Issue 94 - July 12, 1993

This kind of unyielding devotion might seem absurd to some, but by rule it does baffle the authorities who do not know what to do on such occasions

Serbia is ruled with as many policemen as New York City has. It was high time it founded its own academy with Ph.D. titles. We are living in a grotesque film

Manojlo Vukotic's departure marks the end of an important period in "Borba's" history, one full of ups and downs. Concern remains however, over the fact that "Borba's" fate will depend on the inclinations of its new owner

To the announcement from the Federal Prime Minister's cabinet saying: "There will be no exports of aluminum", the Montenegrin Foreign Ministry quickly reacted by claiming: "The decision is still being awaited"

The District Court's Criminal Council turned down the lawyers' complaint and did not annul the pre-trial detention of Vuk and Danica Draskovic

Have you ever heard of any authorities boasting about having destroyed the national currency? Well, that has happened here

A big swindle over harvest, which was master-minded in Belgrade, has a painful regional dimension. In Vojvodina, it is perceived as an unprecedented rip-off, so that the highest officials of the Serbian Government in this province have tried to wash their hands

The Workers' Council of the "Politika" Company (whose mandate expired a long time ago) decided in its session on July 2nd that NIN should "manage its affairs in the future as an independent firm."

VREME has asked the Serbian Ministry of the Interior to provide answers to the following questions:

The symposium "War Crimes and War Crime Tribunal" was held on July 1-3 in the Swiss town of Fribourg and was organised by the Belgrade-based Centre for Anti-war Action and the Freiburg University Institute for Federalism

For Milosevic, Vuk Draskovic is a prisoner of war, the commander of the enemy army whom he can release at the end of the war, if he makes him completely harmless, or if holding onto him becomes too dangerous from the point of view of war goals