Issue 218 - December 3, 1995

Mirko Marjanovic, director of Belgrade's Progres company has the greatest chance of getting the first big export deal after the suspension of the sanctions. The final decision is in the hands of Mirko Marjanovic, Prime Minister of Serbia

Prices grew at a rate of 9.9% in October (price increase of electricity not included), which is less than a month earlier (10.2% ). Inflation reached 115% compared to July 1994

"We should crush them all: the Moslems, the Croats and UNPROFOR. Only then will the Serb people have their own state. As for me, when we win that, I'm going to live with my uncle in Canada. There's nothing here and he's got a restaurant there" (Serb soldier in Bosnia, 1992)

Tudjman first announced a trade of territories but he lacks nine votes in parliament for that decision. Unless he convinces opposition deputies to back him he'll have to organize a referendum

VREME's appeal for the release of General VladimirTrifunovic and Colonels Sreten Raduski and Berislav Popov was joined by the Helsinki Human Rights Committee

By arresting Antun Gudelj, the murderer of Osijek police chief Josip Reihl-Kir, the German authorities have brought the Croatian authorities into a delicate position; a repeat of his trial could reveal some scandalous things

Independent economists assess that the suspension of the international sanctions is insufficient to revive the Yugoslav economy

How is the new dinar rate to be protected if the chief reasons for the depreciation of the national currency have not been eliminated? How is foreign capital to be attracted when not even the domestic owners are returning their capital from abroad? How should the economy's competitiveness be increased if the managers of socially- and state-owned firms lack any motivation for entering the market race?

The study "Women, Violence and War" comprises the testimonies of 150 women of various social and marital status, age, education and experience. All of them have in common the fact that they are refugees

"Crystal Bars", the latest novel of Mirko Kovac, once a writer from Belgrade, now a writer from Rovinj (croatia), is soon to appear in the local bookstores. Kovac tells Vreme what literature he belongs to, the emphasis on the differences between the Serbian and Croatian languages, the reasons for the conflicts in Yugoslavia, the intellectuals, nationalists. Kovac won two eminent prizes in the past two years: the Swedish PEN's International Award and Herder's Award, the most distinguished German prize for literature, architecture, music and art.