Issue 105 - September 27, 1993

‘‘Give my regards to this man Berisha'' said Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic on leaving Geneva, prior to the first visit of a top Yugoslav statesman to Tirana after 44 years.

It is interesting to follow policy blunders by Serbia's official propaganda with regard to Russia, which has surpassed the status of a mother image and become some sort of a mystical mainstay, one which is referred to in very imaginative ways and on all possible occasions

It seems incredible that amidst all the queues, empty shelves and growing anger, Radical leader Seselj was the first to call for the toppling of the Serbian government, while the majority of the opposition chose to follow foreign policy matters

The negotiating parties may have praised the sea while on the British Aircraft Carrier ‘‘Invincible,'' but they started speaking only when they reached the land

In many things inflation, lawlessness, mafia, corruption, missing persons, misery and a general hopelessness, we have reached and even surpassed Latin America. The matter regarding the press differs here from the method recommended by the generalissimos

Experts predict that inflation in September will reach 1,000%, so that a disinterested observer will come the conclusion that the economic chaos in the country is primarily the result of domestic policy, and that such an economic policy has not been forced by the United Nations' sanctions

Some fight, the others smuggle. Some want to put an end to smuggling in the name of the holy Serbian cause, while the others need the very same smuggling because of the same thing

Practically, there is no region in the Serb Republic in Bosnia where ‘‘examples of profiteering and patriotism'' weren't found. Karadzic's problem boils down to the fact that the measure of ‘‘Serbian patriotism'' was successfulness in pillaging everything that stayed in the wake of the Bosnian state

There is a host of secret services in Belgrade of which official police and counter intelligence agencies have no clue. The details of Reljic's abduction lead one to various conclusions, all of which are worrying both for independent media and the future of this state

Fears frequently felt over the past year and a half that the war might spill over from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Sandzak have been fueled again