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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: For the tenth day in a row, students marched through the streets of Belgrade, protesting the nullification of municipal elections where the opposition party Zajedno won a majority in dozens of towns and cities. More than 50,000 students marched to Belgrade's parliament building, donning gas masks before symbolically spraying the building with detergent and daubing it with slogans like "Red Bandits, Thieves, We Are the Winners." In response to the demonstrations, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has shut down one independent radio station and jammed another that was providing favorable coverage of the anti-government protests...
...White March was a cathartic moment for a badly troubled society, but the respite from dismaying news ended last week. This time a popular and telegenic Deputy Prime Minister who is gay, Elio Di Rupo, 45, was accused by local prosecutors--who petitioned Parliament to lift his official immunity so he could be formally charged--of having sex with underage boys. At the same time, similar charges were leveled against Jean-Pierre Grafe, 64, a regional minister who is also homosexual. Both men denied the accusations. The case of Di Rupo, a key insider, could lead to the breakup...
MINSK, Belarus: After declaring a landslide victory in Sunday's referendum that would expand his powers, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko found the results of the voting attacked by parliament. So today, Lukashenko convinced 111 members to leave their colleagues behind and convene in another building across town. That left 60 or 70 of his opponents behind in the original parliament, fuming and planning. Vice speaker Gennady Karpenko said the anti-Lukashenko deputies would not recognize the results, which were 70.5 percent in favor of the referendum. He said there was evidence of vote fraud that "constitutes a clear and glaring...
...publicly suggested the move. If the President had problems with her, the Prime Minister said repeatedly, she didn't see why he didn't bring them up. On Tuesday morning he did just that--and laid out his solution. He dismissed her government, appointed a caretaker Prime Minister, dissolved Parliament and promised to hold elections within 90 days...
CLEARED. WOJCIECH JARUZELSKI, 73, general who led Poland's communist military regime from 1981 to '89; by parliament, which voted not to charge him for imposing martial law in 1981; in Warsaw...