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Stanisic, 46, spent the first 14 years of his career working his way up the ladder of the Yugoslav secret police. In 1988 he was promoted to chief of Belgrade's security operations. It was in this position that he first caught the attention of Milosevic, who had been elected President of Serbia the year before. In March 1991, three months before the Balkan wars began, the President placed Stanisic in charge of Serbia's entire security service...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Student protesters in Yugoslavia may have won a powerful ally: the army. A group of students emerged from a meeting with General Momcilo Perisic, head of the Yugoslav army, with guarantees that he would not interfere with their pro-democracy demonstrations. "We got firm assurances it will be so, and we are very pleased," said Dusan Vasiljevic, one of the students. If the army holds to its pledge, it represents a shift in the role that the military will play in Belgrade. In March of 1991, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic brought army tanks onto the streets of Belgrade...
Markovic, however, is very powerful. She is the leader of the Yugoslav United Left, an alliance of some 20 communist groups aligned with her husband's socialist party. Her column in Duga, a Belgrade bimonthly magazine, is closely watched for the latest clues to her husband's policies. Her cryptic comments, intermingled with poetic observations on weather, have led Serbs to call her column "the Horoscope." In addition, Markovic believes herself to be clairvoyant and claims to have foreseen the disintegration of Yugoslavia while seated on a beach near Dubrovnik with her husband...
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...
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Only opposition candidate who stood a chance of defeating him drops out of Yugoslav race...