Issue 349 - June 13, 1998

Milosevic doesn't really need independent media to realize how things stand. There is cause for alarm only if the Service report differs from what they write.

Of all the federal institutions, Milo Djukanovic's Montenegrin government recognizes only the Yugoslav president, accusing him at he same time of destroying the state he heads. On the other hand, Milosevic's Belgrade recognizes only the Montenegrins who lost the battle for power and legitimacy in their own republic.

Such fears and concerns follow every meeting of SPS’s Executive Council because in the meantime no one knows if they made a mistake somewhere or said something that “daddy”, especially “mommy”, or the JULies didn’t like.

With the latest military-police action, the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) suffered defeat in the area between Decani and Djakovica, but Serbia will hardly be able to pay the price of this victory

Ever greater numbers of policemen are refusing to go to Kosovo, at the cost of suspension or being fired. This is the consequence of the transformation of the police into a paramilitary organization and a civil war army. The whole story is more and more reminiscent of 1991: again a war is being waged without political objectives and without a national consensus, and again no one is willing to die in vain

Slobodan Milosevic, Milo Djukanovic, and Momir Bulatovic sitting at the same table. Support from Seselj and Draskovic. No change in direction