Issue 445 - July 1, 2000

It is a matter of time when the state will finally take over the only privately owned printing house in Serbia and will prevent all non-government newspapers and magazines from coming out

The period before the local anti-terrorism law is to be adopted was preceded by a certain kind of regime propaganda terrorism, complete with unruliness in inventing enemies and calling upon public lynching of all those who are not sitting in the regime's lap. On the basis of that, one could start doubting how the intention of the government to come to terms with all politically unlike minded citizens stands behind this law

The Investigating Judge of the Higher Court in Podgorica, Zoran Zivkovic is continuing his investigation of the assassination attempt on the life of the leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, Vuk Draskovic, on June 14 in Budva, and is hearing suspects and witnesses. It is hard to say how far the investigation has progressed, given that no details are being released about the progress of the investigation, but it is clear that there will be no cooperation on this investigation between the Serbian and Montenegrin Ministries of Police. If certain other details are taken into account, it can already be concluded that Judge Zivkovic will have great problems in this investigation.

It isn't known for a fact - it hasn't officially been published - what brothers Ivan and Milan Lovric, arrested and suspected of having taken part in the assassination attempt on Vuk Draskovic, stated in the police, in front of the investigating judge and plaintiff in Podgorica. Naturally, their eventual confession in the police station, according to the Law on Criminal Proceedings, should not have any influence on the judicial proceedings.

Boycott of the Temporary Council of Kosovo and Metohija (PAVK) on the side of the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija (SNV) stopped at the beginning of April when Rada Trajkovic was sent to take part at the sessions as an observer. In an interview for VREME, answering the bitter accusations of some Serbs, she said that even the slightest chance for betterment in Serbia has to be used, as well as that, if the outcome of the three-months mandate as an observer proves satisfactory, SNV will become a regular member of PAVK.

Can dinar survive the burden of wheat purchase, together with credits for the building of new flats and motorways, for reconstruction of electro-industry and for the pre-election financing of social peace, along with the gradual payment of the long-standing foreign currency investments. Here, the inflation always used to begin at the time of the harvest