1.   How ethnic coexistence can occur in Sarajevo is a question that will be answered in due time, and I fear the news will be bad.

2.   More than five years after an agreement signed in Dayton, Ohio, carved Bosnia into two federations, progress toward ethnic coexistence has been tenuous.

3.   Negotiations aim at getting its political parties and armed factions to agree on ethnic coexistence and power-sharing.

4.   Peacekeepers in Bosnia struck a powerful blow for the cause of ethnic coexistence when they raided the Herzegovacka Bank earlier this month.

5.   Peace advocates have had it easier since Milosevic began turning two years ago from supporting the rebel Serbs to backing peace and ethnic coexistence.

6.   But the Serb exodus has turned Sarajevo from a haven of ethnic coexistence into a much more Muslim town.

7.   But with radicals like Kalinic opposed to ethnic coexistence, the Croats and Muslims were likely to vote against him.