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...nationalism, emotions no less powerful and gripping in Yugoslavia than in any other country. But that loyal core is enough, in the words of one Serb, to allow Milosevic "to steal any election." It also gives him the causes and crises that make him irreplaceable. "We are for Slobo because he is for us," explained Velimir Djurica at his plumbing stall in Belgrade's black market last week. "The foreign boot must...
...SLOBO AS SADDAM Yes, alas, the closer to the present, the more plausible the analogy. Air power alone will probably not depose the Serbian dictator any more than it did the Iraqi one. The bombing has not yet achieved even its first proclaimed objective of stopping Serbian atrocities in Kosovo. So, analogies past, we reach the unique dilemma of the present. One may feel a bit like the proverbial pedestrian at the crossroads who is asked the way by a motorist and says, "I wouldn't start from here." The story of wrong turnings goes right up to Rambouillet...
...demand that Milosevic abide by the results of the November 17 municipal elections. Not far away, Milosevic supporters - many of whom were elderly people and blue-collar workers bused into Belgrade from out of town - denounced the anti-government protesters as traitors and chanted "We won't give up Slobo." Members of the opposition voiced their concern that the pro-government rally was a ploy by Milosevic's Socialist Party to spark a violent confrontation and give them an excuse for cracking down on opposition demonstrators. Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic urged his followers to exercise restraint: "We are stronger...
Every uprising knows its demons on a first-name basis. The French railed at Louis and Marie Antoinette; the Russians at Nicholas and Alexandra; the Filipinos at Ferdinand and Imelda; the Romanians at Nicolae and Elena. Now, in Serbia, the targets are Slobo and Mira, the nicknames of President Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mirjana Markovic. So renowned is the President's wife--never call her the First Lady to her face--that she is being pilloried in her own right by the protesters in Belgrade...
...Slobo and Mira have two children: Marija, 31, and Marko, 23. Markovic once doted on Marija, whom she named for a Yugoslav war heroine, Marija Bursac. But, she told her official biographer, "I realized at one point that my Marija will never be Marija Bursac." Marija went on to study in the school of tourism. Today she runs a radio station owned by her mother's communist organization and dates a taxi driver turned gangster...