. return to old homes in Cro-held Krusica (near Jajce), Bos. Serb police arrest 5 Mus.who returned to visit former homes in Olovo area Aug. 18 - Plavsic renews call for early parl. elec. in Oct. despite ct. ruling, says she will continue to fight against terror from hardliners who want only to create auth. rule such as in communism or fascism, denies prior knowledge of previous day's police raid; US rejects ruling of con. ct. saying Plavsic can't call for early elections; UN finds 200 tapes of wiretaps of Plavsic phones Draskovic in Pristina says Kos. should again be called AOld Serbia, but says there is enough room for Albanians, Turks, and Serbs; Mon. Con. Ct. tells Yugo. con. ct. that it would be violating fed. law if it becomes involved in party dispute; Mayor of Jajce limits number of Mus. able to return to nearby village of Lendici to 80 Aug. 19 - Plavsic loyalist and newly-appt. police chief of BL, Milan Sutilovic, arrested by Kara. state sec. forces (named BL police chief after police station seized), freed only after being forced to sign resignation; Westendorp, Gelbard back Plavsic call for new elections; Plavsic calls for daily demonstrations to protest Kara.'s policy of 'terror', while Kraj. warns that if she continues this way 'no force in the world can save her'; RS Fin. Min. Ranko Travar resigns due to current crisis; UN ends weapons buy-up program for E. Sla., and that anyone now found in possession of weapons subject to prosecution Cro. Justice Ministry arrests Pero Skopljak, former police chief in Vitez for extradition to Hague Aug. 20 - Bri., Czech pks seal off 6 BL police stations controlled by Kijac due to human rts. violations, finds large caches of weapons, SFOR official says pks determined to break Kijac hold over police; Gelbard says RS mil. resisting Kraj. efforts to assert auth. over army; Belgrade police block off parliament to prevent 100 students from getting to Milo. to present him with a banana on his birthday since Serbia has become a banana republic Aug. 21 - Kraj. says on radio that police should obey Kijac, calls Plavsic's appointments of police officials 'illegal'; Serb side fails to show up in Sara. to sign agreement on civil aviation, Westendorp threatens them w/ sanctions unless they stop impeding progress; SFOR, Plavsic police now in control of 5 key police stations; SFOR seals off base of Sixth Battalion special police near BL; NATO commander Gen. Shinseki tells Kraj. he will be held personally responsible if Serbs attack either UN, NATO troops and police Aug. 22 - NATO officials tell Financial Times they saved Plavsic from coup attempt in June when Int. Min. troops had planned to take Plavsic from Bel. airport back to Bos. for 'psychiatric treatment', but instead chose an SFOR border crossing and were stopped; Con. Ct. judge Jovo Rosic confirms that Kara. men beat him, threatened to 'liquidate' him if he didn't vote against Plavsic; Ger. For. Min. political director, Wolfgang Ischinger, in Bel. tells Milo. that his condition of support for presidential and parl. elections at same time is unacceptable, that Ger. will more strongly support Dayton's implementation in future; Serb military denies that it plans to introduce state of emergency, says it supports democratic process; BL radio, TV employees severe all links w/ Pale, say they are tired of broadcasting 'primitive propaganda'; Plavsic names Mark Pavic as Interior Minister to replace Kijac; Serbian parliamentary leader Adem Demaci says there are no political forces in Serbia prepared to deal w/ Albanians as equals and solve the Kosovo problem, says Albanians will take part in upcoming elections if a Serbian party offers platform that Albanians can accept; Zagreb court officials say they will begin proceedings against Mostar militia figure Mladen 'Tuta'Naletilic' arrested in Feb. on charges of criminal dealings in Mostar Aug. 23 - Pale says Pavic appointment illegal, it will no longer recognize Plavsic decisions as binding; Conference of Istrian Democratic Party ends in Porec calling for end to strong presidential govt., and parl. republic w/ changes in electoral laws instead; Albanian close to Serb authorities killed in Srbice (nw of Pristina) Aug. 24 - TV, radio staff in BL cut off transmissions from Kara. -controlled studios in Pale, broadcast their own news for first time; Plavsic speaks at rally of 5,000 in BL in favor of splitting up state radio and TV, says as supreme commander of army of RS she is in charge of military, that 'Kraj...has no right to meddle in army affairs'; Bri. For. Sec. Cook suggests some war crimes trials be held in Bos. Aug. 25 - Plavsic supporters take control of police station in Mrkonjic Grad that controls one of several smuggling routes for Pale; meeting between Plavsic, Bos. Serb army general staff postponed for 1 day, no reason given, although she tells army not to take sides in power struggle, that it's duty is to defend the entire