YU Merry-Go-Round

The column "Pick of the Week" has become regular in VREME magazine from March 1991. Here are the winners: - "'Politika' is a non-party paper", Zivorad Minovic, "Politika" Editor in Chief. - "Serbs can live without bread, but not without a country!", Radovan Karadzic, leader of SDS (Srbian Democratic Party) in Bosnia - "One should not come out with lies like the one that the Communist Party was transformed into the Socialist Party", Zoran Andjelkovic, the Socialist Party MP. - "Please, gentlemen, now that we have finished with cucumbers and apples, can we proceed with the decision making...", dr. Slobodan Unkovic, former President of the Serbian parliament. - "There were Jews among the ustashe ranks", dr. Franjo Tudjman - "You can kill a Serb only if you shoot his soul", Brana Crncevic, a Serbian nationalist writer and the President of the refugees' organization. - "The Croatians had no literature apart form Serbian literature", Milan Paroski, People's Party MP. - "Democracy is the word which has been infiltrated from the outside to cause new division between the Serbs, even more tragic than the previous ones", dr. Rastislav Petrovic, an expert on genocide. - "Cyrillic is nicer and more practical for computers than the latin alphabet", Danilo Markovic, the Serbian Education Minister - "With God's help, Dubrovnik will next year be the capital of Montenegro and the traditional Dubrovnik summer festival will be held in Niksic (Montenegro)", a Montenegrin reservist. - "Foreign investors from all over the world came to see me, they offered to invest in the Serbian economy, so that there should be no problem with the capital", Dragutin Zelenovic, former Serbian Prime Minister - "We cannot possibly escape the blockade, but we shall pull though" Dragutin Zelenovic.