Issue 114 - November 29, 1993

Observers explain the pigheadedness of opposition leaders in running on individual tickets, with their personal animosity. They seem to regard these elections as a chance of showing each other where they stand. In an atmosphere of general suspicion, former Yugoslav PM and presidential candidate Milan Panic is the only optimist

Elections are before us once more, and Milan Panic former Yugoslav Prime Minister is in Belgrade again. This time he is less carefree, and doesn't resemble the Panic who said in August that he had the right to ``a return game''

The Communists are written off for a longterm period, the Democrats are circling the army in a wide arc, the Radicals could have penetrated the military tissue but things changed after Seselj fell out of a swing occupied by Milosevic's favorite opposition politician, and the Socialists consider the military to be their realm

Hyperinflation will soon empty all the shops, said Danilo Sukovic who is Director of the Center for Economic Research with the Institute of Social Sciences in Belgrade, and member of the expert group for prices set up by the Yugoslav government a few months ago

Dinar, as a national currency, no longer exists. It is very much like a coupon with which you can buy papers or some food in shops or on the market. Any other shopping has to be done with DM

Mental patients are most often the first to be affected by a social catastrophe. Unable to articulate their right to basic living conditions, let alone realize it, they survive naked in the lap of their fellow sufferer

There is a fear that in the next ten years axes will be used in meting justice and that in the absence of an efficient state governed by law, the citizens will seek ``alternative methods of protection'': armed bodyguards and ``debt collectors.'' ``Death squads'' could be the natural outcome of such a situation

Of Montenegro's merchant fleet totalling 38 ships, only three are in domestic waters. The others are anchored until further notice in ports worldwide

Vojislav Seselj, the leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) handed out on Thursday a large number of copies of a document, actually a pile of documents, which pertain to the work of the State Commission by order of the Supreme Defense Council on the case ``Panic and son.'' The company at issue is ``Kentaur,'' whose owner is Goran Panic, the son of Zivota Panic and whose business conducted with the army was marked with negligence. The report was made public in the way described above and is to be summarized as follows, ``The total damage caused by business transactions between the Yugoslav Army (VJ) and ``Kentaur'' upon reviewing the reports stands at 30, 926, 695.007 Dinars or 96,645 DM, which is presented in the Enclosure nb. 4/7 of the Report.