Issue 19 - February 3, 1992

At a small scientists' gathering at the Institute for International Politics in Belgrade last week, Bogdan Denic, professor of sociology in New York, said that an official announcement of a new American plan for the solution of the Yugoslav crisis can be expected soon.

The first devaluation in the incomplete Yugoslavia, which took place last week, will primarily be remembered by the fact that it merited only a few short comments: newspapers stopped treating the issue only after a few days. The reason for this should not be sought in the obsession of people with the war, since the concern how to make it until the end of the month is becoming predominant

At the time when Bozovic's government has started its agricultural policy by blocking the prices of the main agricultural products and imposing the total control of trade with Bosnia, Macedonia and other republics, all domestic trade exchanges have recorded considerable food outflow. The agricultural policy which abounds in concessions and bonuses, has turned out to be the only weapon Bozovic (the present Serbian prime minister) has against inflation, starvation, energy blockade and the "disobedient members" of the incomplete Yugoslavia.

The civilian republic should mostly be feared by its present promoters like Karadzic (the president of the Bosnian Serbs), Koljevic (the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) MP for Bosnia) and other local strongmen. This goes for Izetbegovic as well, who will not be forgiven for being the first one to form a national party in B&H, regardless of the fact that the climate in Yugoslavia at that time was steering him in that direction.

Will Milosevic's defeat cause the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts to be dropped, or will other means be used to carry it through?

Slovene minister of interior talks about foreigners, Janez Jansa, war, terrorism, armament, Serbs and Croats...

The beginning of the trial of Mr. Vuk Draskovic, president of SPO (Serbian Revival Party), was scheduled last Wednesday for February 20th, 1992 in the 1st District Court in Belgrade.