Police

It is common knowledge that the Serbian police is stronger than the Yugoslav Army (VJ). It is proportionally better paid as well. It is envisioned in the budget of the Republic of Serbia that 480 million dinars of taxpayers' money will be spent on the police, which accounts for 17 per cent of the budget. 300 million will be spent on salaries of employees of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, which is 70 million more than the amount planned for salaries of military personnel. An item called ``special purposes'' which is included in the budget of the Ministry of the Interior (a ``black'' fund for delicate activities such as those abroad and in the Serb lands outside the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, informers' fees and similar costs) equals the sum allotted as help to refugees in the budget of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and amounts to 28.4 million dinars. 57 million dinars will be spent on equipment.

A TIP

All able-bodied men who have an obligation to serve a term in the Yugoslav Army (VJ) and wish to avoid ``this honour and duty'' should take note of the following.

When an army summoner turns up on your doorstep, take the latest issue of (the Belgrade bi-weekly) ``Duga,'' open page 11, find the middle column subtitled ``April 22,'' and towards the bottom of the page read outloud the excerpt from line 8 to 24.

``As far as the war is concerned, the Serbs in Serbia have paid their debt to all wars in the world. The youth does not feel like wearing a uniform, climbing tanks, and going to the front. Serbian mothers have for centuries bowed over the graves of their dead sons, as fathers have over their decorations. Each people, on condition it wishes to survive, must be aware of a historic and genetic limit beyond which war and violence in general cannot be endured. I fear that the Serbian people, primarily this people in Serbia, has reached this limit and it has to begin to feel and behave in a pacifist manner if it wants to exist at all. It has to demonstrate this pacific consciousness now in particular because the war that is now to be avoided is a civil war.''

If the summoner happens to frown and begin badmouthing the pacifists, the Draskovic family, traitors, and the like, then show him the article and the authors name below. It says Mira Markovic (the wife of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic).

Apart from this, the article will provide you with useful information about cosmic powers, solar disturbances, and other prophecies, that warn the Serbian people of its future. Also included is an explanation of the strange red and yellow rain of April 17 in Belgrade: it's because of the desert storm.

PERCENTAGE

The packages of the Adventist Humanitarian Organisation ``Adra'' intended for the citizens of Sarajevo have been halted in Pale for months thanks to the organisation called ``The Committee for Cooperation with Humanitarian Organisations.'' The above mentioned committee, which operates under the auspices of the Government of the Bosnian Serb Republic, specialises in turning out the reasons so that the aid reaches the city in the most difficult way. When it comes to ``Adra,'' the committee eventually remembered that there are Serbs living in Sarajevo as well. It issued a request that the names of addressees be classified according to their nationality in order to make sure that the Serbs in Sarajevo do not receive less than 30 percent of the aid. Since it was difficult to tell, judging only by a name, who is a Croat and who a Serb (or even a Muslim in some cases), ``Adra'' was forced to engage a team of experts comprised of historians and ethnologists. After a several week-long work, the experts concluded that at least one half of the recipients are ethnic Serbs, which is logical since the packages sent through ``Adra'' mostly come from the Serbs who have relatives in Sarajevo. The shipment was then generously given a green light.

A BENEFACTRESS

The U.S. Consulate in Belgrade has recently refused to issue an entrance visa to Biljana Plavsic, the vice-president of the Bosnian Serb Republic, who had planned to visit the Serb diaspora for the purpose of spreading the truth and collecting donations for the Serb cause in Bosnia. Without going into high politics and assessments of how big a threat could Plavisic's presence be to the American interests and security, it is possible to assume that the visa was refused for rather prosaic reasons. She filled the form with false data. In the slot which says ``profession,'' Plavsic wrote ``humanitarian worker.''