Word: branko
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...southern city of Skopje in the first organized labor protest to hit Yugoslavia since it became a Communist country, in 1945. Cowed officials promptly doubled some wages. In a no less startling outburst, the press and even some Communist leaders intensified calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Branko Mikulic, 59. Amid the turmoil, the devalued Yugoslav dinar plunged nearly 25% on world currency markets...
...Ljubljanska Banka, a state-run bank that had bought large quantities of Agrokomerc's promissory notes. Yugoslav officials hinted that still more resignations, and possibly more arrests, were to come. Despite some rumors to the contrary, there was no evidence that the government, which is run by Prime Minister Branko Mikulic, 59, was in danger of falling. But Yugoslav economists estimate that in 1986 alone thousands of enterprises besides Agrokomerc issued unbacked promissory notes and other flimsy financial instruments amounting to more than $9 billion. If they were all written off -- an unlikely prospect -- the enterprises and their creditors would...
...Communist state, but that did not prevent 11,000 workers from walking off their jobs last week in Yugoslavia to protest measures that have effectively frozen wages for public employees. The belt-tightening moves, which included a rollback of recent pay raises, began in February when Prime Minister Branko Mikulic tried to curb an annual inflation rate that approaches nearly 100%. The economic measures are so unpopular that even Communist Party officials criticized them, and some observers predicted further strikes when 3.5 million more workers are affected this month...
Thus the Games will open on schedule in a mood of well-justified gaiety and self-congratulation among the Yugoslavs. Branko Mikulic, the forceful fist banger who is president of Yugoslavia's Olympic Organizing Committee, and a former president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, of which Sarajevo is the capital, guaranteed the complete success of the Games and then went off to give his staff a dressing down described as "thunderous" on some unspecified subject. "I believe we are completely ready to host the Games," insists one official. Still it was true that there were a few minor shortcomings. Sarajevo...