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...their pro-democracy demonstrations. "We got firm assurances it will be so, and we are very pleased," said Dusan Vasiljevic, one of the students. If the army holds to its pledge, it represents a shift in the role that the military will play in Belgrade. In March of 1991, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic brought army tanks onto the streets of Belgrade to halt protests. He also used the military to launch wars in Croatia later that year and in Bosnia in 1992. But Milosevic has neglected the army in favor of a strong police force, a slight that may cost...
...unmistakable in his black turtleneck and soft tweed jacket, the former university professor had been until recently but one among many voices in the cacophonous crowd of Zajedno (Together), a coalition whose members were united only by their opposition to Milosevic. Zajedno's potpourri included everything from strident Serb nationalists whose hard-line politics are as autocratic as Milosevic's, to liberals infatuated with Western democracy. Plagued by disunity, backstabbing and factional feuds, Zajedno's concatenation of conflicting groups could barely agree on who was in charge, much less what policies to pursue. Now the huge rallies have given them...
...Serbia deserve what their neighbors in Central Europe have -- clean elections." In Washington, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said the United States would continue "turning up the flame" on Milosevic. Milosevic is sure to feel more heat after Dejan Bulatovic, arrested after he held aloft a effigy of the Serb president dressed in jailbird stripes, was beaten and tortured while in prison. The official charge? Traffic violations...
...presence in Bosnia a "statesmanlike" move. Republican leaders, who had been skeptical all along that the President would bring the troops home as promised, have accused him of breaking his word even as evidence mounts that Bosnia remains unstable, putting Americans in jeopardy. After the recent Muslim and Serb clashes, U.S. troops were forced to disband a Muslim army unit and confiscate thousands of illegally hoarded weapons, while Muslims protesting the seizure threw rocks, spat at the soldiers, and lay in front of the trucks taking away their arms...
...common ground at their first meeting Monday. The fact that the meeting was held at all is perhaps the most significant news, notes TIME's Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Momcilo Krajisnik, the presidency's Serbian member who has long been a fierce advocate of independence for the Serb Republic, had as recently as Sunday said that the meeting might not come off. "He could easily have refused to meet at all, just claim he had important prior commitments," says Calabresi. Krajisnik, Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and Croat leader Kresimir Zubak agreed to release all prisoners...