Issue 288 - April 12, 1997

Zajedno coalition leaders Vuk Draskovic and Zoran Djindjic finally got what they’ve been demanding for so long: every night RTS is giving them space on its prime time evening news, quoting everything they said without the usual fabrications

Counting their last days in office, the members of the Serbian Parliament of Slavonia, Baranj and West Srem recently, during a parliamentary recess, had lunch at the Vukovar hotel "Dunav"

Once that is over, Vukovar will no longer be important to anyone but the people who had the misfortune to be there and had nowhere else to go

"Some moves indicate that we are back on the patriotic track, but it is still too early to make any long-term conclusions"

News of the first round of the December 1996 elections spoke of a strengthening of Dr. Vojislav Seselj's Serbian radicals. All those who had forgotten can now clearly perceive this fact in the political life of Serbia

In the course of his visit to Bratislava, Prime Minister Djukanovic was clear: "Do I seem to be a person who is ready to retreat?"

"The sanctions have killed 80,000 Yugoslavs," Miroslav Ivanisevic, the Federal Minister for Labor, Health Care and Social Policy stated recently . "The rise in the death rate was not only influenced by the decrease in wages and the standard of living, but especially the quality of nutrition, difficulties in supplying the health institutions and health care service. The condition of the population's health has considerably worsened compared to the period prior to the sanctions which have discontinued Yugoslav development and prosperity," says the minister.