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The New Communist Party of Macedonia has sent a fax message in English and Macedonian to the embassy of South Korea in Belgrade, protesting against the terror against the young communists in Seoul: "Soon, you will not be able to sustain the process sought by the youth in your country and worldwide, and the just punishment will reach your leaders wherever they hide. No evil can defend itself from the organized communist youth."

The Party (the New Communist Party of Macedonia) threatened the Korean establishment that it will "strike powerfully, forcefully and mercilessly upon your (Korean) interests in Macedonia, together with its entire membership and progressively-oriented citizens. The communists from all Balkan countries will do the same under our command."

The Korean diplomats stated to Beta that the threat from Gostivar "is not being taken too seriously," but they would consider additional security measures.

Yugoslav Left Alliance

The news that JUL has expanded its membership in a district, a town or a community is no longer news. The Yugoslav public is going to face geometric progression, the newspapers will register those branches whose membership has doubled, quadrupled, etc. It has already happened in Lebane: Politika’s corespondent has reported that in two to two and a half months the number of members has doubled. A thousand JULists were joined by another thousand...

The number of members in Pozarevac has not tripled, but the new office of the Yugoslav Left Alliance was opened. Two hundred square meters of what used to be the "Dekor" was remodeled with a little help from JUL’s sponsors. Vojislav Pejic, the president of the JUL’s community board, stressed that the JULists were the last to get "their own home" in Pozarevac, but that it was obvious and certainly fair that they did.

On the occasion of the formal opening of the premises Mira Markovic, Ljubisa Ristic, the artist of versatile talents Desimir Stanojevic (comrade Desko), etc were present. The rock music, which has gradually become the official substitute of former marches and songs, was not missing. Under the flag of JUL, the Belgrade rock group "Plavi decaci" (the Blue Boys) expressed its protest against the establishment. Go, go blue power!

Macho-claim

A container full of goods arriving from Japan to Great Britain was returned to the producer. The buyer, a well known chain of British department stores, was not satisfied with the delivered condoms marked "Made in Japan". There were no objections about the Japanese technology, but rather there were many complaints that the condoms were not large enough..

Eggs

At the market in the New Belgrade’s block 44 last weekend, the author found out that four out of ten customers exchanged deutch marks for dinars at the market’s entrance. It is a realistic assumption that at least two more out of the polled ten reached for their foreign currency reserves the same day, either at the market or somewhere else. And one can buy three eggs for one deutch mark. Assuming there are no more fools that flock to deposit money in "high interest savings accounts" (although the assumption might show problematic), the authorities came to the conclusion that the spare national foreign currency can be seized by increasing prices and leaving the price of the deutch mark low, until the last egg gets broken.