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<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="7">Events of November
1996 </FONT></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="5">Anne D. Baylon
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<CENTER><ADDRESS> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>CENTRAL
EUROPE </I></B></FONT></FONT></ADDRESS></CENTER></DIV>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4">Bulgaria </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 3</B> In
presidential elections, preliminary results show the victory of Petar
Stoyanov, the opposition candidate who campaigned on a pledge to speed the
pace of economic reform, over Ivan Marazov, his ex-Communist rival.
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Czech
Republic </I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 8</B>
Defense Minister Miloslav Vyborny announces that the government will
investigate whether Czech troops received adequate chemical protection
during the Gulf war.  Mr. Vyborny promises that health problems
related to service would be compensated financially. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Lithuania
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 11</B> In
parliamentary elections, the party of Vytautas Landsbergis, the man who
led the independence movement in Lithuania, wins with a large margin over
its former Communists rivals. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Romania
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 2</B>
President Ion Iliescu, a former high-ranking Communist and close aide of
dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, is up for reelection after seven years in
power. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 4</B>
President Iliescu will have to face a runoff on Nov. 17 against Emil
Constantinescu, an academic and centrist politician. Mr. Iliescu's party,
the Party of Social Democracy, loses parliamentary elections that were
held on this day. The voting reflects disillusion with Mr. Iliescu's
policies, which have led to a lower standard of living. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 13</B> In
Bucharest, 10,000 people rally in support of Emil Constantinescu, who
received 28% of the votes in the Nov. 3 first-round election, against 32%
for President Iliescu. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 17</B> Emil
Constantinescu becomes Romania's President with 53% of the votes. Mr.
Constantinescu's victory creates a totally new political alignment in
Romania--the only country in Central and Eastern Europe to have elected
governments of former Communists repeatedly since 1989. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 18</B>
Saying that “Romania comes back now to the great concert of a
democratic Europe,” President Constantinescu announces that economic
reform is the main priority and that the austerity program that he intends
to carry out will start “with austerity for people at the top.”
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>EASTERN
EUROPE </I></B></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Belarus
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 18</B>
After threatening to step down unless President Aleksandr Lukashenko
cancels a Nov. 24 referendum that could grant the President almost
absolute power, Prime Minister Mikhail Chigir resigns when Mr. Lukashenko
insists that he has no plans to cancel the voting. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 22</B>
Worried about the crisis within neighboring Belarus, Russia attempts to
broker an agreement between President Lukashenko and his opponents. But
Belarus's parliament refuses to endorse the compromise, saying that it
leaves Mr. Lukashenko with “the upper hand.” Under the
compromise, the referendum's results would not be binding but parliament  would
have to end its bid to impeach Mr. Lukashenko. Belarus announces the
shipping of its last nuclear warheads to Russia. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 23</B>
President Lukashenko says that the referendum to expand his powers will be
binding. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 24</B>
President Lukashenko goes ahead with the referendum, sparking fears that
Belarus, a small nation of 10 million people, is heading back toward a
Soviet-style dictatorship; he also confirms that the last nuclear missiles
will be sent to Russia within a week. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 25</B>
Although the Speaker of Parliament, Semyon Sharetsky, calls the referendum
“a farce,” President Lukashenko declares himself the victor and
moves to expand his power. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 26</B>
Parliament splits as 112 members out of 199 vote in support of President
Lukashenko to make the results of the referendum binding and set up their
own assembly. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 27</B>
Pro-Lukashenko deputies abolish the old parliament and approve the
creation of a new lower house. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 28</B>
President Lukashenko signs a new Constitution that gives him control of
all branches of government and extends his term by two years to 2001.
Denouncing opposition deputies as traitors, he posts guards outside their
building. He also reiterates his opposition to NATO's planned expansion.
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Russia
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 2</B>
President Yeltsin's daughter, Tatyana Dyachenko, has become his “closest
confidante and adviser,” acting as a guardian of the President's
health and image. Without political experience until she joined her
father's reelection campaign, Mrs. Dyachenko has emerged as one of the
most powerful people in Russia. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 4</B> Paul
Tatum, an American businessman involved in a dispute over control of the
Radisson-Slavyanskaya Hotel--one of Moscow's best-known hotels--is shot to
death in Moscow by an unknown assailant. Although businessmen have
frequently been killed in Russia, the slaying of foreign businessmen is
rare. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 5</B>
President Yeltsin undergoes a successful heart operation. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>NY Times, Nov. 9</B>
One quarter to one third of all Russian consumer goods are imported into
the country by about 10 million Russian “shuttle traders” who
earn a living by flying between Russia and Turkey, southern Europe,
Poland, China, and South Korea and buying low-quality goods that they
resell in street markets all over the former Soviet Union. Shuttle trading
has become a $10 billion import business. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 10</B> A
bomb explodes at a Moscow cemetery, killing 13 and wounding dozens more.
