WORLD
Wednesday, October 21, 1992
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Bosnia agrees to division plan
Leader accepts proposal,says he will resign
The Associated Press
GENEVA — Bosnia-Herzegovina's president yesterday agreed to permit his battle-torn country to be divided into autonomous areas and said he would resign by the end of the year.
Separately, the presidents of Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia and rival Croatia took steps toward normalizing relations.
The three leaders were meeting in Geneva to end the bloodshed in Bosnia and seek a political resolution for the former Yugoslav federation, which brushed aside that it has killed nearly 20,000 people and left more than 1 billion homeless.
Bosnian President Alija Izetbegov
ic, who long opposed any decentralization of his republic, said a proposal by international mediators to create eight to 10 autonomous regions was "fully acceptable."
But Izetebegovic again rejected Serbian demands for their own state. Bosnian Croatians, who control most of the rest of Bosnia, are nominal allies of the Muslim-led government but also independence-minded.
The war began in April, when Serbians took up arms after refusing to accept a referendum for an independent Bosnia. Since then, the Muslims, who make up about 43 percent of the republic's 4 million people, have lost control over almost all of Bosnia.
"We don't want to form three religious states. We want a European country, 'zetebgovic said.
The plan discussed by Izetebegovic would create regions divided along geographic lines, keeping principal farming and industrial regions intact
and Sarajevo as the administrative capital.
In an unexpected move possibly aimed at strengthening ties with Bosnian Croatians, Izetbegovic also said he would give up his presidency by December as foreseen under a 1996 constitution.
As leader of Bosnia's defense throughout the 8-month-old war, he had expected to stay in office. But Yugoslav media had speculated he would hand over power to an ethnic Croatian. Izetbegovic did not say who might succeed him.
Meanwhile, Yugoslav President Dobrica Cosic and Franjo Tudjman, the Croatian leader, signed an agreement to speed normalization of relations between their states.
Serbians hold about one third of Croatian territory, which they captured last year after Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia. Some 10,000 died in that war.
Cosic refused a Croatian demand
for immediate diplomatic recognition, but the two agreed to open liaison offices in each other's capitals, Zagreb and Belgrade, and to grant dual citizenship to Serbians in Croatia and Croatians in Yugoslavia.
The accord also would allow resettement of people from one country to the other, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
It was unclear what effect the agreements would have without the support of Slobodan Milosev, the hardline Serbian president, or that of Serbian fighters in Bosnia and Croatia, who have tended to disregard pronouncements from Belgrade or abroad.
Cosie said he had contacted Serbian authorities in Bosnia and Croatia "and insisted on the immediate stoppage of ethnic cleansing" — forced expulsion of other ethnic groups from the Serbian-occupied regions in Croatia and Bosnia.
Typhoon storms over Guam precautions save residents
The Associated Press
AGANA, Guam — The second typhoon in less than two months swept over Guam yesterday with wind gusts well over 100 mph, knocking out power and water to parts of the island of 135,000 people.
The eye of Typhoon Brian passed over the southern tip of the island about 9 p.m. yesterday, then moved back over ocean waters, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center on Guam reported.
The extent of damage could not immediately be determined because of communications problems, but initial, unofficial reports were omitinic.
"It's clearly not as bad as Typhoon Omar," said John Anderson of KGUM radio station in Agana. Omar hit the island on Aug. 28, destroying 900 homes and dozens of businesses and heavily damaging U.S. military installations. Damage from Omar was estimated at $487 million.
Reports of Typhoon Brian's intensity as it hit Guam were not immediately available, but as it approached it had maximum sustained winds of
115 mph and gusts to 145 mph and was moving west-northwest at 7 mph, the warning center said.
Power was out in some places, and residents in the southern part also lost water, said Guam civil defense representative Carl Gumataoat.
There were no immediate reports of structural damage. Gumataoata said.
"A lot of trees and bushes were blown all over the place," he said.
Several thousand of Guam's residents live in villages at the southern end of the island, which frequently gets battered by heavy rain and wind. The population centers are in the central and northern parts of the island.
Schools, businesses and government offices were closed and many residents were in shelters. Before the storm hit, residents up at stores to buv batteries, propane and flashlights.
More than 3,400 people were reported in 14 shelters.
After passing over Guam, the eye of the storm was forecast to continue over open oceans and not to ever toward Rota and Saipan of the Northern Mariana Islands, Hallin said.
Parliament picks its speaker for postwar Kuwait
The Associated Press
KUWAIT — The first postwar Parliament convened yesterday and elected as its speaker the man who held the post when the last parliament was dissolved in 1986 for being too critical of the government.
After the Gulf War ended seven months of Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in February 1991, Kuwait's enir promised his people democratic reforms that included an elected Parliament.
Ahmed al-Saadoun,58, won 46 votes against 13 for his only opponent, Abdul-Aziz al-Adassani, an independent.
But the opposition complained that the key portfolios in the new Cabinet, including defense, interior and foreign affairs, remained in the hands of the Al-Sabah family, which has ruled Kuwait for 250 years.
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