A prep course for the month-long World Cup soccer tournament, a worldwide pheno

claims that 100,000 Bosnian Serbs have been killed in rebel-held territory over 

the course of the war and that at least 150,000 Serbs remain in those areas of B

osnia still under government rule . Those figures , however , are regarded by fo

reign aid agencies and diplomats as somewhat inflated . Considering the number o

f refugees , fatalities and loyalists , Karadzic rules over only about 500,000 B

osnian Serbs , Berberovic argues . However , Sarajevo high school teacher Bozo D

jondovic notes that not all of those in government territory are remaining there

 of their own free will . `` There are a lot of people , and not only Serbs , wh

o can't wait to leave this city , '' says Djondovic , who like all adult men in 

the Bosnian capital is prevented from leaving by a wartime security order . `` I

 still wouldn't go to Karadzic 's side . My family is in Montenegro , and I woul

d go to join them in a minute if I could . It will not be much better there , bu

t it couldn't be as bad as it is here . '' After the Serb Assembly proclaimed it

s aim of restoring Bosnia 's territorial integrity and restated its commitment t

o ethnic tolerance , an anti-nationalist underground movement based in the rebel

 stronghold of Banja Luka contacted the Serbian loyalists in Sarajevo through a 

circuitous network of supporters reaching as far as Australia . `` If there are 

some brave enough to risk contacting us , we have to assume that there are a lot

 of people who don't support Karadzic but are too frightened to show any sign , 

'' says Stevo Latinovic , a Serbian journalist working for Bosnia 's government-

controlled radio .

 LAS VEGAS Sounding like a conservative politician and preacher , Nation of Isla

m leader Louis Farrakhan spoke reproachfully Saturday night of a vain society ``

 where greed , lust and an inordinate self-interest have taken over , '' and sco

lded blacks for not organizing and taking more economic control of their communi

ties . Speaking in Las Vegas , the 61-year-old Muslim leader avoided much of the

 politically explosive language that in the past 10 years has made him a controv

ersial figure and drawn the enmity of a broad spectrum of political and religiou

s leaders . Instead , Farrakhan emphasized his theme of self-empowerment and sel

f-discipline among blacks , urging them to organize economically and socially . 

`` The Polish organize , the Jews organize , '' he said in a speech before 6,000

 at the Thomas & Mack Center at the University of Nevada Las Vegas . `` What is 

wrong with you ? .. . You have been here longer than any racial or ethnic group 

, and you have less to show for it . '' Six days after his former spokesman was 

shot in Riverside , Farrakhan did not comment directly on the ambush , but said 

: `` We live in such a dangerous hour. .. . To hurt people because you disagree 

with them is totally unacceptable in civilized society . '' Farrakhan spent much

 of his speech addressing the much-publicized criticism of him . `` While talk o

f racism and anti-Semitism swirl around my head , I 'm here to let you know that

 calling Farrakhan a racist and a bigot and an anti-Semite is not going to help 

you solve your problems , '' he said to sustained applause . `` I deplore racism

 . I am saying it again : I deplore racism . `` To be a racist , to me , is to b

e one who promotes his or her race as superior to , or better than .. . any othe

r race. .. . That 's wickedness . '' Farrakhan spoke extemporaneously for severa

l hours . In a thundering voice , he railed against depriving other human beings

 of their rights . `` Although I want to see black people uplifted , '' he said 

, `` I will never resort to evil to uplift black people at the expense of others

 . '' He also described the notion of him being against white people as `` silly

 . '' `` We have done nothing to keep white people from being successful . We ha

ve done nothing to keep Jewish people from being successful . We do not marshal 

our energy , time , money or talent to block any individual from achieving their

 talents , '' he said . `` So do not use false labels to describe Louis Farrakha

n . '' Farrakhan 's remarks were dramatically different in tone from those by Kh

allid Abdul Muhammad , who spoke a week ago in Los Angeles . Muhammad , who had 

been suspended as a top aide and spokesman because of anti-Semitic and anti-whit

e remarks during a speech in November , reiterated those sentiments last week . 

Farrakhan who had gotten in trouble in February for saying he basically agreed w

ith Muhammad did not make any direct reference to the shooting of Muhammad in Ri

verside , Calif. , allegedly by an ousted Nation of Islam member . Farrakhan sus

pended Muhammad , 46 , as his senior aide after a speech in which Muhammad calle

d Jews `` the bloodsuckers '' of the black community , criticized the Pope and u

rged the killing of South African whites . Muhammad was shot last week in the le

gs in an ambush in which four of his bodyguards and a bystander were also wounde

d . ( Optional add end ) James Edward Bess , 49 , an ousted minister of the Nati

on of Islam , pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault . Po

lice believe he acted alone . In his speech Saturday , Farrakhan apologized to t

he audience for the stringent security requirements . Everyone in the arena was 

searched with hand-held metal detectors and frisked before being allowed to ente

r . Mindful of his venue , Farrakhan also noted that `` gambling is forbidden in

 the Koran , '' and called Las Vegas `` a city founded in sin . '' He said prepa

id reservations at a hotel were canceled at the last minute , forcing him to mak

e a last-ditch effort to find a room to stay so he could speak . Saying that his

 reservations were canceled because `` they must have found out it was I who was

 coming , '' Farrakhan said : `` Since I 've been here , I have felt like Mary t

rying to find a place to give birth to her baby . ''

