Issue 33 - May 11, 1992

The creation of the new state means the death of an old army, that is certain now. The JNA (Yugoslav People's Army) is dying of natural causes, the Serbo-Montenegrin Army is knocking at the door. Whether the defeated army drew the right conclusions from its defeat and whether the forthcoming hunt for the heads of generals marks an actual settling of accounts for a new beginning - remains to be seen

The Belgrade University Teachers' Council last week proposed to the Serbian government a move to allow those who left the country on the eve and in the course of the war, unconditional return. Credit for this initiative is due to the Dean of the Natural Sciences Faculty, Milan Bozic, and the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Milan Radovanovic

There's a new dimension to the drama. Who is loyal to whom? A shortage of money, the introduction of coupons. Claims that Serbs are unarmed

Lieutenant-General Blagoje Adzic's official biography, published on January 9, 1992, after the ex-SFRY's (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) Presidency had promoted him to acting-Federal Defense Secretary, had only seven lines of text

The Serbian Prime Minister's almost unbelievable statement that his government will not pursue an economic policy and that we should wait until a new federal prime minister is elected (i.e. in two months time), to be presented with the concept of an anti-inflation program and "a number of practical solutions, which, along with laws concerning the economic system, will provide the adequate environment for reforms", has been echoing in the last week around economic, and wider, circles

Marack Goulding's statement, "I cannot say whether there will be peace operations or not", heard on the transistor radio, which was crackling because its batteries were running out after a number of days spent in cellars and shelters, sounded farcical.

Military lawyer Dr. Jovan Lj. Buturovic proposes the state pardon the innocent and punish those guilty for the war

Mr. Vucelic was recently made director of television, inheriting Mr. Mitevic's TV empire, more powerful than ever despite internal upheaval, because if Serbia hasn't grown in territory, it has in spirit. Wherever war has been waged, television repeaters have been taken over, so that Vucelic's church is able to carry out its proselytizing mission and broadcast its sermons, mostly undisturbed by others, way outside the borders of Serbia