by David Binder of The New York Times Exclusevely for VREME
It would not be stretching the imagination to conceive a scenario in which representatives of the European governments with forces on the ground confront the United States saying: "This is a Balkan do-it-yourself-kit. You want to bomb the Serbs? It's all yours, Leader of the Free World. We are pulling out"
It is crystal clear now that Montenegro will have to choose between a total economic collapse, hunger and international military intervention, on one hand, and an open conflict with Serbia, on the other, unless some solution is worked out
It is a miracle that the war outside Serbia is not taking place in it because of the state's and army's total involvement, and that it has not resulted in a greater militarization of the civil authorities. The so called "Yugoslav Defence Minister" is still a civilian, albeit only a puppet, with Zivota Panic (Chief of the General Staff) pulling the strings
The new tightening of international sanctions is welcomed by the Yugoslav economy, already exhausted by numerous internal and external blows for over two years
All taken into consideration, it seems that darkness around us has been best defined by Jovan Maric, the professor at the Medical Faculty, who is an ethicist and psychiatrist
Of all the unpleasant topics burdening Croatian-Slovenian relations, certainly the most unpleasant and dangerous is the dispute over the territorial division of the bay of Piran. Slovenian public opinion polls say: in 1990, 3.8 per cent of the polled saw Croatia as a state that could endanger the independence of Slovenia; in 1991, this was the opinion of 3.5 per cent of the pollees and in 1992, of as many as 46.5