Shorts

The Son

Tempo sports magazine had an exclusive report in its latest issue headlined Inside Madona At 200 KMH.

The magazine’s car racing section included a number of photos of the Madona disco in Pozarevac (director Marko Milosevic) and a promotion of the Tref sports system. The short captions to the pictures indicated Marko might freeze his driving career because of his new job.

Regular ads in Politika daily for Tempo included a pair of confusing headlines: Tempo in Madona and Like Father Like Son.

Formula

A retired army general, war hero and SPS main board member Petar Gracanin told a ceremony in Lajkovac on the 55th anniversary of the W.W.II uprising in Serbia of the fears the rebels and their children faced and provided a formula to overcome them and win: "The block division of the world, the new world order, breakup of the eastern block, breakup of the former Yugoslavia and creation overnight of new statelets, the civil war in Bosnia, new balance of forces in the world, imposing of the sanctions, isolation of our country, genocide over our people created a situation in which we have to use our knowledge and wisdom to achieve a speedy economic recovery," Gracanin said. "Only united under the wise policies of Slobodan Milosevic, who is respected in the world, can we overcome and win over all difficulties".

City Transport

Mihailo Glavinic, director general of Belgrade city transport (GSP), told Intervju magazine (June 28) how his company was getting spare parts and what problems it faces:

"All producers and merchants know what spares the GSP uses and they send offers to our commercial department. I don’t take part in that job since that department buys the best quality from factories that have been licensed by Mercedes. It’s a deal worth 10 million USD and now, through the abuse of the drivers union, middle men want to jump in to earn a few million dinars quickly. Those businessmen are financing the campaign against the GSP. Besides some union activists they also paid off some reporters who report only the worst."

A week later in Politika, his deputy Djordje Lopicic spoke out:

"The financial situation in the GSP is very difficult since our debts reached 50 million dinars in June. Producers have stopped deliveries of spare parts because we can’t even tell them when we’ll pay our debts".

The Missing

Croatia will release all prisoners of war by August 20, Yugoslav government commission on missing persons chairman Pavle Todorovic said.

Members of the Croatian and Yugoslav commissions on prisoners and missing persons met in Belgrade last week and, as Todorovic said, took a big step forward in solving all immediate issues. He said the FRY commission said they had released all POWs while the Croatians said the release of their prisoners will be completed on August 20.

Dialogue With the Albanians

"We should talk to representatives of the Kosovo Albanians," federal Prime Minister Radoje Kontic said during an economic summit of east and central European heads of state and government in Salzburg. Kontic said a dialogue with the Kosovo Albanians is necessary but rejected any possibility of Albania taking part in solving the Kosovo problem. He was responding to a demand by Albanian President Sali Berisha for the withdrawal of the Serbian police from Serbia’s southern province and three-party negotiations between Serbia, Albania and Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians. "Kosovo is an internal affair. Kosovo was the center of the Serb state in the past, the center of Serb religion and the seat of the Patriarch. There are hundreds of Serb holy shrines there," Kontic said.

Charges

There is sufficient proof of Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic being responsible for genocide and other war crimes in Bosnia," Hague tribunal prosecutor Mark harmon said after a seven day hearing of evidence against the Bosnian Serb political and military leaders. He asked the tribunal to issue international arrest warrants. The tribunal’s decision will be announced on July 11, exactly a year after Mladic’s soldiers marched into Srebrenica.