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...parliamentary debate, as legislators from various parties each claimed her support. "Marija Serifovic and her mother Verica both endorsed our party during the [January] election campaign", said Rajko Djuric, a chairman of the Serbian Roma Union, a party representing ethnic Gypsies. "This is a shameless lie," retorted Aleksandar Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday, during the debate on Serbia's new government. "I am politically neutral...
...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...
...their speeches, Tito and the other leaders were careful to stress that they had no intention of returning to the harsh old police-state technique that prevailed in Yugoslavia before the ouster of former Secret Police Chief Aleksandar Rankovic in 1966. "We have experienced state socialism [the Yugoslav euphemism for Stalinism]" said Montenegrin Party Leader Veselin Djuranović, "and we never want to experience it again." Even so, tighter party rule will almost inevitably mean greater political controls, and perhaps even an increased role for the secret police, as has already happened in Croatia. In their efforts to combat nationalism...
ATELJE 212, the experimental studio company of Belgrade, is the second troupe in the Lincoln Center Festival. Under the direction of Mira Trailovic, the Yugoslavs will present four plays in Serbo-Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popovic's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Vbu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...