Issue 419 - January 1, 2000

The quarreling party leaders show no capability to remove Slobodan Milosevic from power and establish order in the country after that, but they expect from the West to give them something straight away; the leaders of the West do not know what to offer, but repeat that they cannot overpower the Yugoslav regime instead of them

The choice of personalities that left a mark on 1999 was not based on influence or on measurement of public opinion, nor even on appeal, but rather on the phenomena reflected in a given personality - power trying to save its head, the regime's potentials, the role of the army, opposition dilemmas, spontaneous manifestations

The southern tip of Serbia which is mostly populated by Albanians is more peaceful than Kosovo ever way. But unrest can easily be brought to this small territory. These people are angry and desperate because they live in a place that is three times as provincial as anywhere else. This situation cannot be remedied even by the fact that one of the most important European highways passes right through here, because no one cares about them