31.  The current president and a Western favorite, Biljana Plavsic, is trailing the candidate of Serb hard-line parties, Nikola Poplasen, the sources said.

32.  The nomination will be the first test of Nikola Poplasen, who was advised not to propose people from the Serb hard-line parties.

33.  The OSCE decided to punish the ruling Serb party by removing its top three names from the candidate lists.

34.  The ruling Bosnian Croat and Serb parties announced Tuesday that they will boycott elections scheduled for this weekend.

35.  Three days shy of weekend elections, the ruling Bosnian Croat and Serb parties announced on Tuesday that they will boycott the nationwide local ballot.

36.  Trajanov denied involvement of the Yugoslav embassy or Serb political parties in Macedonia.

37.  Ultranationalist Serb party bolts ruling coalition.

38.  Half a dozen Serb political parties have come out in support of Kasagic who was sacked Wednesday by Karadzic, a wanted war criminal.

39.  A UN official who declined to be named, said documents seen by UN workers indictated instructions for the policy had come from the ruling Serb nationalist SDS party.

40.  Bosnian Serb parties did not field candidates in the elections for the parliament of the Moslem-Croat Federation.