Drinking on Duty

Due to uncontrolled use of alcohol in the units and command centers of the First Krajina Corps and in order to protect lives and raise combat readiness I am ordering:

1. Unit commanders to investigate the use of alcohol both in command centers and units.

2. Introduce measures to ban the bringing in and use of alcohol in command centers and units and sales at combat positions. Control checks to be carried out in the unit centers and combat positions.

3. Adopt disciplinary measures against individuals who use alcohol, especially officers, and undertake cures in cases of alcohol dependency.

4. Officers who use excessive amounts of alcohol to be dismissed from current duties and posted to less responsible duties. Anyone who causes loss of life, wounding or other negative effects in their units will undergo military disciplinary measures.

5. Document cases of woundings and deaths due to excessive use of alcohol to date. Include medical findings on the level of intoxication of the dead and wounded in those cases.

6. Morale and religion officers as well as medical officers will undertake education programs with the aim of suppressing alcoholism.

7. Unit commanders are directly responsible to me for carrying out these orders. Commander ColonelGeneral Momir Talic (published by the Bosnian Serb paper ``Krajiski List'')

Names and Feasts

Two Banja Luka schools were consecrated recently. Their names were also changed from names of Second World War partisans to figures from Serb history, following the widespread fashion of namechanging in the Bosnian Serb Republic. Both consecration ceremonies included feasts for over a thousand guests. But it was only over the meal that the teachers recalled that they had received no salaries this year just four aid packages.

Indians in Vojvodina

Prime Minister Kontic visited Kikinda recently where one of his hosts told him that all they needed were American Indians to make their railways look like the Wild West raillines.

The Indians invaded the Vojvodina parliament where MP Istvan Backulin said: ``As regards the Indians, I see that the ones in Kanjiza even removed the wooden posts by the tracks.''

Parliament documents show that the redskins are hard workers. In the past 10 years some 600 kilometers of rail track has been abandoned in Vojvodina.

The Indians are here, we just don't know it yet.

Wheat

The ruling majority in the Vojvodina parliament urged MPs to adopt a report on preparations for the harvest and caused an uproar among the opposition.

The opposition recalled that the parliament almost unanimously adopted a recommendation for wheat prices to stand at 0.25 Dinars a kilogram while the Socialists are now protecting the 0.18 Dinar price ordered by the federal administration.

Most speakers at the session were from the Vojvodina government while the parliamentary majority wisely kept quiet in the stifling heat. They didn't even blink when MP Pendic told them they would have voted for a price of 0.10 Dinars.

The debate ended when Prime Minister Perosevic reminded them that they were in the provincial parliament which had no influence on anything. Opposition MP MIlosev stood up to note that since the parliament of Yugoslavia's largest wheat growing region can't even decide the price of wheat it would be better to debate the price of accommodation on the Montenegrin coast.

ABBA

The tropical heat wave is not affecting only Belgrade residents but journalists as well. Last Monday, the Belgrade daily ``Politika Ekspres'' published a front page photo of Sweden's ABBA pop group saying they would perform soon in Belgrade. ABBA has not performed for over 10 years but that didn't stop the daily from inventing the interesting story. The paper asked ABBA to get together and come to Belgrade in the name of peace. ``Politika Ekspres'' believes the idea is feasible and has already imagined how nice it would be to hear their greatest hits in Belgrade.

We're expecting new reports impatiently. Maybe we could even get the Beatles to perform here.