Issue 222 - January 1, 1996

Only Yugoslav and Serbian Presidents failed to pardon any prisoners. Does this mean that several hundred thousand citizens who fled the war will not be able to return home soon?

Banjaluka's bishop Franjo Komarica, made a round of his congregation for Christmas on the Krajina region and was "assured of the calming atmosphere which was apparent everywhere after Dayton and Paris".

If the importance and magnitude of a leader are measured by the magnitude of his problems, then Milosevic is a giant

(The author is a former diplomat, an expert in cooperation with international financial organizations)
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia survived two dramatic situations since Dragoslav Avramovic became the National Bank Governor. First, when we, literally overnight, escaped the soaring inflation and chaos and began to live more or less normally. Second, when we found out about the so-called Program 2, (the program of economic stabilization) and learned about the confrontations over it.

The Serbian Parliament is only a step from being disbanded. How parliamentarianism in Serbia was destroyed

Over one half of the families with children in Serbia could not afford minimal adequate nutrition. The number of children, whose parents can afford a trip to the beach, oranges or toys, is getting smaller and smaller

The middle class in Serbia is disappearing. As much as 70% of the population is under or just above the poverty line. Most of Serbia's citizens are becoming equal in their poverty

There's no need to stress that the "teenager" is about 25, that the "middle aged woman" is no older than 33, that the sounds of traffic from outside mix with the groaning and moaning in Serbian

Be imaginative: if you add a flower to actress Vesna Trivalic's hair and dress her in a black coat and you get a sorceress in front of you with a little imagination. Allow her to look into tea leaves and enable her to appear on a state TV channel 3 new year rock'n'roll show which is called, quite by chance, Sorry About the Interruption of the Broadcast.

This year the schooling of a future police lieutenant will cost Serbian taxpayers around 30,000 DEM. The full price of law and order could be higher