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...Karadzic, the beauty of the Serb Republic has been the influence of his Serb Democratic Party. The ranks of the government and police include hard-liners who fought with him during the war and remain loyal. But the party's standing is on the wane. The new Prime Minister, Mladen Ivanic, is a moderate. He visited the Hague shortly after Milosevic's transfer and said, "We are ready for extradition. If I were Karadzic, I'd turn myself in." Last week Ivanic introduced a bill in the local parliament designed, he said, to prepare the way for the transfer...
...justification for raising ticket prices 300%. Another innovation Suwarso has in mind: season tickets. Amazingly, that would be a first in the National League. "No team has ever made a profit in Indonesian football," says Suwarso, a soccer fan who didn't let his enthusiasm for the game wane during his four years at Indiana's Purdue University. "My whole club is designed to make money...
...likelihood is that Japan will just muddle through, much in the same way the Japanese government has muddled through the past 10 recession-filled, confidence-depleting years. Says playwright Yamazaki, whose devotion to the Giants began to wane after Watanabe forced the free-agent system on the other owners in 1993: "Let Japanese players go to the States. That is good for Japanese baseball because someday they will come back and raise the level of the sport. Japanese baseball is like Japanese politics. One is dominated by the Giants, the other by the ldp. It will take time to liberate...
...same time, nationalism is on the wane among the young professional cadre in Eastern and Central Europe. But that's good news for supporters of expansion. "I don't feel any national belonging," says Gabriela Novotna, 28, a lawyer in Prague. "We are all people living in Europe. It's all the same to me if somebody is German, French, Vietnamese or Chinese." She, for one, has no reservations about the E.U.: "The European Union will bring light into our lives...
...Ironies aside, the demise of Milosevic has strengthened the tendency in NATO to discourage any redrawing of sovereign borders in the Balkans. And Western enthusiasm for policing the region's tribal wars will inevitably wane in proportion to any increase in direct danger to their troops. For some, that appears to make a compelling case for bringing back the Yugoslav army to police the borders NATO is now committed to upholding. Who knows, at this rate they may yet find themselves pining for the former Yugoslavia...