people; RS VP Dragoljub Mirjanic endorses Plavsic, decision to dissolve parl and have early elections; Albright calls Milo., tells him Wash. want him to stop being neutral in Bos. Serb power struggle; Westendorp threatens to ban intl. travel for members of joint Bos. institutions unless they resolve differences on passports, citizenship; Police station in Decani, Kosovo attacked w/ bomb; Six Mon. opposition parties say they will not take part in election as it won't be a fair vote; Mac. President Gligorov says that all the ethnic Albanian parties in Mac. want to secede from state by rewriting constitution to give special status to western Mac. where Albanians are concentrated, but says Albanian politicians are assured of role in any Mac. govt.; also tells NATO commander Gen. Wesley Clark not to reduce size of force in Mac. Aug. 26 - Half of Gen. staff refuses to meet w/ Plavsic including Chief-of-staff Pero Colic who turns down NATO offer to bring him to meeting in BL; Senior mil. official, Lt. Col. Mikajlo Mitrovic, speaking for First Krajina Corps, calls statement issued by collegium of general staff 'act of treason and refusal to obey orders by the supreme commander', says 'largest number of officers do not agree w/ such a decision' and won't back the general staff's decisions; 45 of 83 RS parl. deputies meet in Pale, reject Sept. local elections saying they won't have proper security, declare void Plavsic invitation for OSCE to monitor vote, vote to remove her from command of the army, call for plan 'for defense of the constitutional order'; Deputies say SFOR siding w/ Plavsic, approve cabinet reshuffle making fired Int. Min. Kajic new dep. PM; Milo. tells OSCE envoy Robert Frowick that holding joint pres., parl. elections only way to solve crisis in Bos.; SFOR steps up patrols around Plavsic TV relay station; SFOR commander Gen. Eric Shinseki tells Serb, Croat, and Muslim generals to stay out of politics; Tudj. endorses British proposal to hold some war crimes trials in Bos. Aug. 27 - Plavsic supporters w/ SFOR help take control of TV transmitter in Duga Njiva, later in day Kara. forces retake it; SFOR forces in Brcko take up positions around police station held by Kara. loyalists, prevent Plavsic police from entering, fire shots in air to disperse crowd; Kara. police arrest pro-Plavsic member of Bos. Serb parl. Milovan Stankovic; Milo. proposes he go to Bos. Serb territory to help in dispute; Wash. announces $9 million in reconstruction aid for Bos. Serb towns that back Plavsic; Klickovic says his authorities will 'not tolerate' Plavsic, will 'use all means' to limit movements of pro-Plavsic supporters on Pale- controlled territory; OSCE in Sara. rejects Pale govt. proposal to postpone local elections; Yugo. Fed. Constitutional Court 'temporarily suspended' Mon. election commission decision blocking re-election effort of Bulatovic, gives authorities in Podgorica 10 days to appeal decision, but pres. of Mon. Con. Ct. calls Bel. decision a violation of Mon. and Yugo. law; 200 Serb families leave E. Sla. to return to former homes elsewhere in Croatia Aug. 28 - American troops secure Udrigovo transmitter on Mt. Majevica after calls for violence against foreigners are broadcast there, and to prevent Serb factions from fighting over it, 27 armed Serbs sent by Kara. are then disarmed and sent away as is an unarmed group sent by Plavsic to take control; Viol. in Brcko as Serb mob throws stones, sticks, molotov cocktails at American troops who arrived early in morning to take control of police stationUN personnel and facilities causing damage to 40 vehicles, 2 soldiers wounded by debris, SFOR fires several rounds over heads of crowd which has been called out by air-raid siren, RS police do not show up to stop it and SFOR evacuates 40 UN monitors, 50 others from town; UN condemns RS leaders for doing nothing, says citizens were incited to attack unarmed IPTF monitors, and then congratulated crowds for their actions; IPTF officer kidnapped, threatened and released in Zvornik; SFOR, IPTF conclude 3-day inspection, seizure of weapons in Vogosca area including 120mm mortars, 82mm recoilless rifles, anti-tank rockets, and more than 100,000 rounds of ammo. Aug. 29 - OSCE provides candidate list for local elec. including 19,584 names and 770 pages of text; Aug. 30 - Gelbard calls Krajisnik, other Serb leaders "liars", their policies "fascist and totalitarian", says they will face tough consequences if they continue to defy intl. community, but Kraj. responds that they will not be threatened; NATO warns that SFOR will not tolerate further attacks, hard-line Serb media may be taken off air as a result; 2 returning Croatian refugees murdered in Travnik area (Mus. controlled) Aug. 31 - Plavsic says persons from Yugo. behind organized armed attacks on NATO troops; Intl. community to keep contacts only w/ Bos. Serb officials supporting Plavsic; SFOR takes over Udrigovo TV relay station