Word: aleksandar
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...demand freedom, we want to live in dignity." Milosevic's bill ceding the 14 election victories to the opposition has been submitted to parliament. And that, clearly, is where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed. "Nothing can be solved in the streets," said Aleksandar Vulin of Mirjana Markovic's Yugoslav United Left, charging opposition members to end their boycott of parliament. "If (protests) continue forever . . . then you must expect the state to defend itself." But opposition leaders fear that Milosevic's parliamentary strategy is merely a front to buy himself more time. Estimating Wednesday that...
...only did Milosevic become the first holdover from the communist past to retain the presidency of a Yugoslav republic in an open election; his habit of waving the bloodied shirt of ethnic grievances set Serbia on a course of imminent collision with other Yugoslavs, notably Croats and Slovenes. Said Aleksandar Baljak, a Serbian journalist: "Democracy came and knocked at the door, but we weren't at home...