Issue 442 - June 10, 2000

Outside of the influence of Serbia and Yugoslavia, the most powerful international powers are measuring their strength over Kosovo - whose final status is nowhere in sight

When human affairs are portrayed as biblical conflicts of good vs. evil, when someone starts presenting himself as the executor of God's will, it is difficult to establish where basic shrewdness stops and Messiah madness begins

In essence, the opposition is stumbling over the same block, the one which has been its impediment so many times. In fact, many things today remind us of the affairs of the Summer 1997. One of the things that changed is that today SPO (the Serbian Renewal Movement) does not wish to go to elections, while Djindjic (leader of the Democratic Party, DS) claims that the elections, no matter under what conditions, are the only plausible way of procuring some changes in Serbia

Many Montenegrins are asking themselves how did it come to pass that the President of State allowed his brother to be put in jail and did not do anything for the fight and the entire incident to be covered up. The impression is that the affair which promised to shake up the entire ruling coalition has resulted in an entirely different effect with its development

Why did Goran Zugic, whose meteoric rise in service at once won sympathy and respect with all who knew him, get assassinated in such a way

Once the withdrawal of dinars with "the black market discount" of over 10 percent for foreign currency ends (for the 3000 dinars which are being paid out now for 150 German marks of old foreign currency savings, it is only possible to purchase 130 German marks on the street) it is only a matter of time before the state will have to come out in the open with its deficit in foreign currency reserves