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...Kertes and the people around him profited immensely from his position. In his home town of Backa Palanka on the Croatian border, he made sure his friends got jobs and even doled out gifts to kindergarten children from vast warehouses built in town to house confiscated goods. The pork barrel paid off. In last September's elections, Backa Palanka was one of the only districts in the country to vote Milosevic...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: As protests continued peacefully in Belgrade, Socialists in another disputed Yugoslavian town made their defiance of democracy official -- and backed it up with violence. In Smederevska Palanka, 50 miles south of Belgrade, Socialists held the town council's inaugural session in a town hall ringed by police, who kept opposition deputies outside. After holding their own assembly in front of the building to the cheers of hundreds of supporters, the opposition members began a march through the center of town. They were met with the batons of riot police. "Without any provocation or warning, policemen, mostly local, clubbed...
...Orient Express sped westward from Istanbul one September day in 1921, a tall, slender young classicist gazed thoughtfully out the window. "I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...
Speaking at the little railroad manufacturing town of Smederevska Palanka, he challenged the West: "Do you want Yugoslavia as an ally or not?" It has "the strongest army in Western Europe," he said, but "if they don't want us for allies, we have another outcome." What this outcome was, except to sit on his hands, Tito...
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