The explosion underscores the role of organized crime in Russia. There are
at least 500 criminal organizations in Moscow alone. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 15</B> The
Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets publishes a transcript of a taped
meeting in which President Yeltsin's chief of staff, Anatoly Chubais,
plots to cover up evidence of illegal campaign spending during the
presidential campaign. Mr. Chubais, who denies any involvement, accuses
his ousted rival in the Kremlin, former chief of presidential security
Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Korzhakov, of planting fake evidence. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 16</B> An
explosion destroys a building housing Russian military officers in the
southern region of Dagestan, killing 32 people. Since Dagestan borders
Chechnya, officials suspect Chechen rebels of causing the explosion.
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Russia/Chechnya
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 23</B>
President Yeltsin orders the removal of all Russian forces from Chechnya,
to be completed by Jan. 27 when Chechnya holds elections to choose a new
president and legislature. In a concession to Chechen rebels, a small
military force that was to remain permanently stationed in Chechnya will
be stationed in the North Caucasus across the border. Also, Russia and
Chechnya sign an economic cooperation agreement that will restore trade
and communications by December. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Ukraine
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 4</B>
Yevhen Shcherban, a well-known member of parliament and one of Ukraine's
richest men, is shot down by three gunmen. Mr. Shcherban had been “indirectly
accused” of involvement in an assassination attempt on Prime Minister
Pavlo Lazarenko in July. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>THE
FORMER YUGOSLAVIA </I></B></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Bosnia
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 6</B>
Bosnian Serb officials destroy the homes of 96 Muslim families who had
asked to visit their homes in a Serb-controlled area. Under the Dayton
Peace Agreement, refugees have the right to return to their pre-war homes
but, so far, no refugees have been able to actually return despite the
presence of 50,000 peacekeeping forces. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 7</B> A
European intelligence report says that the Bosnian government is smuggling
heavy artillery weapons into Bosnia through the Croatian port of Ploce in
violation of the Bosnian peace agreement. NATO officials fear that the
Bosnian Muslims are trying to stockpile arms in order to gain the
advantage if the war resumes in Bosnia. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 9</B> The
newly elected Bosnian Serb president, Biljana Plavsic, announces on Pale
television the dismissal of Gen. Ratko Mladic, the military commander
indicted for war crimes during the Bosnian war. She cites international
opposition to the general as making it impossible for him to remain. Maj.
Gen. Pero Colic, who is replacing Gen. Mladic, says that he supports the
peace agreement. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 10</B>
Eager to assert control over their army, Bosnian Serb political leaders
swear in new military commanders, in effect sealing the decision announced
by President Biljana Plavsic. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 11</B>
Hundreds of Muslims storm a village near Koraj in northeastern Bosnia to
reclaim their former homes in an area now held by Bosnian Serbs. American
and Russian peacekeepers quell the fighting. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 12</B> A
second fight erupts between Muslims and Serbs but NATO forces intervene to
break it off, suggesting how essential NATO troops may be in preventing
war. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3">In Paris, European
officials and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher meet with
representatives of Bosnia's three ethnic groups to “chart a course
toward peace.” They urge Bosnia's Serbs to respect the peace
agreement and allow refugees to reclaim their homes. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 14</B> In
order to punish Bosnian Muslim officials for inciting civilians to
violence against Bosnian Serbs, U.S. peacekeepers raid a Bosnian army camp
and confiscate weapons, but they are attacked in turn by Muslim rioters.
</FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3">European and U.S.
officials warn the leaders of Bosnia's three ethnic groups that they will
stop providing economic aid after two years if peace has not taken hold by
then. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 15</B>
President Clinton announces that the U.S. is prepared to keep a force in
Bosnia for an additional 18 months. While the American contingent is
currently about 14,000 troops, the new force would have a limited mandate
and would be reduced to about 8,500, with full withdrawal planned for June
1998. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 17</B>
Supporters of Gen. Ratko Mladic, who was dismissed as the Bosnian Serb
military commander, seize a television transmission tower. (The Bosnian
Serb television is allied with President Plavsic.) </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 17
(reported in NY Times, Nov. 19)</B> NATO officials agree that up to 30,000
troops (including 8,500 U.S. troops) will stay in Bosnia after the mandate
of the current force of 60,000 expires on Dec. 20. Final approval for the
new force is due in early December when NATO defense and foreign ministers
meet in Brussels. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 19</B>
Acting under U.S. pressure, the Bosnian government dismisses Hasan Cengic,
the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Bosnian and Croat Federation and a “fervent
Muslim nationalist with very close ties to Iran.” American officials
had made Mr. Cengic's departure a requirement for the delivery of $100
million of U.S. military tanks, helicopters, and rifles to the federated
Muslim and Croat armies. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 27</B>
Three weeks after Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic dismissed Bosnian
Serb military leader Gen. Ratko Mladic, Gen. Mladic finally steps down but
appoints his deputy, Gen. Manojlo Milovanovic, another officer dismissed
by President Plavsic, to replace him. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 29</B> In
The Hague, the war crimes tribunal hands down its first verdict,
sentencing a low-ranking 25 year-old ethnic Croat to 10 years in jail for
his role in the Bosnian Serb army's massacre of Muslim civilians near
Srebrenica in 1995.  None of the senior military commanders who
issued the orders have been arrested, however. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Croatia
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>NY Times, Nov.
