SRNA REVIEW OF EVENING NEWS, Aug. 16, 1996

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From: Mirjana Petrovic <almirja@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu>

SARAJEVO - The vicepresident and acting president of Repub- lika Srpska (RS) Biljana Plavsic, talked today in Pale with the UN secretary general's special envoy Igbal Riza on the holing of the upcoming elections in RS and the Croat-Muslim Federation. The counterparts were in agreement that the efforts should have been made in order to hold elections peacefully and without ten sions.

VLASENICA - The RS prime minister Gojko Klickovic put in function the 110 kV longdistance power plant set up between Konjevic Polje and Vlasenica. "I am pleased for I am witnessing another one working victory, made in the time when we were under enormous political and economic pressure", stated Klickovic.

SARAJEVO - The vicepresident of the RS Government for public works, Velibor Ostojic, talked with representatives of Bratunac Municipality of problems of accommodation of refugees and displaced person. The priority task in this area is disband ing of all collective centres by beginning of the heating season, first of all schools which are due to begin with work by mid September.

SARAJEVO - The RS Electoral Commission concluded, at its session in Pale, that the security of voters from RS and those to arrive from abroad must be improved. The Commission president Svetislav Stanojevic, stated following the meeting that freedom of movement will be established and security guaranteed for voters to come freely to polling places to vote and safely return to their present places of habitation.

BEOGRAD - The rector of the Banjaluka University and the candidate of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) for vicepresi- dent of RS, Proff. Dragoljub Mirjanovic, stated that he is con vinced that Biljana Plavsic would be the president of the Repub lic. In an interview for tomorrow's issue of the weekly "Javnost", he stressed that he was confident that the SDS would win in RS, for it was the best choice.

BANJALUKA - The vicepresident of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) and president of the Party's Municipal Board in Banjaluka, Borivoje Sendic, dismissed accusations by some politi cal that they were not allowed a free access to the media in Republika Srpska (RS). Sendic considers that in the preelection campaign "the biggest discrimination was made towards the SDS, which was presented in a negative light in the socalled inde- pendent media, without being offered a possibility to present itself though the programmes intended for the presentation of parties and candidates".

PARIS - The World Congress of the Serbs warned at the ways of voting of those to come form the Federation in the RS to vote, agreed to between the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic and the vicepresident of the Croat-Muslim Federation Ejup Ganic. Founding its assertion upon an information received from reliable sources, the Congress emphasises that the voters from the Federa tion will be instructed to vote for the levist puppet parties, directed by the levist centre in Belgrade.

SARAJEVO - The UN Sarajevo Office pointed out at a series of serious attacks against leaders of the opposition parties in the NW of the Federation of B-H, in the Muslimcontrolled territo- ries. "A month before the general elections, the UN police regis tered three serious cases of intimidation of members of opposi tion parties", stated UN spokesman Aleksander Ivanko.

SAMAC - The US company USAID accepted to, under mediation of IFOR, finance the reconstruction of the Samac clinic, in addition to two projects of reconstruction of the power network in Samac Municipality, all amounting to US $ 50,000.

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