Issue 162 - October 31, 1994

During times of great shortages, small advantages and privileges seem enormous. Thus, it turns out that if things take a turn for the worse, Ms. Markovic (Mirjana, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's wife, and political figure in her own right, ed. note) will become a better writer, and in the end, probably the only one whose books will be printed

Sixteen-year-old I.M. committed his first offense at age eight, his first apartment robbery at age ten, and his first rape at age thirteen. His ``list of accomplishments'' is impressive: nineteen acts of robbery and two rapes

Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj's isolation, which began in September, has deprived the SRS of its surplus of insolence which none had managed to contain. Now the authorities threaten to prolong his jail sentence

The National Bank of Yugoslavia (NBJ) has reached a very important decision: it has stopped pretending to be the state's investment fund and started conducting a policy of monetary stabilization. This turnabout took place only one month after the announcement of working groups which would deal with the problem of economic growth and during the month when the highest rate of industrial growth in the last two decades had been reached.

An economic expert's view of the current state of Governmor Avramovic's economic program

The majority of Yugoslavs over the age of sixty live in despair and do not expect anything better in life

The Soros foundations in Albania and Yugoslavia (the Pristina branch) brought intellectuals from Pristina, Belgrade and Tirana together in Budapest last year. A collection of the speeches and articles delivered there was published recently. The collection is entitled "Conflict or Dialogue: SerbAlbanian Relations and the Integration of the Balkans''