 The following editorial appeared in Sunday 's Washington Post : North Korea has

 flagrantly and deliberately broken the rules by which the world is trying to pr

event the spread of nuclear weapons . President Clinton is right to demand sanct

ions , but to be effective , sanctions will require vigorous enforcement by Chin

a , Japan and Russia . Clinton has to build an alliance among a group of countri

es that are all , in varying degrees , unenthusiastic and disinclined to take re

al action . But to fail to respond to North Korea 's transgressions would be hor

ribly dangerous , especially for its neighbors . If the North Koreans can build 

warheads with impunity , they already have missiles capable of reaching Beijing 

, Osaka and Vladivostok . And the risks don't end at the 1,000-kilometer radius 

. The North Koreans have been willing to sell missiles to anyone with cash and m

ight be ready to do the same with warheads . If the world lets their present beh

avior pass without response , it might as well abandon any further attempts to e

nforce the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty where it counts . That will send an 

unambiguous message to Iran , Iraq , Libya and all the other despotisms with lar

ge ambitions and scores to settle . The North Koreans have said they would regar

d sanctions as an act of war . That would be national suicide , but it 's imposs

ible to be sure that they wouldn't attack . The United States has rightly said t

hat the rest of the world can't allow that kind of threat to deter penalties for

 violating a crucial treaty . It is , unfortunately , worth chancing a war to en

force the nuclear rules in North Korea , just as it was worth a war to enforce t

hem in Iraq . In Iraq the United States was able to organize rapidly an alliance

 that drew on some of its longstanding NATO allies in Europe , as well as Arab c

ountries that it had armed or otherwise helped over the years . Building a simil

ar alliance in the Pacific will be much harder . This country has a deep relatio

nship with Japan , but it 's characterized in security matters by Japanese passi

vity reflecting the strain of pacifism in Japanese politics . Russia is in the t

urbulent process of working out an entirely new posture toward this country . As

 for China , it still regards the United States with deep suspicion as an advers

ary if not an enemy . The North Korean nuclear case is the anvil on which Americ

an diplomacy will now try to hammer out this new Pacific alliance . If it fails 

, the costs could be enormous . If it succeeds , it will not only make all count

ries safer , but also will set an impressive precedent for co-operation among wh

at may well be , in the next century , the world 's four most powerful states .

 COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER , France One was a hunter with Indian blood in his veins who

 trapped coyotes and could fix anything mechanical . Another had dark hair and w

ore glasses and remains something of a mystery . Another was a quiet boy who wei

ghed maybe 100 pounds and probably should have leaned a bit more on the trigger 

of his machine gun . For 50 years the three have lain here among thousands of ot

hers , beckoning relatives and friends who wish they had known them better . `` 

I think he said he was married , '' says George Wilson , 73 , of the quiet , thi

n buddy he has come to visit at the American cemetery and memorial for the first

 time in a half-century . Nearly 4,000 visitors are defying chilly weather to pa

ss through this resting place above Omaha Beach for the 50th anniversary of the 

Normandy invasion . The parade includes veterans from other World War II campaig

ns , history buffs , the curious and John Q . Public. For these visitors the whi

te Italian marble crosses and Stars of David symbolize the massive scope of an e

vent that freed Europe and changed history . But for people like Wilson each pie

ce of marble has a face . `` Every chance we got , me and him were together , ''

 says the Rockford , Ohio , farmer here for his first visit since landing near P

ointe-du-Hoc on June 6 , 1944 . `` Probably be my last , '' he says . All day th

e visitors file into a cemetery reception center with names written on scraps of

 paper . A woman opens a fat book and runs her finger down the list on one of th

e pages . The questioners watch until it stops . If the person asking is a relat

ive , an electric cart pulls up to take him or her to the gravesite . A caretake

r wipes the marble face with wet sand from Omaha Beach to bring out the letters 

. Then he takes a snapshot that is given to the relative free of charge . Others

 , for whom the names represent friends , are given locator maps of the burial s

pot amid the 9,386 sites . Then they set off for the last part of a pilgrimage t

hat sometimes started an ocean away . One of the main reasons Wilson returned wa

s to find the grave of his friend Russell Woodward . He was about 20 , didn't sm

oke or drink and liked Red Cross donuts . `` He was kind of like me , '' Wilson 

says . Sometimes for the men who come here the experience is a confrontation wit

h how little they actually knew about someone upon whom they often depended for 

their lives . Even though he and Woodward were good friends , Wilson did not kno

w what his job was before the war or where to locate his relatives . What he doe

s remember is seeing his friend battle a Nazi machine-gun nest . Woodward was ne

w to the gun and peppered the Germans with small bursts instead of a steady stre

am of fire . The enemy knew better . In seconds Woodward was slumped over his gu

n , Wilson says . Sometimes the face on the marble reflects only a photograph . 

