Issue 38 - June 15, 1992

"This must be the way the partisans were going", says a colleague from The Observer while we're watching the UNPROFOR vehicles trying to make their way through the narrow forest road

Sarajevo airport, symbol of international concern

In the past few days almost all the politically relevant institutions and distinguished political figures in Serbia have made statements concerning the possibility of a civil war and the necessity to avoid it

It won't be easy for Mladic to go down in history as a hero and good Serb, even though historians here have been known to carry out similar alchemical exploits. This time history will have to be written in accordance with international standards because the world has become irreparable diaphanous and everyone knows everything and no-one is allowed to stay anymore closed up in a dark backyard

Everything has been said about him. Soon either nothing will be allowed to be said about him, or it will be pointless and banal

Everyone in the West would like someone else to intervene, while everybody over here is pretending not to know against whom intervention would be directed. Lots of futile talk, however, cannot hide some serious preparations over there and some well-founded fears over here

The government is expecting that the sanctions will be lifted within the next three months. If it was not so, they would have already proclaimed a "lean year"

The DPS has stuck to Svetozar Marovic's candidacy, but this has opened up many questions