Issue 59 - September 11, 1992

The Serbian and Montenegrin idyll is coming to a picturesque finale: to the statement of Serbian Prime Minister, Radoman Bozovic, that "Montenegrins are shit", the Ministry of Information, in the name of the Montenegrin government was "authorized to announce the following": "...We would like to remind Mr Bozovic that, like all other Bozovics, he is Montenegrin and that what he has said is in fact the best description of himself. From head to toe."

Now, in the middle of an evil and genocidal war, no-one has any time for abstract justice, and a rational and wise solution seems illusory, ridiculous and almost insulting. Serb and Croat war leaders, in accepting this Bosnian constitution, would have to admit that they were complete idiots.

By attempting to oust Mr. Panic, the Socialists again verified that they have not given up creating a greater Serbia, this time with the assistance of the xenophobic "alliance of Serbian lands".

Russian journalists Victor Noggin and Genadiy Kurinoy were last seen on September 1st 1991 and since then there has been no trace of them. All the efforts to find out what has happened to them were in vain. "Vreme" has come by the results of the investigation carried out at the place where their car was destroyed

The first clashes in the '92 election campaign have disclosed the vulnerability and volatility of the situation in Yugoslavia

The election competition has nevertheless started. The immature political scene is burning of negotiations on coalition clusters. Public opinion polls, that used to be quite marginal occurrences, now are a merchandise in ever greater demand. The most recent opinion survey is the one conducted at the end of October by the Belgrade MF Agency on a relatively large sample on the whole territory of Yugoslavia (1600 respondents).