Issue 336 - March 14, 1998

This dialogue must contribute to fencing off and isolating the influence of Milosevic, who weighs as heavily as an entire terrorist organization. By now it should be quite apparent that we are dealing with an incorrigible repeat offender, a recidivist, and I am really interested in how he will get out of this one — namely, how he will be dealt with.

People have gotten used to seeing heavily armed police troops, what scares them is the sight of mud-stained foreign television land cruisers, so reminiscent of the scenes from the Bosnian war

Can a policy pursued for the last ten years be changed in ten days

Parallel with real the fighting in Kosovo, there is virtual fighting going on on the Internet through which, for the time being, the Albanians of Kosovo are taking the upper hand

Ethnic stereotypes about oneself and others are a good way of understanding both attitudes and political events. Thus both Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo perceive themselves as hospitable, brave and peace-loving, and each other as sly chauvinists. Of course, they are helped along in this by their politicians and media

The main sin of the editors was: “an untruthful interpretation of the Serbian MUP statement” which they published on March 6. The untruthfulness was that in several titles, boxes and subtitles those dailies replaced the word terrorist with the word Albanians.

The minimum offer to the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo would be a call to a dialogue and the resolving of open questions through political means under a step by step principle