Issue 168 - December 12, 1994

In early summer, when people in the "safe zone" of Gorazde were dying, scouts and allied soldiers in Germany were collecting tens of thousands of frogs in cans and carrying them across roads so that they might not be run over. The frogs were saved and are now sleeping through the winter. The people in Bosnia whom the scouts couldn't and the soldiers didn't want to help will not awaken next summer - they have been killed, are being killed and remain dead.

Someone has discovered that Rusanj, a rural suburb of Belgrade, is to blame for everything because its inhabitants exploit electricity so monstrously that their pigs shine fluorescently in the dark

A helicopter carrying "humanitarian" aid for Bosnia-Herzegovina exploded at Zagreb's Lucko Air Base. There have been speculations that it was actually carrying anti-armor weapons for the defenders of Bihac

At the request of the "Media Center", an institution that brings together a few Serbian media and journalists' associations, the "Argument" agency for sociological and political research carried out a comprehensive study of articles about the media that appeared in the daily and weekly newspapers last month

All of the Serbian governments lowered the price of electricity drastically, eliminating any sense of economics from the industry, and turned the most successful company into a loss maker. Last year's losses stood at 900 million DEM, but in real terms they are closer to two billion

It seems that an "important political meeting" on economic policy for the coming year was held on the night of December 4-5 and they probably decided that Serbian Prime Minister Marjanovic should not make any public statements on economic policy

Thanks to an early election and the accompanying political passion and their own poverty, the mainly Romany (Gypsy) population in the Pirot suburb of Nova Mala has become an electorate courted by both the ruling party and the opposition

After recent frequent failures in the provinces, the ruling party seems to have decided to bring the opposition to its knees in the Belgade municipality of Vracar

The rumor that the Serbian President had said that he already had 25 of the 42 Bosnian Serb deputies necessary for a majority in that parliament on his side had spread throughout Belgrade diplomatic circles these days. Karadzic indirectly said that Pale would no longer be saying that important Assembly decisions had been reached "unanimously"

According to Adil Zulfikarpasic, the decision made at the 1878 Berlin Congress to preserve the entirety of Bosnia-Herzegovina is the only possible way to preserve the Bosnjaks (Bosnian Muslims) as a people