16</B> According to White House officials, Croatian President Franjo
Tudjman is seriously ill and undergoing cancer treatment in Washington,
D.C. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>NY Times, Nov.
17</B> U.N. officials report that the Croatian government has set up “bureaucratic
roadblocks” intended to deny Serbs legal status in Croatia. With
about 150,000 Croatian Serbs living in Eastern Slavonia—a region
taken over by rebels backed by Serbia--the U.N. officials warn that, when
their mandate expires in July and Croatia regains control of the region,
these Croatian Serbs could be forced to flee to Serbia. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>NY Times, Nov.
18</B> President Tudjman's grave illness is causing Western diplomats to
worry that a powerful group of extreme nationalists, centered around
Defense Minister Gojko Susak, might take over. These nationalists are
against the idea of democracy and the Muslim-Croat Federation in Bosnia
that was brokered by the U.S. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 20</B> The
Croatian government announces that it will close Radio 101, the last
independent radio station, for being “too politicized” (Radio
101 has been critical of President Franjo Tudjman). Six thousand people
protest the decision in a spontaneous political rally in Zagreb. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 21</B>
Although the government reverses its decision to close Radio 101, over
100,000 people keep demonstrating. The government controls both radio and
television, and three of the four national newspapers. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Serbia
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 3</B>
President Slobodan Milosevic, who cannot run for the presidency again (his
second and final term as Serbian President ends at the end of 1997), is
intent on retaining the control he has exercised over the country for the
past nine years. Mr. Milosevic increasingly governs Serbia in tandem with
his wife, Mirjana Markovic, who heads a party allied with his own
coalition, led by the Socialist Party of Serbia. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 17</B>
Zajedno, an opposition coalition composed of four parties, claims victory
in municipal elections and warns the leftist block, composed of Mr.
Milosevic's Socialists and the neo-Communists of Mirjana Markovic, against
trying to tamper with the vote. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 24</B>
Despite protests by the opposition, President Milosevic annuls the
opposition's victory in local elections. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 25</B> In
the largest anti-government demonstration in five years, over 100,000
people block Belgrade's streets. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 27</B>
Ignoring protesters, President Milosevic holds new elections in order to
give his party the victory it failed to obtain at the polls. The
opposition coalition calls for a boycott of the vote. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 30</B> In
the fight against Mr. Milosevic's government, Zoran Djindjic, a
44-year-old articulate opposition leader, has emerged as the possible “new
political power broker in Serbia and Montenegro.” But Western
diplomats are nervous because they are not sure Mr. Djindjic “really
believes in anything other than power.” </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Slovenia
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 11</B>
Liberal Democrats, led by Janez Drnovsek, who was President of Yugoslavia
from 1989 to 1990, win in parliamentary elections. The Liberal Democrats
are eager to be part of the European Union and NATO. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"> <FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>WESTERN
EUROPE / EASTERN EUROPE </I></B></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Chemical
Weapons Convention </I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>NY Times, Nov. 3</B>
The Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the development, production,
stockpiling, or use of chemical weapons worldwide and has been signed by
160 nations, receives its 65</FONT><SUP><FONT SIZE="3">th</FONT></SUP><FONT SIZE="3">
ratification (by Hungary), enabling it to go into force in the spring 180
days later. The treaty will apply to all nations that signed it, whether
they ratified it or not. The United States, China, and Russia have not yet
ratified the treaty. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>France/United
States/NATO </I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 9</B>
French/American relations have soured over the French demand in August
that a European officer take over an important NATO command, Allied Forces
Southern Europe, a post that has always been held by a U.S. admiral.
France has threatened not to reintegrate the NATO military structure if
Washington does not relent. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Russia
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>NY Times, Nov.
15</B> Vimpel-Communications, Russia's leading cellular telephone company,
is about to become the first Russian company to trade on the New York
Stock Exchange, offering investors a chance to buy part of a young company
run by former Soviet military scientists who have reconverted themselves
for the new market economy. The company is known to have “close
connections to the Russian establishment.” </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>Spain/NATO
</I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 14</B>
After 14 years during which Spain was a member of the Alliance without
participating in the NATO command, parliament votes to permit Spain's full
participation in NATO's military structure. The government will now
negotiate for Spain to become a full member of the Alliance. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="4"><B><I>U.S.A./U.N./70
Nations </I></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="left"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="3"><B>Nov. 4</B> The
U.S. introduces in the U.N. General Assembly a nonbinding resolution,
co-sponsored by over 70 nations, that calls for the adoption of bans on
the “transfer, use, production or stockpiling” of land mines.
Land mines kill and maim thousands of civilians in former war zones where
they are difficult to detect and remove. </FONT></FONT></P>
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