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Serbia and Montenegro don't like living with each other, but neither side is quite ready to face up to the dramatic consequences of that fact. Talks on Montenegro?s proposals to substantially increase its autonomy failed to produce any agreement Tuesday, but both sides pledged to keep talking in order to avoid plunging the region into a new war. Despite the Montenegrins? threat to secede from Yugoslavia if they?re not granted substantial independence from Belgrade, neither side is ready for such a confrontation. "It?s like an unhappy marriage in which the husband and wife are being kind...
...agreeing to disagree with Belgrade is only a temporary solution for Montenegro?s pro-Western government. "The differences between the two governments are fundamental and it?s unlikely that they?ll ever agree," says Anastasijevic. "The very fact that the talks are going on is a sign that both sides need to buy time to prepare themselves for the inevitable showdown...
Barron and Leaning, who are members of the Lowell House Senior Common Room, located the Zejnullahus in Montenegro. They helped transport the four to Albania, and worked with the First Unitarian Parish of Concord, Mass., to bring the Zejnullahus to the United States in mid-July...
...weapon of choice these days is a proposal for a transitional government in which a new Prime Minister of Yugoslavia would come from the democratic ruling party in Montenegro and the Prime Minister of Serbia from an opposition party (guess who?). "That's the end of Milosevic," he says. One of the many flaws in this plan is Montenegro's determination not to become more closely involved with Serbia as long as Milosevic is still around. Perhaps the best alternative, however, would be a united front among opposition parties. But Draskovic's ego and ambition won't let him join...
...Milosevic's formidable propaganda machine, the U.S. Information Agency plans to ring Serbia's border with six radio transmitters that will beam Western news programs into the country 24 hours a day. Last month Robert Gelbard, U.S. special envoy to the Balkans, flew to Serbia's rebellious republic of Montenegro to meet with some 20 Serbian opposition leaders and plead with them to join forces against the regime...