Word: milan
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Some businessmen have found the changes welcome. "Everything is much speedier," said Mario Sivieri, who runs a horse-transport business from Milan. Twelve hours has been shaved off the time it takes to ship a breeding mare from Italy to Ireland and back, saving $700 on the round trip. A dozen export-import forms were eliminated, and veterinary checks now take place only at the destination. As for Sivieri trucker Carlo Boldrini, who used to spend nights in the horse trailer when frontier posts closed for the day, "stress is reduced...
Monitors from other European states said the campaign had been "tainted by shameless propaganda in the state-run media," which labeled Milosevic's opponent, the Serbian-born American businessman Milan Panic, a spy and a traitor. The poll watchers also reported that election lists had been rigged in Milosevic's favor and that 5% of potential voters were prevented from casting their ballots...
...ANTIDEMOCRATS LIKE SERBIAN PRESIDENT Slobodan Milosevic crave the legitimacy only elections can bestow; what is vexing is the chance of losing. So he fixed the odds. Milosevic now risks almost nothing in upcoming Dec. 20 balloting, since the Serbian Electoral Commission disqualified his most formidable opponent, Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Panic, for failing to meet a one-year residency requirement...
Before the vote, Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic had asked the Assembly to hold off the expulsion to give him some leverage in his power struggle with "militant nationalists" in Belgrade. Diplomats said they accepted Panic's good intentions but doubted his ability to deliver...
...Western delegation last week that if the Muslim government in Sarajevo wanted peace, it would first have to reopen the roads, railroads and air space and restore the telephone and electricity lines it has cut off. "If we don't have electricity, if we don't have fuel," said Milan Covacevic, a social-planning official in Prijedor, "not only will we continue fighting, but we will all become cannibals...