Rugova was very happy about the talks with Lord Owen and Stoltenberg. "We got more than we expected", he is alleged to have said on the telephone. He was obviously thinking of the project and not Milosevic's offer to meet
It seems that Yugoslav Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic kept up such a good show in Zagreb that his Croatian counterpart Mate Granic lost all will to return the visit. Or more likely, Zagreb has gained such a psychological advantage over Belgrade in the last few years that someone here would have to visit them twenty times or more in order to deserve a return visit. However it may be, it is obvious that no speedy normalization of relations threatens us, something I have received with relief.
A "common" murderer could rescue himself from execution if he could make his crime appear to be ethnic cleansing. On the other hand, someone who blew up the Army General-Staff or the Yugoslav Parliament with all of its representatives could receive the death penalty only if the prosecutor proved that the accused had done it for personal gain
In many cases, the divided families have established some kind of contact, some have been reunited, and the search, at least through the Yugoslav Red Cross (JCK), currently stands at 280 search requests in Croatia
The current 5 victories to 1 defeat for the opposition in local elections (with the possibility of an even better score in the end) are nevertheless not convincing enough to lead to any confident conclusions
National lines are being drawn even where they never existed before. However, some would say that annoying witnesses who think that Bosnia could have followed another path should be eliminated
by Ivan Mrdjen (the author is Director of VREME Magazine Publishing)
The former director of Belgrade's "Borba" daily explains the circumstances in which the newspaper's privatization was achieved, a topic which is essential to an understanding of the current attempts by the authorities to take control of the newspaper
The following is a copy of the written opinion of the court of honor set up by the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia (NUNS) that the Association's board did not understand and Studio B Television's executive board refused to broadcast
The famous pop singer from Vojvodina, Djordje Balasevic, was popular throughout the former Yugoslavia. He has not allowed himself to be compromised during the last three years and is one of the few who can still perform in any part of his lost homeland - successfully