Issue 181 - March 20, 1995

Cosic said in Visegrad that no single man has the right to decide in the name of an entire nation. He wants to spite Milosevic, and because of this small personal vendetta, he is prepared to forget the people, unification, war, peace, Andric and the bridge. Compared to Cosic, Milosevic and Karadzic are moral giants

It was short but sweet: the pleasant anxiety over the "big war" in the spring disappeared when all the tricks and speculation faded away. The Serbs aren't that crazy nor is Tudjman that stupid, unlike what some people think. The only question is who profited from the artificially created panic

A trader in Velika Kladusa offered me big money to bring him a truckload of Armani suits even though there was heavy fighting everywhere. The madness is unimaginable, Marino Andolino, a doctor and volunteer humanitarian worker from Trieste told VREME

The annual percentage of certain illnesses and sociopathic occurrences in 1993, give some idea of the catastrophe which has hit us. Compared to 1986, a "normal" prewar year, the number of suicides has increased by 22.8% and the number of murders by 49%

Croatian basketball player Stojko Vrankovic and Yugoslav star Zarko Paspalj play for the same Greek club, Panatanaikos, but as of recently Vrankovic doesn't need a visa to get into Greece while Paspalj has to have one. Friendship and Visas don't seem to be the same thing

The economic system is where Mirko Marjanovic's government found it a year ago

Major-general Bozidar Djokic was dismissed as commander of the Nis corps in June 1994 under a supreme defence council decision. Four months ago Djokic started a law suit with the supreme military tribunal but there have been no results so far. He first wrote to FRY president Zoran Lilic in January but got no response. This is his second letter sent to Lilic and to VREME.

Descendants of owners whose estates were nationalized after WWII are struggling to get them back. The problem is that many of these estates and other property have changed several owners in the meantime

A mythical ethno-nationalist story about Serbia is part of elite, trivial and popular public discussions today. This is the reason that there are great variations on the subject. The differences between institutions which nurture such genres are as great as those between the Academy of Arts and Sciences and show business