This Week, July 2 - July 8 1998

Thursday July 2, 1998
Pristina - Dragan Terzin, a Serbian police officer, is wounded when his police checkpoint on the Decane-Djakovica road comes under fire
Belgrade - Dusan Djordjevic, the editor in chief of Belgrade Radio's channel one, becomes the new managing director of the Yugoslav News Agency TANJUG.
Podgorica - The black market exchange rate of the German mark rises. It sells at 7.2 dinars and buys at 6.8 dinars per mark.
Belgrade - The temperature in most of Serbia soars to 38 degrees Centigrade, two people in Belgrade die of heat shock.

Friday, July 3
Pristina - An explosive device goes off early in the morning in Dardanija. No casualties reported in the terrorist attack, but several cars are destroyed in the explosion. Police say a remote control device was probably used.
Kijevo - Serbian police recapture Kijevo after the village was besieged by armed ethnic Albanian terrorists for two months.
The Vatican - Pope John Paul II sings a decree declaring Ante Pavelic a martyr. Stepinac was an archbishop in Zagreb, Croatia during the Second World War and is believed to be responsible for the deaths of many prisoners in the Jasenovac concentration camp.
Pristina - Twenty armed police officers intrude into and shut down Contact Radio, an independent Pristina radio station.

Saturday, July 4
Lyon, France - The Croatian national football team qualifies for the World Cup semi finals after a 3-0 destruction of Germany.

Sunday, July 6
Sombor - Slavko Dokmanovic, a former Vukovar mayor who committed suicide  in The Hague's Scheveningen jail, is buried in his hometown. Dokmanovic was awaiting trial for his alleged participation in war crimes.
Belgrade - The black market exchange rate falls back to 6.3 and 6.5 dinar s for a German mark.

Monday, July 6
Pec - Three policemen, Mirko Radunovic, Dejan Prelevic and Milo Rajkovic,  are killed in clashes with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Another nine police officers are wounded, six of them seriously.
The Hague - Milan Kovacevic, the former Prijedor hospital manager accused  of committing war crimes and genocide, denies guilt on all fifteen accounts.

Tuesday, July 7
Bitolj - A Turkish state minister, Rustu Yudeljen, is injured in a car accident while escorting his Prime Minister Mesut Yelmaz on an official visit  to Macedonia.

Wednesday, July 8
Bonn - The Contact group instructs all sides to the conflict in Kosovo to start peace talks. The group draws up an autonomy concept to be offered to the warring sides.
Durres - Four NATO vessels arrive in the Albanian port as support for a peaceful solution to the Kosovo crisis. NATO officials issue an official statement announcing a military intervention in Kosovo to include non-NATO  countries such as Russia.