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Slobodan Milosevic admits he lost Yugoslavia's presidential election, but not the full extent of his defeat - and that sets the stage for a dramatic showdown with an opposition ready to take to the streets to claim its victory. Preliminary official results announced Tuesday put opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica eight points ahead of the Serb strongman, but deny him the 50 percent margin required to claim first-round victory. Opposition leaders scoff at the figures released by Milosevic's electoral commission, confidently claiming that independent officials monitoring the count at local ballot stations confirm that Kostunica won 55 percent...
...dramatically against Milosevic. If even the official election results reflect a defeat by the opposition, it may be only a matter of time before the military, business and political elites that have kept the Serb strongman in power begin trying to secure their own positions in a post-Milosevic Yugoslavia. Already the rabid nationalists of Vojislav Seselj's Radical Party - once the most bellicose backers of Milosevic's military misadventures of the past decade - have jumped ship, proclaiming a Kostunica victory and urging that it be respected. Kostunica is no NATO shill - he even suggested the Western alliance may have...
...even for a felon as seasoned as Slobodan Milosevic - and that makes the Serb strongman more likely to play for time, or even start another war somewhere as an excuse to hang on to power. As results poured in Monday from ballot boxes from all over what remains of Yugoslavia, the bitter winter of 1996-97 may be weighing heavily on Milosevic's mind. Weeks of massive street demonstrations in 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...
...hook on Whitewater, but Bill Clinton is in deep, deep trouble in Belgrade. In fact, if he ever sets foot in Yugoslavia, he'll go straight to the Big House - and whatever assets he may be carrying will be impounded to help pay the "costs" of his war crimes trial in the Belgrade District Court. The trial of Clinton, British prime minister Tony Blair and 12 other NATO leaders for alleged war crimes committed against civilians during last year's Kosovo campaign wrapped up Thursday, with guilty verdicts and 20-year sentences all around. So dense was the "book" thrown...
Srdjan L. Tanjga '01 is an applied math concentrator in Lowell House. He is a native of Belgrade, Yugoslavia and has been an active member of "Otpor," the pro-democracy movement in Belgrade, for the past five years...