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...former Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic, a lesser player who nevertheless attended key meetings, fretfully tells Time he will testify if local authorities provide him with sufficient legal and security guarantees. Principal trial attorney Geoffrey Nice was in Belgrade last month interviewing key figures whose testimony would be invaluable. They included Rade Markovic, once head of state security, now in a Belgrade prison facing murder charges: the threat of a long prison sentence might persuade him to rat on his old boss. Nice also interviewed Mihalj Kertes, former chief of the powerful customs service, and the notorious Franko "Frenki" Simatovic...
Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is often quoted as saying that Slobodan Milosevic "belongs to the past." The authors of the new history textbook used in Serbia's elementary schools don't seem to agree: Milosevic is not even mentioned in the book, while the decade of war and ethnic cleansing that resulted in the breakup of the country is handled in just two paragraphs. How could such a crucial period in Yugoslav history be dispatched so summarily? And how could Milosevic, the era's main protagonist, be excised from the account...
...criticized for their failure to nab Karadzic and Mladic so far, have recommitted themselves to the task. Rumors that a snatch may take place soon swirl around the region. DON'T TOUCH HIM! warn posters of Karadzic pasted up recently by a Serb cultural group in nearby northern Montenegro. Zoran Zuza, a well-informed Bosnian-Serb journalist and political analyst in the former wartime stronghold of Pale, says Karadzic "realizes that he has never been in such dire straits...
...midweek, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic gave U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell the assurances the American was seeking. Djindjic kept his word, despite a decision by a court, packed with Milosevic supporters, to overturn the order that would send him into exile. Vojislav Kostunica, Milosevic's successor as President of Yugoslavia, considered the handover "both illegal and unconstitutional," and the Prime Minister of the Yugoslav Federation, a comparatively powerless figure, resigned. But a majority of the ruling coalition supported sending Milosevic to the Hague, and Kostunica backed away from a threat to break up the government. Milosevic will face...
...spell the end of Yugoslavia's problems. The governing coalition is in the throes of collapse: last week Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia walked out of the Serbian and federal parliaments to protest the cabinet's override of the Constitutional Court's decision. The Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic and his Montenegrin Socialist People's Party also bolted, stripping the coalition of both its federal governing partner and its majority in the federal parliament. The likely political gridlock could hasten Montenegro's split from Yugoslavia and will hamper efforts to rebuild a devastated economy. A recent World Bank report...