Issue 290 - April 26, 1997

For Milosevic, the only good news can arrive from the opposition, which is also primarily counting on his bad luck and not on its own intelligence and virtues

The Main Board of the Serbian Renewal Movement has officially nominated Vuk Draskovic as the presidential candidate of the Coalition Zajedno on April 20. The Coalition partners, the Citizens' Union of Serbia and the Democratic Party (DS) have publicly backed up Draskovic's nomination, more or less sincerely. That should conclude the problem which threatened to break-up the Coalition. Is it really so?

In his interview with "Nedeljni Telegraf", Prime minister Milo Djukanovic already suggested his version of the power conflict in Montenegro, while President Momir Bulatovic is preparing, as our sources suggest, to do the same in forthcoming interviews with "Politika" and "Pobjeda"

VREME learned that "official political circles in Belgrade" tried to obstruct Djukanovic’s meeting with Pangalos

One appointment (Govedarica), one resignation (Kuburovic), one ruling (Simic) and "fear of politics"

The fluctuations on the black market exchange rate have been caused by a 15 percent withdrawal of the money in circulation. What will happen in the coming days remains to be seen

"I exist in the code of the average Yugoslav, regardless of the fact that he is now called a Croat, Macedonian, Serb, Slovene, Bosnian or Sarajevan. They themselves are now uncovering this fact again."

The decaying synagogue in central Zemun has become the subject of a fierce argument between the Union of Jewish communities and the new Zemun authorities

"First I have to find out if she is happy. If she isn't, I shall fight for her with all my heart."

Arturo, the brother of the family doctor of Cassandra's grandfather, unhappily in love with Cassandra, at the same time engaged to the illegitimate daughter of her husband and the maid who killed him, whose parents are unknown