Klara Mandic

Year and Place of Birth: Unidentified Jewish camp in Italy, 1944. Adopted by Serbian family Mandic. Grew up in Belgrade.

Nationality: Jewish 101%, as she says.

Nickname: Big Mamma (which she got on occasion of fraternization of some Serbian and Jewish municipalities during ``The Week of Serbia in Israel,'' the manifestation that she invented, organised and carried out, with full support of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevicas she later boasted.)

Profession: She was a dentist for 24 years. Then ``she cried all night on the horns of a dilemma between medical profession and social work'' and opted for social work.

Her activities as a social worker: She spreads truth about the Serbian people, writes letters to Lord David Owen and other politicians worldwide, organizes relief supplies for Serb fighters in Bosnia and Serb Krajina, and as one patriot noticed, ``Stirs lion hearts in Serb chests.''

Additional activities: Secretary of the SerbianJewish Friendship Association, member of the managing board of the ``Captain Dragan'' Foundation, co president of the antiwar, etc. society ``White Rose,'' advisor to Dafina Milanovic, and also active in the Jewish municipality.

Career: Started in stormy 1968. Joined the students' protest (some say ``fulfill the task''), met rebellious professors and began socializing with Ljuba Tadic. Since then has been a full member of what used to be calledthe Belgrade dissident circle. Got introduced to prominent intellectuals and vice versa. She is one of those who embraced Vojislav Seselj after he got out of prison.

Family situation: A family villa in Belgrade, two sons and two marriages in the past.

Klara and parties: Spent some time in the Democratic Party, later joined the Serbian Democratic Party in Serbia, ran as its candidate in 1992 elections and failed.

Friends: Finds them quickly and forgets them as quickly. According to the list of guests at her son's wedding reception, the following can be named: Goran Hadzic, Momo Kapor, Milorad Pavic, Ljuba Tadic, Tomislav Karadjordjevic, Cadik Danon, David Salamon, Captain Dragan... She is close with Radovan Karadzic, Biljana Plavsic, Brana Crncevic, Momcilo Krajisnik. She introduced the majority of them to Dafina, who helped them and everything ended with the famous ``Dafina's list'' and the scandal.

They say about her: According to one version Dafina Milanovic said Klara's eyes have got ``a cold reptilian gaze.'' Apart from the eyes, most frequently mentioned are her love affairs. The papers claim that there is no prominent politician who hasn't passed through her bedroom, which Klara described as ``dirty digging in her boudoir.''

Resume: ``I am not happy because I haven't found the man with whom I'll grow old. But, no wonder. There isn't such a man who could put up with a women active as I am. I am not fit for marriage, although I tried.'' (Klara Mandic in women's magazine ``Nova Nada,'' 1993)