Indeed, the army has already violently intervened there using the pretext of ethnic strife between that republic's Croat majority and the Serbian minority -- strife reportedly fanned, if not deliberately fomented, by communist Serbs in the federal government and armed forces as well as in the Marxist republic of Serbia.

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Preliminary results indicate the multi-ethnic Social Democrats have done well in the Muslim Croat Federation, while in Bosnian Serb areas the hardline nationalist SDS appears to be in the lead.

BBC: OSCE praises Bosnia elections

In a country where religious and ethnic animosity is still fresh in everyone's minds, Croat and Bosnian workers are working side-by-side in a relatively relaxed atmosphere, and becoming reacquainted with each other.

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