Issue 197 - July 10, 1995

Both Serbian and Croatian television very willingly broadcast the other side's propaganda stupidities and lies, not only in cases like this, but also about the war, mutual relations and internal affairs. In the Croatian stupidity the Serbs do not recognize their own, just as lying, such as is being done by the Serbs, is as an activity perfectly foreign to the Croats. They both keep shoving a mirror before each other without any fear that either will see their own reflection in it

Politics, passion, a wild night in Glifada, a black eye, whistling and booing. It was all there, as if someone deliberately wanted to suppress sports. VREME's reporter was there on the last day of the European basketball championships

Opinion polls in Germany showed that people are not thrilled to see their soldiers leave on their first combat mission since W.W.II

Yugoslavia is a taboo in Slovenia now. We are still tense, as if we still do not believe that we are independent. Hence such a nervous reaction to any mention of Belgrade Spomenka Hribar, one of the leaders of the Slovenian Spring, a sociologist from Ljubljana, once the editor-in-chief of Nova Revija once again an independent intellectual after a brief excursion into politics, talks exclusively for Vreme about the reconciliation, internal enemies and taboos

No one knows for certain whether the "tip of society" has become more pointed than ever in recent years and to what extent the nouveau riche and war profiteers snuggled up to the political elite

Former Polish president and one of the most controversial personalities in the recent Polish history, General Wojteh Jaruzelski, speaks for VREME about his role in a recent history of Poland