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...second time in four months, demonstrators in Yugoslavia have toppled regional leaders. After two days of giant street protests by as many as 100,000 workers and students in the city of Titograd last week, the entire state and Communist Party leadership of the Republic of Montenegro tendered its resignation. The people responded by dancing in the streets, chanting, "Montenegro has risen" and "Down with armchair politicians...
During the past few months, Milosevic has deftly manipulated his supporters throughout Serbia into pressing for the ouster of moderates opposed to tighter Serbian controls over Kosovo. Demonstrations erupted in Serbia and Voivodina, like Kosovo an autonomous province. In Montenegro last week, police used tear gas and nightsticks to suppress a demonstration by thousands of Milosevic partisans...
...Yugoslavia's autonomous province of Voivodina last week, some 100,000 Serbs demanded and got the resignation of the entire 15-member provincial Politburo. Two days later in Montenegro, thousands of protesters also demanded the ouster of the Communist Party leadership. Across Serbia, largest of the country's six republics, thousands of demonstrators called for tough, centralized control over the southern province of Kosovo, where a majority of the 2 million inhabitants are ethnic Albanians. Many carried photos of Serbian Party leader Slobodan Milosevic...
...actors adorn their characters with a modest simplicity; they never try to make them into more than they just are--poor workers beset by circumstances largely out of their control. Gianfrancesco Guarneri as Otavio and Fernanda Montenegro as his wife Romano are magnificent relying frequently on silent movement and glances to display inner turmoil about their son and about their predicament with the strike. One particularly touching moment occurs as the two sit at the kitchen table, silently counting the red beans that will become their dinner. The movements of their languid hands, which grasp each other passionately, show more...
...Montenegro's testimony pointed to the critical importance of El Salvador's neighbor Honduras in the Central American struggle. Last week the State Department announced that some 100 U.S. military trainers-twice as many as serve in El Salvador-would be sent to Honduras in the next few months to train about 2,400 Salvadoran soldiers. The reason for the move: training the troops in Honduras is one-third to one-quarter as expensive as bringing them to the U.S. for instruction...