Issue 299 - June 28, 1997

Serbia is presenting a very strange picture: the regime is collapsing, and the opposition is disintegrating. The newest separation only shows how all the thus-far employed opposition strategies have proved to be unproductive

Slobodan Milosevic did not succeed in deposing Milo Djukanovic, nor did Milo Djukanovic manage to stop Milosevic

Montenafaks Agency reported that in the territorial waters of the Adriatic the first armed conflict between military ships and a police speedboat in transit came to pass

How a public embarrassment came to pass in neighboring Greece: one President of Serbia, one Greek Premier, two businessmen from Cyprus, one former state, one existing army and one private firm all tried to close a business deal that was in everyone’s best interest. However, too many middlemen wanted a share in the profits. Even alleged owners of the planes in question showed up, causing the entire deal to be taken to court

On the wave of current stories about privatization, as the Vreme weekly has learned, Belgrade's soccer club Partizan has expressed its wishes to become a private corporation. Privatization and the later emergence on the stock market is to be led by an expert from the consulting company Deloitte & Touche.

The Montenegrins have achieved what they intended to and Slobodan Milosevic has proved that no gossip can match his cadre combinations. This is how the suggestion of Zoran Lilic that Dusan Vlatkovic, currently the Serbian minister of finance, take the office of the governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia should be viewed.

Late reports: Vuk Obradovic on the 1991 coup, on Kadijevic's Moscow visit; Nikola Cubra on a war which wasn't lost; Janko Bobetko on the Croatian Army, with special emphasis on himself