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...Meanwhile, attempts to renovate the mental hospital and geriatric center in Kovin, which houses more than 800 patients, have failed, and the 80-year-old buildings will have to be completely demolished and rebuilt from scratch, Serbian health authorities said. "This institution is beyond repair," said Milan Milic, the warden. "We'll have to figure out where to move the patients in the meantime. They'll just have to adapt...
...That's the picture police in Belgrade painted for Time last week as they wrapped up their investigation into the Djindjic murder and prepared for a trial that begins in July. It's an apocalyptic scenario, perhaps, but the plan stood a 50% chance of success, according to Nenad Milic, Deputy Interior Minister and leader of the police investigation. "They believed that the police would stay put and not step out of the box," Milic told Time. Instead, the assassination produced a massive crackdown against criminal elements of the old regime still operating in Serbia's security forces, as well...
...prosecutor's office, where Djindjic's government had been preparing indictments against them. On the day Djindjic was killed, one conspirator was monitoring the Prime Minister's movements on closed-circuit television in state security offices and relaying the information to the assassin. "We knew we were infiltrated," says Milic. But confronting the Red Berets was not an option. "We didn't have the operational strength," he says. Djindjic's death changed that. What was meant to kill the government only made it stronger. New powers introduced under a state of emergency enabled police to act against the suspected conspirators...
Margo, you're missing out. Great advances have been made in the field of throwing down recently. 5'4 Spud Webb won the 1986 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Slovenian guard Marko Milic once dunked over a Honda Del Sol. Vince Carter leaped over the head of a French seven-footer at the Olympics this past summer...
Nearly 150,000 Serbs like Milic spent most of last week fleeing before the army of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Tudjman's soldiers needed just five days to conquer Krajina, the crescent-shaped region whose Croatian Serb majority seceded from Croatia in 1991 with the help and encouragement of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Tudjman's victory last week created the largest exodus of refugees since the Balkan wars began; at the same time, the offensive shook up the region's political and military balance of power, and as a result seemed to create an opportunity for peace. The White House...