Nothing has changed in Washington after the first assessment of the effects of the punishment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. However, shifts in the Yugoslav economic scene are evident. There is a clear polarization: on one end are Serbian farmers who are buying flour and on the other a group of Serbian academicians telling the same old story of the decades-long pillaging of Serbia, using the same arguments as those Croatian politicians defending the thesis that Belgrade plundered Zagreb
By putting forward Bulatovic and Djukanovic as federal prime minister candidates the ruling party of Montenegro looks as though its playing "double or quits"
Generals have started meeting with the opposition and the question now is: what will the Yugoslav Army do if the crisis of the Serbian regime continues and escalates? Or: have the armed forces learned anything during the last twelve months?
Main roads and streets in Kosovo are still guarded by the army and the police, armoured cars ready for action can be seen in front of all "objects of strategic importance". On June 12, private Milan Mijailovic was killed in an army barrack in Djakovica. Two catholic priests and four citizens were wounded
The arrival of Cosic, Milosevic's irritation, talks in the Serbian Parliament, a Government of National Salvation, disbandment of the Parliament, the 28th June meeting, the blessing of the heir apparent, the students' republic...
Peculiar traffic signs can be noticed in the streets of Sarajevo (if the term "street" can be applied to amorphous masses of concrete): "Danger - sniper!", "Drive really fast"... Chuck Norris would do O.K. in Sarajevo
Of all that Milosevic has done, the only thing Cosic hasn't liked was his arrogance towards the opposition. He has understood that tension has increased tremendously and that Serbs could start shooting at one another. Unlike Milosevic, he knows how to listen and talk; he likes more to win people over than to openly confront them, so that at least he can soften personal intolerance