Issue 275 - January 11, 1997

This country cannot free itself of all problems overnight, but the citizens are very disposed to put it all down to Milosevic's heritage and are simply calling upon the opposition to throw off all of his mortgage

The demonstrations have so far been ridiculed. The police is waiting to follow orders, the citizens act in accordance with their beliefs in the game of nerves with no ending. Is the moment for the beginning of negotiations drawing near?

The different treatment given to the student delegation in General Perisic’s and Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Zoran Sokolovic’s cabinets shows the different approaches to the Serbian regime’s crisis by the military and police

One recent theory (voiced by New democracy (ND) leader Dusan Mihajlovic) says that the fact that Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is constantly postponing his final say on (not) accepting the local election results is not accidental. "We understand he wants to see everything, check out the attitude of his partners and associates, both at home and abroad, towards him before committing himself," Mihajlovic said

Svetozar Marovic, the Speaker of the Montenegrin Parliament, has in the strongest possible way disassociated himself (i.e. Montenegrin leadership) from the regime of Slobodan Milosevic

The Bosnian authorities are likely to support only the champions of a unitary Bosnian state

After two weeks of persuasion by doctors and state media that Predrag Starcevic died of heart failure, the official and true version finally came: he was beaten to death

"There is no reform in the economy without reform in politics. Let me be completely clear - the transition to a market economy is impossible as long as the SPS is in power"

For about ten years Novi Sad has not had a long-term development plan, and it is unknown what is to be done next year. We will create the long-term development concept for the period of 20 years, regardless of whether we will be here or not

The main issue in the peaceful reintegration of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem is the return of refugees, both Serb and Croat