Joanne Miller was born after the war and never knew her uncle except as a dark-h

aired man with spectacles in a photo . The Boston woman knows that William Babbi

tt was past draft age and didn't have to go to war but chose to anyway . He was 

hit in the head by a sniper a month after landing on Omaha Beach . This is her f

irst visit to the cemetery , and she wishes she had known him . In a book that r

elatives fill with comments , she simply writes , `` God bless . '' When Harold 

Lucey looks at the cross on his brother 's grave , he sees a stocky hunter who s

hot rabbits and trapped coyotes in rural Nevada . His brother , Raymond , 23 , m

ade it safely ashore on Utah Beach but was killed by shrapnel in mid-July in the

 battle for St. Lo . Raymond , like his brother one-fourth Shoshone Indian , was

 always helping out neighbors when their cars and lawn mowers broke down , and d

espite being his big brother , never shooed him away on his frequent hunting tri

ps . Even after 50 years , Luceycan hardly talk about the loss without being ove

rcome by his emotions . Lucey wants his two grandchildren he brought on the trip

 to know the reason the cross is there . `` I want them to know the reason he di

ed , '' he says . `` It can't be forgotten . It 's that simple . ''

 Traveling the battlefields of Europe , President Clinton got what he called `` 

good news from the home front '' as the unemployment rate dropped sharply from 6

.4 percent to 6 percent in May , the lowest level since 1990 . That wasn't the o

nly good news . During the month 191,000 new jobs were created much less than th

e 285,000 feared on inflation-antsy Wall Street but well over the 170,000 monthl

y rate required for Mr. Clinton to achieve his goal of 8 million new jobs by ele

ction day , 1996 . Financial markets remained calm . The May numbers are likely 

to heat up debate among economists and within the administration about what cons

titutes `` full employment '' the optimum number of jobs that can be filled with

out triggering inflation . In the 1970s , Democrats and labor unionists aimed at

 getting unemployment below 4 percent . But with increased volatility in the wor

k force , as more people move more rapidly to different kinds of jobs , there is

 a growing consensus that 6 percent is the more correct number . If so , the May

 figure ( which is subject to readjustment , probably higher ) would indicate th

at the Federal Reserve Board had it about right by pushing up short term interes

t rates from 3 percent to 4.25 percent in the February-to-May period . The large

r question now is whether further increases will be necessary to keep the econom

y from overheating . On this , the various economic indicators are mixed . Laura

 Tyson , the president 's chief economic adviser , offers as good a diagnosis as

 any when she says the `` economic expansion continues right on track . '' By he

r definition , this would be 3 percent growth rate this year and 2.9 percent nex

t a pattern that leads Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen to say the economy appea

rs stronger than at any time in the past 20 years . Bentsen and Tyson have consi

stently refrained from criticism of the Fed 's interest rate increases while sof

tly suggesting enough is enough . If this is constructive caution , it is clearl

y attuned to the president 's wishes . History shows that while former President

 Carter succeeded in pushing down the unemployment rate from 7.7 percent to 5.8 

percent during his first two years , he also ignited the double-digit inflation 

that led to his defeat in 1980 . That is a pattern President Clinton must want t

o avoid . Politicians exult in job growth for the 8 million currently unemployed

 , but wise ones know that inflation is a curse that affects the entire voting p

ublic . So while Fed chairman Alan Greenspan takes his licks from growth-minded 

Democrats , Clinton seems well and rightly content to let interest rates rise an

d unemployment rates drop to levels where they are in equilibrium . The economy 

seems to be in that pleasant state right now , which is indeed good news from th

e home front .

