The conviction was overturned by an appeals court ruling that the judge had gone too far to ensure an ethnically balanced jury.

Political blood gushed in the 1965 mayoral campaign, when ethnically balanced tickets were still commonplace.

Besides resolving the legislature issue, delegates hope to approve a restructured government and a more ethnically balanced cabinet.

We don't even have an ambassador in Iraq at this critical juncture, when it is so important that an ethnically balanced Iraqi government be formed.

A racially and ethnically balanced pool and, subsequently, jury panel may indeed affect verdicts, he said.

Since then, the trial has been shifted five times among three Florida cities in a search for a racially and ethnically balanced jury.

The groups agreed in August to an ethnically balanced army and legislature but the issues of transitional leadership and a cease-fire remain unresolved.

The federation was even unable to successfully field an ethnically balanced police force to patrol the suburbs and neighborhoods that were handed over by the Serbs.

The United Nations Secretary General hopes for an ethnically balanced transitional government.

Other ethnically balanced commissions are being formed to oversee crucial changes in the country's military and national security procedures and disarmament.