by Milos Vasic and a team of journalists from VREME
``The Serbs can do without bread, but not without a state.'' This statement made by Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic a year ago, has become reality: the Serbs are living in a state without bread or law. The military rebellion in Banjaluka opened up the long neglected problem of the bare economic survival of the ``Western Serb lands,'' and the question of the state's foundation
It is too early to tell whether several people were sacrificed so that others could save their skin or some political party decided to shake Karadzic's position and topple the government because of the division of booty, Geneva or something else
The Montenegrin government's policy is not to the liking of those who voted for it, while those who tried to topple it last year, are now ready to support it
The latest reaction of Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Zeljko Simic to what Skeljzen Malici and Adem Demaci told the Sofia daily ``Standard'' has give rise to bitter comments in Kosovo
Judging by the first round of the trial of Serbian Ministers Sava Vlajkovic and Velimir Mihajlovic before a five member council of the District Court in Belgrade (which began on September 13), neither the prosecution nor the defense has decided to make the spectacle of the proceedings
``We toppled former Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic only after the third attempt,'' said Seselj talking to VREME, adding that the announced attack on Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic's cabinet in October should be regarded as a test. ``We'll try and see...''
The state propaganda is using the assurances that the end of Yugoslavia's ostracism is nearer by the day to encourage the people to stick it out a little longer as the international community ``is now convinced'' that the charges on Yugoslavia's account are ``groundless''
Who knows, the action in the Velebit area may have been agreed in Geneva as a test to Serbian and Croatian public, while the escalation of violence came as one of unpredictable factors