Issue 90 - June 14, 1993

Political opponents consider her aggressive and prone to scandalous behavior, they criticize her lack of manners, tone and vocabulary and accuse her of being power-hungry. Rejecting criticism of aggressiveness, Danica Draskovic, wife of Vuk Draskovic, underscores that she loves justice and that she will always react to injustice. "I am sharp inasmuch as it is necessary not be obtuse", she says of herself. "I am strong and feel that way. These are times for iron ladies"

Pressured by the political violence in Belgrade, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said in the evening of June 9th, after his meeting with Lord David Owen that the case of Vuk Draskovic, leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement, was "beyond the field of politics" and fell in the field of criminal law, as the murder of a policeman was at issue.

The Russians have disappointed the Serbs, the Germans are turning their back on the Croats, while the Moslems are losing the sympathy they won through suffering. They are all offering themselves and asking if anyone needs faithful vassals in the Balkans, but there are no takers. The world is just shrugging its shoulders

The arrival of U.S. troops to Macedonia could result in the dollar taking over from the Deutsche Mark as the main currency in Skopje's Bit bazaar

There had been major assumptions in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina until the latest events took place: Croats and Serbs are enemies, Muslims and Serbs are enemies, while Croats and Muslims are friends and allies in a fight against the mutual enemy - the Serbs. Those who are well informed about the roots, the course and the goals of the war in Bosnia will not be surprised by the new assumption of the war: Croats and Muslims are enemies, Muslims and Serbs are enemies, while Croats and Serbs are allies in a joint fight against the Muslims

When they feel that they are in the service of a dubious cause, the police, out of desperation hit harder than when they know they are in the right

The Serbian public prosecutor's office has only given the reasons for its request to ban the most influential opposition party, but it has still not felt obliged to provide any evidence

On the same day when Milos Radulovic, President of the Federal Assembly's Chamber of Citizens, realized with astonishment that he had become the acting Yugoslav president, the thirty-day "competition" for the federal state's new president started in accordance with the Constitution