The World - News from June 28, 1987

Yugoslavia’s Communist leaders cut short a debate on ethnically torn Kosovo province, and police then broke up a protest outside Parliament by hundreds of Serbs, who say the region’s Albanians are terrorizing them. An official statement said a session of the Communist Party Central Committee, scheduled to last two days, ended after just 16 hours of debate on ways to ease tension between Kosovo’s 1.7 million ethnic Albanians and 200,000 Serbs and Montenegrins. A summary of a resolution adopted at the session, carried by the official Tanjug news agency, contained no concrete steps likely to satisfy Serbs, who want a sweeping purge of Kosovo leaders.