Issue 156 - September 19, 1994

Sanctions will be eased only after independent observers reach the conclusion that the border on the Drina River will remain closed for everything except the passage of humanitarian aid and when Co chairman of the UN-EU Peace Conference on the former Yugoslavia, Thorwald Stoltenberg, and the UN Secretary-General inform the Security Council of the matter

Even though it is too early to judge the negative effects of the international sanctions against Yugoslavia, we are currently awaiting their easing. Now that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's turnabout regarding Bosnia has opened up the road for our reintegration into the world community, this is a good moment to recall the effect that they have had thus far

Someone might ask: what was the point of the war? Well, in order to ensure a future life together. In order that Serbs and Croats might be equal in the perpetration of genocide and thereby learn that they are brethren. This time the Muslims have been shortchanged by the Serbs, but something had to be left over for some future war

Signs from the field show that, regardless of the diplomatic games over arms for Muslims, the war is entering a new and very dangerous phase

The average resident of Loznica will tell you that everything is alright: "We have bread and milk, and sexual satisfaction is free."

As befits a regional and university center and a city which seriously aspires to become a national capital, Banja Luka has a large and handsome hotel (which, curiously enough, is still called "Bosna") with an elevator. The attentive host, the hotel's director, taped a note to the elevator's door, warning that, due to frequent electrical outages, guests can utilize this useful device only at their own risk. Gamblers may wind up spending a few minutes, hours or days in the elevator. It all depends