This cantonization makes the Palestinians look so impotent."

"I don't understand why there is so much outside opposition to cantonization," Mr. Markovic said.

Zagreb, saying it is concerned for the welfare of Bosnia's Croatian minority, supports cantonization.

Zulfikarpašić's proposition opposed any cantonization of Bosnia.

January 23, Puyango cantonization anniversary.

Testaverde is five seasons into a professional career, a time when the accomplishments of quarterbacks begin to reach an evaluation that leads to Cantonization or unemployment.

This hugely increases the cost of doing business, and contributes to a gradual, stealthy "cantonization" of the West Bank.

Dr. Kouchner caused consternation among foreign diplomats, aid workers and in particular the Albanians this week simply by considering cantonization.

"Dr Kouchner is against cantonization," Ms. Younes said.

"We've always had the fear of cantonization," Mr. Rabbo said, "of territory that would not be contiguous or viable."

For 1910, Playas was incorporated as parish and finally in 1989 reached its separation of the canton Guayaquil and cantonization.

We oppose the forced partition of Bosnia, though we recognize that something on the order of cantonization, or other forms of self-rule, might be necessary.

Mr. Arafat reportedly asserted that the maps represented the "cantonization" of the West Bank and threatened to leave the talks altogether.

Even if a cantonization is rejected there, the American official said, this does not solve the problem of how to get the Serbs out of areas they now hold.

They have given up on Mr. Milosevic's August agreement, and last week in Geneva they proposed, in effect, the cantonization of Bosnia along religious lines.

Mr. Baker "told the Europeans to stop pushing ethnic cantonization of Bosnia," said Richard Johnson, who was the Yugoslav desk officer at the State Department.

The talks broke down on July 28 when Silajdzic unilaterally rejected the proposed EC plan involving the cantonization of Bosnia-Hercegovina [see p. 38832].

The conferees set in motion a new peace process and won universal backing for the right of Bosnia and Herzegovina to exist in its present borders, avoiding partition or "cantonization."

The LDK is also willing to discuss a kind of cantonization &endash; or other models &endash; for those areas, although very few, where Serbs constitute a substantial part of the population.

At the Geneva peace conference on Yugoslavia, leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia presented on Dec. 8 maps for the "cantonization" of the republic along ethnic lines.

While they denounce any "cantonization" of the province into ethnic enclaves, United Nations and peacekeeping officials have allowed the Serbs to concentrate in areas where they are more numerous and feel safer.

A Western official said that Mr. Tudjman was accurately reflecting the views of many European governments, which are pressing for cantonization of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

Despite their stated commitment to Bosnia, Croatian leaders have fueled Muslim fears by negotiating separately with the Serbs over cantonization, fighting to defend only Croatian-populated territories and hampering some arms deliveries to Bosnian forces.

They might have thought that, as Serbian real intentions regarding ethnic cantonization became clear, the West (meaning the United States) would fulfil its promises and would relieve the EC pressure on them to sign the accord.

The Administration and the Bosnian Government strongly oppose the partition policy that Europeans call "cantonization," saying it would reward Serbian aggression and send the wrong message to other armed ethnic groups across Europe and Asia.