BRATISLAVA (SLOVAKIA): Opposition parties have won enough seats in national elections to be able tooust Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar if they join forces as pledged, unofficial results released today showed. The results, based on full but unofficial tallies from all 5,000 precincts in Slovakia, may signal the end of the authoritarian rule that has dominated this country throughout its nearly six years of independence. The central election commission, which released the figures today morning, said they should remain virtually unchanged when official results are released on Tuesday.

SKOPJE (MACEDONIA): US defence secretary William Cohen has signed an agreement establishing southeast European peace force and warned Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic of NATO intervention unless violence stops in Kosovo. Signing the agreement yesterday with Cohen were defence ministers of three other NATO countries -- Italy, Turkey and Greece -- and five prospective alliance members in the Balkans: Macedonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. The new force is not meant for any military intervention, but toplay a humanitarian role, truce keeping, and aid relief, similar to the concept of UN multinational peace forces. Cohen called the signing ``historic'', and said, ``This new multinational peace force holds out hope that we can build a new era.''