Issue 30 - April 20, 1992

All of a sudden, the United States was acting like the "leader of the free world" in the Yugoslav crisis, after months and months of hugging the sidelines and leaving crisis management to the European Community and the United Nations

Of course, the representatives of Yugoslavia and Croatia and Slovenia, present to the occasion, continued their mutually paralyzing diplomatic wrestling behind the curtain, thus prolonging the BERD leadership's decision to freeze transactions with all Yugoslav republics

The first logical conclusion is that Milosevic is looking for a new partner to represent the interests of Serbs in B&H in order to remove Karadzic, whose political role is obviously nearing its speedy epilogue

His first obsession was the monument to Ivo Andric. He then became interested in dams. Nobody knows what his next obsession will be

Stronger tones in the border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia

First there was Saddam Hussein, then Gadaffi. Now America tells Milosevic: Go!

Any Serb, even Karadzic himself, when he says he was nationally oppressed in Sarajevo is not speaking the truth. Karadzic became insecure only when he gave way to terrorism, and not because he was a Serb

If the Balkans, and especially Yugoslavia, are not tamed by the CSCE, the only possible outcome is a Middle East-like chaos or a Latin American type of dictatorship

A World Bank mission spent the whole of last week in Belgrade.