Word: djindjic
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...Slobodan Milosevic?s secret weapon may be NATO. Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic vowed Thursday to keep up daily anti-Milosevic demonstrations despite Wednesday night?s violent police crackdown. But even if the fractured opposition does manage to overcome its differences, the fact that NATO appears unable or unwilling to stop terror attacks on the territory?s remaining Serb population creates fertile ground for Milosevic. "Kosovar Serbs are frightened because nobody?s protecting them from these systematic, well-organized attacks and the culprits are never caught," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The alliance lacks a strategy," he adds...
...only thing encouraging about this rally was the turnout," says Anastasijevic. "But as long as the opposition is divided ? and the lack of unity was depressingly evident at the rally ? it will never be able to unseat Milosevic." Draskovic?s main rival, Zoran Djindjic of the Alliance for Change, is calling for a transitional government of experts that would then hold elections in a year or so. Draskovic (whose Serbian Renewal party still commands the most support in the opposition) angrily dismissed the idea as untenable and "dust in the eyes of the people." Draskovic only wants this...
...leaders seemed to acknowledge that Milosevic may yet strike out. The coalition Zajedno provided its own, unarmed security forces for the rally, while protest leaders begged the crowd to disperse promptly to avoid further provoking riot police. Meanwhile, Pesic and the two other opposition leaders, Vuk Draskovic and Zoran Djindjic, met with French leaders in Paris to further rally international support. In Belgrade, they know, sits not a vanquished foe but a wounded tiger...
...traitors and chanted "We won't give up Slobo." Members of the opposition voiced their concern that the pro-government rally was a ploy by Milosevic's Socialist Party to spark a violent confrontation and give them an excuse for cracking down on opposition demonstrators. Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic urged his followers to exercise restraint: "We are stronger, and there is no reason to use force against them. That is exactly what Milosevic wants...
...Anyone in politics must have his priorities," Djindjic told TIME last week. "My priority is to have support in Serbia. The other is to have support in the West." An impish smile spread across his face. "Sometimes," he added, "these priorities conflict...