Issue 292 - May 10, 1997

Serbia got a Judges’ Society and appointed Serbian Supreme Court Judge Zoran Ivosevic its first chairman on April 26. In his open letter to the public last November, Ivosevic said: "I do not agree to keep quiet if I have to be shamed".

In the school year of 96/97 the unique generation completes its education: the generation that matured in the times of deep crisis and war

"In the area of science we will reach 1985 levels only in the year 2020!"

With such an impoverished, but also humiliated university and field of science, is there any chance to keep up the pace with Europe or does our future lies in the return into the past, we asked the academician Milan Kurepa, a scientist with a global reputation who is a professor at the School of Physics in Belgrade

"Bearing the interest of the region and especially stability in the town of Vukovar in mind, the SDSS is prepared to commence negotiations on a power-sharing and on organizing a government with the HDZ"

The Yugoslav Army (VJ) won’t be shortening compulsory military service for young men from the current 12 month term. The military authorities told VREME that "a shortening of the military service term is not possible right now"

What happened with the "biggest spy affair in post-war Yugoslavia" announced by Branko Kostic ? Why is the airforce at fault and how many coups were attempted within its ranks ? What did the "Opera" do and why did general Boskovic arrest the "Opera" group?