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BOSNIA: BIJIANA PLAVSIC PROFILE

(11 Sep 1996) Serbo-Croat/French/Nat Biljana Plavsic has become the key figure in the Bosnian Serb election campaign since the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was forced to stand down. Plavsic -- Karadzic's successor as head of the Bosnian Serb party, the S-D-S -- was one of his closest aides throughout the war. Just as hard-line as Karadzic and a strong advocate of a separate Bosnian Serb state, Plavsic has earned the nick-name the Iron Lady. A-P-T-V has this profile. Biljana Plavsic -- Radovan Karadzic's appointed heir as leader of the main Bosnian Serb party, the S-D-S -- on the campaign trial. The 66-year-old politician was a major player in the three-and-a-half year Bosnian war. Now she's propounding her vision of a separate Bosnian Serb state from the election platform. A senior Karadzic aide, Plavsic was thrust into the role of party leader when Karadzic was forced to step down earlier this year. Karadzic has been indicted for war crimes by the Hague Tribunal and is banned from participating in the elections under the terms of the Dayton Peace Accord. His replacement is a renowned anti-Communist born into a family of wealthy merchants and intellectuals in Tuzla in northern Bosnia. She began her career as a biology professor at Sarajevo university. After graduating from Zagreb university in the 1970s, she received a fellowship to the U-S, where she spent two years lecturing and doing research. It was in 1990 that Plavsic became an activist in Karadzic's S-D-S party in Bosnia. She could be seen at Karadzic's side, as the former psychiatrist incited Bosnian Serbs to rebel against the central Bosnian government in Sarajevo. And she remains an out-spoken advocate of a separate Bosnian Serb state. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) "You know that the relations within the Bosnian federation, which is a state that was established forcefully, are not so good... I'm not sure that the forthcoming meeting, so called "mini-Dayton" will not tackle the option of the possible split-up of Bosnia, I mean threeways." SUPERCAPTION: President Biljana Plavsic Relations with Serbia's Communist-turned-nationalist Serbian President Milosevic have not been so warm. It was Milosevic who first instigated Serb rebellions in both Bosnia and Croatia but later reversed and pressured Bosnian Serbs to accept the Dayton peace deal. Plavsic was the first to publicly protest Milosevic's giving up of the once common dream of uniting all Serbs in the old Yugoslavia in one state -- a "Greater Serbia". At a meeting in 1993 she blatantly refused to shake hands with him. Milosevic retaliated by banning her from Serbia, where she had spent the war in a comfortable apartment provided by the government. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...