The World - News from Nov. 2, 1988

At least 500 Communist officials in Yugoslavia’s central republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina will be dismissed soon, the Belgrade newspaper Politika said. Up to one-third of the republic’s 129-member Communist Party Central Committee, as well as its state leaders and representatives in federal bodies, are likely to be replaced, Politika said. Bosnia was shaken last year by Yugoslavia’s biggest-ever financial scandal involving the issue of up to $1 billion worth of false promissory notes by the Bosnian firm Agrokomerc. Scores were jailed and sacked from the party.