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...Vojislav Seselj is not a subtle man. During the Bosnian war, the veteran Serbian politician threatened to level the Croatian capital, Zagreb, with a nuclear bomb. Paramilitary units under his leadership did not carve out enemies' eyes with pocket knives, he once told a reporter, they used rusty spoons. He's even accused ex-President Slobodan Milosevic of being too tolerant of minorities. That resumé might be a liability in some parts of the world, but not in Serbia, where the leader of the Serbian Radical Party, 48, is expected to get 30% of the vote in presidential elections...
...membership in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The main reformist force in the country and propagator of reforms is the Serbian government led by Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who recently gave a much-praised speech at the Kennedy School of Government. The other major candidate is Vojislav Kostunica, president of Serbia and Montenegro, a traditionalist advocating a moderate pace of reforms, a stance he has much profited from in terms of popular support. He has tended to avoid any unpopular steps—what reforms are in fact to a large extent about?...
...trial earlier this year to 20% and stayed there. Approval of the international tribunal conversely continues to drop: now even the NATO alliance that bombed Belgrade, polls say, is held in higher public esteem. The Serb nationalism that Milosevic rode to power, meanwhile, is enjoying a modest revival. Ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj, Milosevic's own pick for President in elections at the end of this month, now claims 12% support, up from 4% in May. Those who hoped that the spectacle of the former President in the dock would shock Serbs into recognizing the crimes done in their name are having...
...accept the tribunal or dismiss it, says Sonja Biserko, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade, "We are going to be forced to confront things that haven't been discussed until now. The horror of the crimes will become self-evident." And the government of President Vojislav Kostunica may face dissent from within as the misdeeds of insiders - many of them still in office - are publicly aired for the first time and new witnesses are called upon to testify...
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, too, is worried about the instability secession could engender, perhaps by encouraging secessionists elsewhere, notably in Macedonia where ethnic Albanians launched an insurgency as part of an effort to obtain greater rights. And, he says, Europe would be saddled with "a tiny state that is economically hardly sustainable." E.U. and U.S. officials are pressing for "a democratic Montenegro in a democratic Yugoslavia," warning Djukanovic not to take any "unilateral actions." But if there is to be a referendum, they insist that the rules - including the form of the ballot question and the proportion of votes needed...