 RIVERSIDE , Calif. . As story lines go , this one could rejuvenate a flagging s

oap opera : A freshman congressman picks up a known prostitute , parks his car o

n a side street and is caught by police with his pants unzipped . He starts to f

lee but thinks better of it . For five months , the police withhold information 

about the incident and the congressman stonewalls , saying `` nothing happened''

-until the local newspaper sues the city for the police reports . Then the congr

essman confesses to being found `` in an extremely embarrassing situation , '' b

ut says he didn't know the woman was a prostitute , didn't pay for sex and thus 

didn't do anything illegal . He apologizes for his `` inappropriate '' behavior 

and attributes the escapade to his father 's suicide and the breakup of his 15-y

ear marriage . He asks for understanding , notes he has sought counseling and ge

ts on with his reelection campaign . Do the voters believe he has told the whole

 truth ? Will they forgive him ? Find out Tuesday night after the polls close in

 the California primary and The Days of Ken Calvert 's Life continue . Calvert ,

 R-Calif. , a real-life lawmaker who barely won his seat two years ago , is tryi

ng to fend off a Republican challenger and recover from a damaging scandal that 

has made him the subject of jokes in his own community and good material for Jay

 Leno as well . While President Clinton grapples with the future political conse

quences of the Whitewater affair and a pending sexual-harassment lawsuit , at le

ast a dozen members of Congress have seen their own careers jeopardized by eithe

r personal indiscretions , alleged ethical breaches or allegations of criminal m

isconduct . The most powerful , Rep. Dan Rostenkowski , D-Ill. , was indicted la

st week on 17 felony counts of fraud and embezzlement and forced to surrender hi

s Ways and Means Committee chairmanship . He maintains he is innocent . Although

 the number of scandalized lawmakers is relatively small , and the controversies

 surrounding them vary in severity , each new episode adds a layer to the public

 's deep suspicions about their politicians . `` Nobody feels good about who 's 

representing them anymore , '' said Sande Burman-Wilson , a mortgage lender inte

rviewed at a candidates ' forum in Riverside . `` It used to be a highly touted 

kind of job . '' Calvert 's race in western Riverside County is being watched na

tionally as a barometer of how voters respond to tainted incumbents . The Capito

l Hill newspaper Roll Call named Calvert the most vulnerable House member facing

 re-election . Democrats , who came within 519 votes of beating Calvert two year

s ago , are salivating at the thought of a rematch this year . Republicans , eve

n some of those who support him , are nervous about the general election should 

Calvert dispose of his conservative GOP challenger , who has strong support from

 evangelical Christians . Interviews conducted in Calvert 's district last week 

indicate several strains of dissatisfaction among voters . Some are upset with C

alvert , believing he exercised poor judgment and then tried to cover up his act

ions . Other voters are upset with the news media for what they see as too much 

scrutiny of politicians ' private lives . Still others have grown so accustomed 

to the transgressions of elected officials that they have tuned out . As they se

ek another term , lawmakers whose political reputations have been jeopardized by

 controversy are employing varying strategies to combat their problems and impro

ve their images . Rep. Walter R. Tucker III , D-Calif. , reportedly a target of 

an FBI bribery investigation of Compton city government , has portrayed himself 

as the latest victim of a `` pattern of attacks on African-American politicians 

'' that is a carryover from Republican administrations . A former Compton mayor 

and member of a prominent political family , Tucker took out an ad in a communit

y newspaper circulated among black churches proclaiming his innocence and planti

ng the notion of a racially motivated conspiracy . Rep. Martin R. Hoke , R-Ohio 

, who was caught on videotape referring to a TV producer 's `` beeeg breasts '' 

and denied an allegation by a law firm 's secretary that he pinched her on the t

high , has been meeting periodically with leaders of women 's groups in his dist

rict . At their urging , he recently held a town hall meeting on women 's issues

 . Rep. Joseph M. McDade , R-Pa. , who has been under indictment since 1992 for 

allegedly taking more than $ 100,000 in bribes and illegal gratuities , said , `

` There 's no strategy . I 've announced I 'm innocent and fighting the charges 

. Plain and simple , my people don't believe it . '' McDade also reminds voters 

that he is the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee , a lawm

aker with seniority . `` The guy is bringing home bacon , '' said a Democratic o

fficial , who acknowledged being unable to mount a serious challenge against McD

ade . Sen. Charles S. Robb , D-Va. , trying to address lingering questions about

 his personal life , released an extraordinary five-page letter before announcin

g his re-election campaign . In it , he denied ever using drugs but admitted to 

behavior `` not appropriate for a married man . '' Calvert , a 40-year-old real 

estate developer from a prominent Riverside County family , tried the Robb appro

ach , releasing a statement on April 22 to explain his actions after midnight on

 Nov. 28 , 1993 . That is when Corona police , checking on a driver they suspect

ed was asleep or unconscious , found Calvert in a parked car with Lore Lindberg 

, a twice-convicted prostitute with a heroin habit . His campaign manager says p

olling indicates the episode is not hurting Calvert and shows him with a big lea

d over S. Joseph Khoury , a finance professor at the University of California at

 Riverside who finished second in the 1992 GOP primary .

 ANAMOSA , Iowa Richard Schwarm , Iowa 's Republican Party chairman , describes 

Rep. Fred Grandy , R-Iowa , as a `` risk-taker . '' He earned that reputation in

 1986 , when he returned to his home state and recaptured for the GOP a House se

at Democrats had held 12 years . That made Grandy , an actor whose best-known ro