Issue 189 - May 15, 1995

The Croatian authorities are going out of their way in their "unnatural" kindness towards their erstwhile "natural" enemies, war criminals and chetniks with whom a joint life is not possible

What can we expect at the RS parliament session; Martic will certainly be blamed for the army not being prepared in Western Slavonia and Mikelic will be accused of making too many concessions in negotiations.

We asked Serb leader Veljko Dzakula if he was under house arrest. He said no, but that he had been told not to walk around too much. "I know that some people get goose pimples on hearing my name", he said

He realized that Western Slavonia attracted childish retired generals who demanded white horses, mediators who offered the people Croat houses in Eastern Slavonia and bearded volunteers interested only in robbery and playing high level games

I don't dare get deeper into this, but I believe that many of the more extremist nationalists in Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia are in fact driven by a hatred of their homeland. It is as if they are persecuted by memories of old misfortunes and humiliations, and they seem to believe that they themselves will change and become better if the place of their ugly memories is destroyed

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic informed police minister Pejakovic that he would oust him. The minister and his associates said they'd resign but they first dismissed the heads of the Podgorica security center. The Police split into two factions

Can New Democracy (ND) become a bridge between the authorities and national minorities in Serbia? Initial contacts have been made with ethnic Albanians at party level. Ethnic Moslems expect their talks with the authorities to continue

It's important for pensions to keep in step with costs of living, not salary indexes. Mathematical proof shows that the existing pensions index system is not tenable, that it has no economic or historical justification since a pension fund financed from salaries does not exist