Issue 134 - April 18, 1994

Out country's isolation was further exacerbated this week by the authorities' latest moves: a verbal war with the United Nations, the expulsion of foreign correspondents, delays over visas for UN representatives and preventing foreign missions from carrying out their activities

NATO planes have attacked Serb positions on land for the first time. It turned out that this incident resulted from bad diplomatic moves rather than a great decisiveness or bellicosity on either side. The rules of the game in Bosnia have changed: the impossible has happened

On Sunday, April 10, the president of the Vatican's Iustitua et Pax Committee and the Pope's special envoy, cardinal Echegeray, made a surprise visit to Belgrade. The Belgrade Bishopric said the visit was planned long before and was made at the invitation of Serbian Patriarch Pavle.

Even though it is a precedent in itself, the showdown with undesirable foreign journalists in Yugoslavia is taking place in accordance with a familiar domestic tradition: it is slipshod, clumsy and boorish

Known as: Croatia's defence minister who has managed to stay in office for three years now, while none of his many predecessors didn't have time to change the curtains before they were sacked. He is seen as the most prominent figure of the Herzegovinian lobby in Zagreb (hardliners), and as such is in firm control of the army.

On May 4, 1980 Mrs. Dimitrijevic, the widow of a general of the Yugoslav Royal Army, bought the morning editions of all daily papers to make sure that Josip Broz Tito is finally dead. She kept buying the papers throughout the week, and stopped only after she saw the obituaries frontpaged in major weeklies.