Issue 141 - June 6, 1994

Ethnic Albanian political circles, have lately not been lacking in mutual accusations and the division into those who are "realistic'' and those who are "unrealistic'' with regard to the question of Kosovo's future status

The new Bosnian federation is almost equally odious both to the advocates of Greater Serbia and to the extreme militant leadership of the Herzegovinian Croats

Why the announced battle against trash is already lost

The roles in the Bosnian war are now slowly being reversed: the Bosnians are now conditioning their participation in the negotiations, while attacking in the field; Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladic aren't up to picking a fight nor do they care about percentages; the Croats are playing stupid, trying to avoid their obligations in the new federation

Books with ambitions of explaining what has happened here often peep through the keyholes of doors which keep those in power shut safely away from the rest of the world. There is a fascination with the personalities of those being written about, or the authors present themselves as men fighting for the "truth'' about their nations

It was the famous sentence of Josip Broz Tito that made the nation aware that the independent judiciary is an illusion and that the laws do not have to be necessarily enforced. "For God's sake, those judges don't always have to stick to the laws like a leech,'' Tito said.

The appointment of current Montenegrin Foreign Minister Miodrag Lekic to the post of Yugoslav Ambassador to Rome, has given rise to speculation that this could be a transitional solution before the dissolving of this ministry.

The new dinar deserves to be dubbed the "Sloba'' and not the ``Avram,'' for at least two reasons: the old dinar could not have failed anyway, i.e. hyperinflation would not have happened without Milosevic's approval, just as the excessive printing of money did not stop until he said so

"I slaughtered a lamb for the first time in my life after I returned from the war. I couldn't even bear to watch this being done before. I slit its throat and skinned it. I did everything. I didn't care,'' a veteran says