Issue 231 - March 12, 1996

That day everything seemed possible: the police got a beating; no one fled the tear gas; the water cannon just added to the anger of the masses; shop windows broke; cars burned. From some hole, Slobodan Milosevic called in the army to save him...

"The accusation in the world that the Serb people wanted and caused this mad war will have to fall before the truth that dead and wounded fell in the streets of Belgrade. And that the JNA pointed its guns at the people of Belgrade first. The Serbs were the first victims and first targets of that mad power", Draskovic said

Riots that are not dangerous to the authorities do not exist

As soon as Governor Dragoslav Avramovic, ahead of the spring sowing, asked what happened to the money for last year's crop, a number of questions opened up, which Marjanovic's administration cannot answer, although they are trying

Gabriel Keller (1947), a professor of history, being the first West-European ambassador in Belgrade after the suspension of sanctions, is very much present in the media. Vreme is taking one step further from the usual protocol greeting to the new ambassador

A few years ago, your predecessors in Belgrade watched the Monument of Gratitude to France in Kalemegdan being covered with black fabric, and saw foreign officials shown by state-controlled television as traitors; they were forced to remove insulting graffiti from the walls of the Embassy. Do you have the impression that the xenophobic atmosphere is easing?

The new national name "Bosnjak" has given the Sandzak Muslims some light national romanticism. There are two strong groups competing on the political scene for Sarajevo's affection

Everyone in Bosnia traded something - guns, food, cigarettes, fuel, drugs... Two places were a smuggler's paradise: Kiseljak and Velika Kladusa

We drew up a list of some 60 Slovenian companies that remained on the Serbian and Montenegrin markets since the break-up of former Yugoslavia. We were primarily interested in whether they plan to come back to FR Yugoslavia following the lifting of the sanctions and Slovenia's recognition of the FRY on November 30, and whether they had contacted their former partners in the FRY.