The attack came a day before the self-styled parliament of the Bosnian Serbs is to vote again on a peace plan its members have already rejected once.

Dr. Karadzic has said the latest proposal will be submitted to his self-styled parliament for a vote.

His self-styled parliament will vote on the revised plan over the weekend.

The self-styled parliament of Bosnian Serbs is to meet Wednesday to debate the agreement.

Its self-styled parliament approved measures aimed at consolidating the breakaway state and making it a province of Serbia.

"We will even organize a counteroffensive," said the president of the Bosnian Serbs' self-styled parliament, Momcilo Krajisnik.

The pressure on the deputies meeting in their self-styled parliament in Pale this week was intense (see page 39).

The self-styled parliament of the Bosnian Serbs, dominated by hard-liners, is scheduled to vote on the plan on Wednesday.

Thus the Bosnian Serbs, in their self-styled parliament, refused to make even an empty gesture toward the Vance-Owen plan for peace.

Italy's Northern League, which has set up its own self-styled parliament, elected a "shadow government" of the north today in its latest push for secession from the south.