Word: vojislav
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...Belgrade had forced him, early in 1997, to concede city hall to the opposition party chosen by the voters, and now it appears that Yugoslavia's voters have once more dealt their president a crushing blow. Although official results aren't expected before Tuesday, government sources claimed opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica had netted around 43 percent of votes, while a range of opposition and outside groups said Kostunica was favored by well above the 50 percent required to declare a first-round victory. But either way, the size of the opposition vote appears to have discouraged Milosevic from fraudulently claiming...
...nominate their own presidential candidate, while the other major opposition parties came together under the name of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS). What Milosevic failed to predict was that DOS would grow exponentially in strength and that it would produce a worthy opponent to Milosevic himself, Dr. Vojislav Kostunica...
...dirtiest campaign I've ever seen. There are vicious personal attacks on opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica, and intensive harassment of opposition activists. The authorities have been surprised by Kostunica's popularity, and they've mounted a near-hysterical propaganda campaign to stop him. There's a big opposition rally scheduled for Belgrade on Wednesday, but Milosevic won't be around. He's going to Montenegro to hold his first rally there since the Montenegrin government began moving toward independence...