Issue 293 - May 17, 1997

The agony of the Coalition Zajedno has been going on for too long to maintain dramatic tension over the uncertainty of its fate. I would say that the attention of most of the interested and until recent fervent supporters has waned and now all are peacefully awaiting the closing scene.

Without the participation of Slobodan Milosevic, even four candidates will have the chance to enter the second round of the presidential elections

The chances of getting out of the dead end street are higher this time around than the last ten times

The dissatisfied doctors, medical staff and social workers of Serbia are on strike again since the beginning of this week. The reason: unpaid salaries

What are the similarities and differences between the governments of Martic, Hadzic and Bukosija

(The end in the next issue: The Labrador affair, trial of KOS chiefs, what happened to the others...)

The framing of security department chiefs, the making of a scandal over an explosion at the Jewish cemetery in Zagreb and how the Labrador group got into trouble twice

The SRS authorities in Zemun faced the same problems as the new opposition authorities across Serbia proper and Vojvodina, but the Radicals are solving those problems in a way that was expected from them: a merry combination of economic laissez-faire liberalism, social demagogy, and aggressive political marketing

Normalized business links would quickly reach the levels that would be greater than all the open questions of succession together