YU Merry-Go-Round

On Tuesday evening January 7, on the news, BRANA CRNCEVIC (Serbian nationalist writer and president of the Serbian Refugee Organization) proved himself to be one of the fiercest fighters for peace by saying that "there is always time for war but there is sometimes no time for peace".

DRAGOS KALAJIC, a painter and a journalist, tells the "Osmica" magazine: "It is a paradox that Hitler showed the greatest respect towards the Serbs of all the Germans by pleading for the neutrality of Yugoslavia in the conflict of the big powers and by offering incredibly favourable conditions which he spelled out in the protocol which caused a coup of the Anglophile generals and democratic politicians of the free mason orientation. Coup of March 27 1941 and mass demonstrations of the Belgraders Hitler understood to be the biggest insult and the proof of the treacherous nature of the Serbs".

LILA RADONJIC, the journalist of the Independent Television Studio B, is the first recipient of this year's award from the recently established fund which carries the name of the famous Yugoslav journalist Jug Grizelj. The awards are being given for the "greatest achievement in investigative journalism with the aim of nurturing friendly relations between people and lifting the barriers between nations", and Mrs. Radonjic was chosen precisely because of her great involvement in the series of programmes entitled "NTV package".

The following names were in the selected group: Nenad Pejic (TV Sarajevo), Milan Milosevic ("Vreme"), Svetlana Lukic (Radio Belgrade), Manojlo Vukotic ("Borba"), Goran Milic ("Yutel") and Milica Kuburovic (Radio B-92).

"KOLIBRI", a childrens'choir from Belgrade, was taken off the New Year programme of Belgrade TV. The children were, namely, supposed to sing Mozart in German, which the ones in charge saw as "being wrong at the time when Germany and Austria are working against Serbia". The programme "Yearning for spring", in which the choir "Kolibri" performs Mozart, Scarlatti and Bach, was shown as an afterthought on Tuesday January 1, at noon, at the time when most of the audience was still in bed.

DESIMIR CANTRAK, a TV journalist, qualified for the slip up of the month by saying: "It was a quiet night at this part of the front since our reporters, owing to the shootings, could not get to the phone".

*Pick of the Week* *

"The people should not suffer because of the vanity of any politician"

Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian president