Anticipating the imposition of sanctions, Yugoslav leaders appealed to the Serbian nationalists in Bosnia over the weekend to accept an international mediation team's peace plan.

Yugoslav leaders on Friday failed to coax the 1,300 zinc miners into ending their protest 3,300 feet below ground.

A12 A Yugoslav leader resigned when protesters walked off their jobs and besieged Communist Party headquaters in Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina province.

Yugoslav leaders, including Mr. Cosic, have failed to persuade the Serbs to accept a peace plan drawn up by international mediators.

They have discussed ways to bring Yugoslav leaders to the negotiating table, plans for sheltering refugees and ideas about increasing the weight of NATO's southeastern flank.

Mr. Jovic is among those Yugoslav leaders who, reflecting the war-weary mood of Serbs in Serbia, want the peackeeping plan to proceed.

Yugoslav leaders fear a political and economic crisis could end in the country's disintegration.

The tribunal last May charged him and other Yugoslav leaders with responsibility for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians and the murder of hundreds of others.

Yugoslav leaders reached an agreement today aimed at averting further fighting with Slovenia, promising the independence-minded republic limited control over its border posts.

Yugoslav leaders were indignant.