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International ■ s ' - ■■■■ ■ pi wtmmKmKmm ■ ■ k ■■■■ yjmmmam k ■■■Hp ■ m mmm Page 10 The Battalion Tuesday, March 23,199! Yeltsin battles hard-liners Russian parliament seeks to limit ruler's emergency power THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin stood firm Monday against hard-liners' efforts to im peach him, and his for eign minister told reporters the Russian president was in a "fight ing" mood. Yeltsin as serted control over the Yeltsin Russian media to safeguard news organizations from a takeover by his foes. His spokesman accused the chief justice of prematurely sup porting parliament's impeach ment effort. The Constitutional Court con vened to weigh the legality of a decree by Yeltsin on Saturday declaring emergency rule and scheduling a referendum for April 25 on his leadership. Before departing for talks in Washington, Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said Yeltsin was in a "fighting" mood despite the death of his mother, Klavdia Yeltsin, over the weekend, the Interfax news agency reported. Thousands of presidential supporters converged on a movie theater in central Moscow for an upbeat rally with top presidential advisers. A steady stream of cold rain kept other rallies in the city small and short. Russian coal miners said they would walk out if the court ruled against Yeltsin. Mikhail Poltoranin, chief of the Federal Information Center, said the president would appeal directly to the working people if parliament tried to block the ref erendum. In Washington, the Clinton administration again offered support for Yeltsin. "Right now. President Yeltsin is the leader of the reform 8 recess," spokesman George tephanopoulos said. "That is not to say there aren't other re formers in Russia as well." Yeltsin released a decree plac ing the media under his protec tion and ordering the Interior Ministry to take "necessary mea sures" to defend information agencies. At the end of an emergency session of the Congress of Peo ples Deputies on March 13, speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov or dered lawmakers to prepare leg islation to put the media under control of parliament. Yeltsin also lashed out at chief justice Valery Zorkin for publicly opposing Yeltsin's speech before the Constitutional Court began to formally review the case Monday. Kostikov said Zorkin's posi tion was "hasty and unilateral" and "contrary to legal ethics." He praised the military for re maining above the political fray, and said support for Yeltsin was growing. After hours of deliberation Monday, the court failed to rule on the constitutionality of Yeltsin's address. A court ruling declaring Yeltsin's actions un constitutional would be a big step toward his impeachment Zorkin said the court would continue its deliberations this week and expressed hope "the president would revise his atti tude to the Constitutional Court and the Congress of People's Deputies." He said that "the road toward a compromise has not been ex hausted. When the road to compro mise is exhausted, then war be gins." Zorkin also proclaimed his impartiality. The Court convened after a vote by the Supreme Soviet leg islature Sunday asking it to re view the legality of Yeltsin's ac tions, which Zorkin earlier had characterized as an attempted coup. Serbs to allow refugees to flee town THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov- ina — The leader of the Bosnian Serbs promised to open air and land corridors on Tuesday to al low thousands of desperate refugees to flee the eastern town of Srebrenica. The leader, Radovan Karadzic, also told the U.N. Security Coun cil that it was not his goal to cap ture the town, one of the few re maining Muslim enclaves in east ern Bosnia. A representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees who just returned from Srebrenica said he feared Serbs were indeed planning a takeover. Interviewed in Sarajevo, UN HCR representative Larry Hollingworth said: "Maybe they'll open a corridor and say, 'Everybody out, or we'll flatten you.' There's nothing to stop them. "I hope to God the Serbs do not go in," Hollingworth added. ^There are 20,000 refugees there, and very few fighters. . . . They will kill thousands of innocent people. It's a tragedy that can be prevented." Despite Karadzic's assurances that Serbs are only trying to halt a Muslim offensive in eastern Bosnia, Hollingworth said Serb at tacks are likely part of a strategy worked out by Bosnian Serb lead ers. Unconfirmed ham radio re ports from Srebrenica on Monday said Serb forces had advanced two and a half miles from the south and cut off a dozen villages, surrounding 10,000 to 15,000 peo ple. Murat Efendic, a Sarajevo- based Srebrenica official, ap pealed for U.N. peacekeepers to go to the area. At the United Nations, peace talks stalled again and a vote was delayed in the Security Council over authorizing military action to enforce the no-fly zone over Bosnia. "Maybe they'll open a corridor and say, 'Everybody out, or we'll flatten you/ there's nothing to stop them." Russia was reluctant to autho rize action against fellow Slavs. Enforcement of the zone would be intended primarily to ground Serbian aircraft and prevent aerial attacks on Muslim villages. Bosnian Serbs strongly hinted they would walk out of the talks if the council calls for military action to ground their aircraft. "The feeling is that time is run ning out on the talks," Fred Eck- hard, a spokesman for mediators Lord Owen and Cyrus Vance, said at a U.N. briefing. The Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA, quoted by Yugoslavian Tanjug agency, said Karadzic orJ dered a corridor two and a hali miles wide to be opened forfivi days, beginning Tuesday. Itquoi ed him as saying relief official! could ask for more time. It said he also ordered hii forces to allow U.N. helicopters it reach Srebrenica with "all human itarian cargoes." The U.N. commander ii Bosnia, Gen. Philippe Morillon has been seeking to open corri dors to Srebrenica. He also has taken up a Serb request for evacu ation of 272 Serbs from the gov ernment-held town of Tuzla,4: miles northwest of Srebrenica. Serbs had made such an evacu ation a condition for allowing fa ther evacuations from Srebrenica Morillon •-•ejected suggestions that the move could be seen as the start of more "ethnic cleansing" to create homogenous regionsin eastern Bosnia. 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