WORLD IN BRIEF : YUGOSLAVIA : Serbian Opposition to Boycott Election

Major opposition parties said they will boycott elections next month in Serbia, the biggest Yugoslav republic, because Communist officials rejected demands to change rules on casting and counting ballots. The Dec. 9 voting will be the republic’s first multi-party parliamentary election since the Communist takeover in 1945. But the 12 parties said authorities plan to rig the vote. Serbia’s Communist-controlled Parliament denied requests to allow opposition officials on state-run ballot-counting commissions and to permit some Serbs abroad to vote.