Issue 163 - November 7, 1994

By request from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, which finances the so-called "people's kitchens" which provide free meals for the poor, Aleksandra Posarac, Srdjan Bogosavljevic and Miladin Kovacevic from the Economic Institute in Belgrade studied the social and economic background of people who receive this type of aid. While assessing the eventual need for expansion of the program, this team also studied the situation of the average Yugoslav household.

Yugoslav National Bank (NBJ) Governor Dragoslav Avramovic keeps saying that the dinar can be saved only with luck and common sense. So far he has been lucky in that the critics of his program warned him on time about things that were threatening the stability of the dinar, and he has had enough sense to take a step or two back - towards a restrictive monetary policy - every time he jumped the gun

After the decision to ease sanctions, Belgrade demonstrated a speedy opening up towards Russia on various occasions. In the past few years, relations between the two countries have oscillated between misunderstanding and complete solidarity

I don't understand Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic's argument that Croatia cannot be recognized until it is recognized by all of its citizens. If that is the condition, then this Yugoslavia will be a long time waiting too. Compared to Croatia, there are at least five times as many citizens here who have a relationship of mutual non-recognition with the state

Warnings about pollution in the self-proclaimed "ecological state of Montenegro" by its main ecology inspectors have caused their dismissal

The Curious Representative and the Indifferent Minister

Things are speeding up: the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina has turned the tide of war on two distant fronts - around Bihac and Kupres on one side, and on Igman on the other; despite expectations to the contrary, Croat troops joined the fighting on the Muslim side; Radovan Karadzic, fearing the plots he sees around himself, proclaimed a state of war and put on a uniform

Some people say that the fact that "a U.S. Albanian from Macedonia" bought the "Pride of Slovenia" from its Croatian owners has a political background

Just like in the good old days, bans on unwanted films are issued discreetly over the phone