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Those opposed to independence strongly identify themselves with Serbia. If there is a referendum and the pro-independence parties win by a narrow margin, as some opinion surveys suggest, the no campaigners might not accept the result. "We are a peaceful party," warns Dragan Koprivica, spokesman for the pro-Yugoslav Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, "but people are unpredictable...
...election pits the ruling party of President Milo Djukanovic, a former ally of Slobodan Milosevic who broke with the strongman in 1997, against a pro-Yugoslav opposition with close ties to the democratic leadership in Belgrade. If Djukanovic wins - and polls currently give his coalition 44% of the vote vs. 26% for his nearest rivals - he has vowed to hold a referendum on independence from Serbia as early as June. Various polls peg support for independence at between 47% and 58%, and that is likely to grow once a secessionist campaign begins. Djukanovic, 39, enjoys considerable personal authority...
...Venezia Giulia there are not enough Communists, Slovene and Italian combined, to win a straight political election. Together they would represent perhaps 20% of the 900,000 population. Nor are there enough Slovenes to win an ethnical plebiscite. They are about 45% of the population; almost all pro-Yugoslav, but much less than half of them Communist...
...last-minute move to achieve a compromise between the pro-Yugoslav and pan-Serb groups, Jovan Banjanin, former Minister of Forests and Mines, was chosen to form a new Government. The issue remained unsolved...
...happen. With Italy at war, it had become of the first significance that Bulgaria's Queen loanna is the daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power...
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