Issue 187 - May 1, 1995

Both Karadzic and general Mladic, if they want to preserve their personal authority, know that something has to change. In his Easter message, the general called for "necessary sacrifices in the struggle to victory" probably meaning civilian businessmen. Karadzic most probably sees the need for change differently; he has no intention of ousting the people Mladic is targeting who are his main political and economic bulwark

Muhamed Filipovic came to Belgrade recently and talked with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. What was his mission and what did they discuss, we asked the Bosnia-Herzegovina ambassador in Switzerland (he's moving to London in two months)

"All the guys that play at being Chetniks are here, but in the rear. If the Moslems breach the front, God forbid, they'll be the first to run," a soldier from Vozuca explained

"Now we know who the horse is and we'll see who's going to ride him," Serb uprising leader in Kosovo in 1988, Miroslav Solevic told VREME

We have arrived at the familiar old-new institution of "taking over management" (receivership) thanks to which the state can simply take over any private firm "in the field of information", for example. Even if Article 60 of the Law on Enterprises is not foreseen for the "nationalization of information", it is problematic in itself, or rather, it clearly reflects the state nature of social enterprises

Mihailo Mihajlov, another well known Yugoslav dissident, wrote a few days ago that encyclopedias in the future will list Milovan Djilas as "the father and founder of the dissident movement which opposed communism on its home ground"

The Belgrade daily "Politika Ekspres" brings an exclusive report on the Fulbright Foundation as the "sponsor of a special war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", and an espionage nest more dangerous than Soros. This discovery puts many distinguished public figures in an embarrassing situation -politicians, scientists and Serbian mainstays - are all "interesting from the security point of view"

Municipality presidents and party committee comrades have themselves photographed, give orders and write editorials. But the profession strikes back successfully, through privately-owned newspapers

A policy which urged a final victory has reduced Serbia to a country which cannot ensure its economic survival and definitely cannot integrate those parts which depend on it politically and otherwise

This is the beginning of a novel by Petar Lukovic which will be published in VREME in installments. The Digest will carry the first two or three installments in order that you might get a picture of how a masterpiece is born before your eyes