Issue 98 - August 9, 1993

A historical agreement in Geneva is possible and a big job in Bosnia-Herzegovina can be wrapped up now, so that it would not make any sense if several hundred thousand brains lobotomized by war spoiled all that effort

In the country where ``reliable reports'' abound, many things on which our lives are directly dependent remain shrouded in mystery. Perhaps, he who has learned from his ``reliable sources'' what the CIA and UNPROFOR are plotting together with the Muslim authorities in Sarajevo could help us find out how much money is printed in Yugoslavia

Investigations in the field have led the Fund for Humanitarian Law to the conclusion that the arbitrary and unchecked behaviour of the Serbian police towards Kosovo Albanians discloses a police state, and not one governed by law. In spite of the Serbian authorities' custom of using police terror in dealing with Kosovo Albanians because of their political stands, it is encouraging that the inhabitants of Kosovo are not at conflict for ethnic reasons

Croatia and Slovenia had entered Istria when they became part of Yugoslavia and two years ago, upon seceding from it, each has taken a part of the peninsula

If one is attacked on the street, one still has a chance to fend off the blows. If one is attacked by the state, one's chances are minimal

Twelve tips on how to rescue your financial reserves

Officially, the Federal Statistics Bureau has registered a 431 percent inflation in July, but no sooner were the figures presented than the bureau's representative felt uneasiness. Otherwise, there would have been no need for a detailed explanation of the applied methodology, that is, for giving the dates when the price increases of certain products and services are registered, and then rounded off at the monthly level.

VREME is starting a publishing house in cooperation with ``Publicum'' Printing House. To publish books nowadays might seem like trying to catch the wind with a hat. It goes without saying that it is more profitable to resell a truck of wheat, however no undertaking is futile if one believes that there is a tomorrow. A lack of belief is the first sign of surrender. The same clock is ticking off somebody's end and somebody's beginning