Issue 359 - August 22, 1998

A part of Belgrade’s journalistic and political circles and of the general public,whose numbers cannot be overlooked, seems to be gloating over a seemingly inevitable catastrophe: “well, they deserve it”! All seem to think that they will get something out of it

Some people in Kosovo are fighting a war, while others are watching first division football. The politicians are negotiating terms for starting the peace talks.

People who watched television reports from Kosovo last week could quite easily get the impression that some broadcasts were repeated several times, like popular soap operas and movies

In one ideal sense, Milosevic would prefer for the question of Kosovo never to be solved. The moment the question of Kosovo is closed, Milosevic will be faced with enormous problems because he will realize that in the absence of political discourse, absolute power can only be maintained through direct control

The Croatian opposition has spoken out against the meeting of the ministers, while some have noticed that the Croatian government, by receiving Jovanovic in Zagreb “clearly demonstrates which side it has taken in the Serbian-Albanian conflict in Kosovo”

Is there any point in bringing up the question of a telephone bill at the moment when historical bills are being settled, and what happened to make the people believe that all foreigners are thieves