Issue 159 - October 10, 1994

The fact that the Russians were the first to come should worry us a bit, but then haven't we always started with the Russians and then turned to the West after getting our act together a bit?

Just as it has been proved that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic does not possess the strength of a new Josip Broz Tito, it has become obvious that his wife Mirjana Markovic, the Yugoslav Communists' ideologue, is too strong to be a new Jovanka Broz (whose political influence was eventually taken away from her), as some Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) circles would like to see her

From the very first line, Mirjana Markovic needed to explain the genre: "In several places I read, in several forms, a dilemma about my diary in `Duga' biweekly: What's behind my writing. That is, are there interests behind my writing, someone's stands, someone's intentions... I will remove that dilemma myself, if it really exists. My opinion stands behind my writing.''

How much political influence does the army still have in Serbia?