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...describe the revolution that had just unfolded? What could he say to assure them that after 13 years of repression and misery, the long night had passed? Kostunica stood on the balcony, held the microphone and looked out at the throng. At last he spoke. "Good evening, dear liberated Serbia," he said...
...Kosovo, Kostunica acknowledges that the U.N. peacekeeping force "will have to stay for a while, and not for a short while." Despite his strong nationalism, Kostunica has shown flexibility on Kosovo's future, calling for "a real dialogue between Serbs and Albanians" and saying that "those who think Serbia cannot exist as a nation without Kosovo are wrong...
After years of drunken rage, Serbia needs time to recover from a terrible hangover. But mass graves and normality make a bad mix. The many living victims of atrocities--including Serbs themselves-- and the upholders of international law will demand a reckoning. And the question of collective responsibility can be assuaged only when Serbs take their hardest step yet: a thorough, painful look at the past that they have just repudiated...
Kostunica, who founded his tiny Democratic Party of Serbia eight years ago, has proved to be a shrewd politician in tune with the public mood. When local opposition supporters defied police efforts to break up a miners' strike in Kolubara on Wednesday, Kostunica raced to the scene in time to rally a cheering crowd of 10,000. In public appearances throughout the week, he referred to himself as Yugoslavia's President-elect, and while he said, "I don't like the word revolution," he recognized that ordinary Serbs would determine the outcome. Even before Milosevic's concession, Kostunica established...
...lifting of sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union won't help it recover anytime soon. An encouraging sign is Kostunica's free-market economic platform, drafted by a group of progressive, West-leaning economists. To push through reforms, Kostunica will rely heavily on the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, a conglomerate of 18 parties whose leaders disagree about almost everything. To maintain his majority in the federal parliament, he will have to work with former Milosevic supporters from Montenegro's Socialist People's Party, while protecting against mischief stirred up by Milosevic loyalists in the military and secret services...