Issue 40 - June 29, 1992

Everything can be bartered, except power and the government's idea of economic regulation

Kosovo's methane mine did not blow up last Tuesday either, said a Serbian MP, even though the Serbian Interior Ministry did not permit the holding of the constitutive assembly of "The Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo", qualifying it as "an anti-constitutional act"

There would be no doubts concerning the "twelve babies' tragedy in Banja Luka Hospital" if it were not for the fact that one shipment of oxygen tanks had previously been delivered to Banja Luka despite the UN sanctions

Although I knew there had been cases of "taking away", arresting and interrogating people in different parts of town held by this or that militia, despite the warnings of my closest friends, I never thought it would happen to me (...)

30,869,574.8% - that's the dinar's "inflation rate" from 1980 until now

Sarajevo hasn't fallen, but HVO (Croatian Defense Council) and the B&H Territorial Defense (TD) are advancing towards Dubrovnik and the Montenegrin border on the South, they are spreading around Tuzla and cutting the communication lines between the Serbian territories in central Bosnia. Panic reigns in Trebinje, Montenegrins are having a hard time making up their minds, while the decisive battles are approaching

While Cosic is defending Milosevic more than taking power from him, while the economic and social system is falling apart, an attempt at a deal between the authorities and opposition fails, DEPOS (Democratic Movement of Serbia) calls the public to a rally for peace and democracy, and Crown Prince Aleksandar is arriving in the country...

In this article we are primarily interested in the social prospects of necessary changes in politics and society taking place

English could become, if not the official language in Yugoslavia, then at least the court language. The hypothesis stems from the fact that both candidates for the two most important posts in the country chat with each other in that language, as it was the case on June 21 in the "Beverly Regent" hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, where both attended the St. Vitus' Day convention of Americans of Serbian descent. Neither Alexander Karadjordjevic, nor Milan Panic feel comfortable with their Serbo-Croatian, so they prefer English