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Show WORLD STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1993 — ...NEWS EDITOR: 625-4213 Bosnian Serbs cast ballots on peace plan ZVORNIK, Bosnia-Herzegovina unded by pro-Serb mus mbols, Bosnian Serbs cast ballot day on a U.N.-backed peace G un r if heir leaders as t ia ) ail Ci idl » , t ue ~ ¢ Z widely preal cc y icn ‘rT n “ avec : u oe rder w as a WOU S Seorh - rs wer Kpected ae s gs n r ne B oi people day b gr I The other ballot asked if the voter \ ed to establish an independent state wi the right to associate with other Serbian parts of the former Yugoslavia Maps of Bosnia-Herzegovina were d played showing the 70 percent of Bosnia by Serbs since they : eu ferendum ends Sunday After presenting their identific cards, voters were given two ballots. One asked for a “yes” or “no” on the plan which calls for dividing Bosnia among the three warring factions: Bosnian Serbs, ethnic Croats and Muslims ured \ S S s Se undreds " ™« red tra reets ir uA snu 44 udsp g pian Pant (AP ‘ S « n Zv who a S hailed hin On Friday, Se r stalked out of a meeting of Serb and Yu slav legislators who endorsed the pé plan in aneffort to pressure Bosnian Sert to follow suit Theplebiscite was bein Bosnia under Serb ¢ tion from the intern nal ¢ and Serb-led Yugoslavia. the B Serbs’ chief patrons rebelled ordered Pres c nst Bosnia’s secession from Yugoslavia February 1992. “This is ours,” Sald a note on the maps. Bosnian Serb hard-liners complain the }.N.-backed peace plan calls for them1 ede too muchterritory and that it would The Associated Press Members of the RAID police squad carry children who were rescued from the Commander Charcot School. France relieved as hostage drama ends PARIS (AP) — One misstep and six were guided by one goal — to get the 3- little girls and their teacher could have and 4-year-old hostages freed unharmed. been blasted apart by the dynamite booby traps of their masked captor. But in a span of three seconds Saturday, the self-anointed “Human Bomb” “Our principles were to do nothing that would put the children and teacher at risk, and in no case tolet the man take the children along on a getaway,” Pasqua said. was dead and France’s most wrenching hostage nightmare over. Elite police raiders darted into a nursery school classroom, whisked the girls and the teacher to safety after a 46-hour ordeal and fired three silencer-hushed bullets into the head of Eric Schmitt, the gunman who threatened to set offhis dynamite if a huge ransom wasn’t paid “The madman is dead. The law has triumphed,” Interior Minister Charles Pasqua announced moments later. Police found a total of 21 sticks of dynamite — planted at the doors and corners of the classroom and on Schmitt, who was described throughout the ordeal ac nolite aS polite yet coolly unwavering. The explosives were rigged to explode in three separate blasts The end of the standoff began Schmitt began to doze Authorities used a hidden camera to watch him nod off. Members of France’s One RAID member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they aimed for Schmitt’s head because of the dynamite on his body. The children clutched to the officers as they led them to safety. Schmitt, 42, demanded 100 million francs — $18.5 million — in exchange for the hostages’ freedom. Hepresented police with elaborate escape plans, complete with diagrams and demands for live TV coverage. He apparently planned to iCT use the children as shields Police said Schmitt, a Frenchman born in Algeria, had bombed a parking lot in Neuilly-Sur-Seine on May 8. No one was hurt, but a tract claiming responsibility for the blast was signed “HB.” as were “My joy is more than profound,” said Nicolas Sarkozy, a member of the four- with hostage crises, entered the class- man negotiating team and mayor of room at 7:25 a.m. (1:25 a.m. EDT) to documents written by the hostage-taker Pasqua said that stood for “Human Bomb.” Neuilly-Sur-Seine, the affluent suburb sneak out the hostages. Schmitt awoke and was shot dead. He had never re- and seized 21 children and teacher, Laur- moved his mask ence Dreyfus, where the school is located. Throughout the standoff, authorities RAID squad, specially trained to deal On Thursday, he entered the school 30 deny them contiguous areas of Bosnia. “I’m going to vote as it’s proper — against Vance’s plan and only for the Serbs,” said Milica Miladinovic, dressed in black for her brother who she said wa killed by Muslim-led government forces Cyrus Vance, a former Secretary of State, is a co-author of the peace plan that has been endorsed by ethnic Croats and Muslims. “It’s us or the Muslims, we will never live here together again,” said voter Mira ject the plan, debate over Western militar intervention will likely intensify between the United States and its Western allies. Yugoslavia, squeezed by U.N. sanctions imposed because of its military support for the Bosnian Serb rebels, recently began supporting the peace plan. But Karadzic told reporters in Pale, where the Bosnian Serbs have their military headquarters, that they must not bow to pressure. 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