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Letter: Talking to Milosevic

Sir: While Justin Huggler rightly points out the problems of vulnerable people in Europe this winter, ("700,000 Europeans face a cruel winter under canvas", 25 November), it is disappointing to see that the needs in Serbia and Montenegro have again been ignored. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia currently has the largest refugee and displaced population in Europe.

Dying leader leaves `rogue' Croatia to uncertain fate

CROATIA IS waiting. Its President, Franjo Tudjman, lies in a suburban hospital, apparently close to death and stripped of his powers. Parliamentary elections called yesterday for early January could sweep away the ruling party.

The Trojan horse that `started' a 79-day war

IN THE LAST days of the Paris peace talks on Yugoslavia last March, something extraordinary happened. The Serb delegation - after agreeing to a political revolution in Kosovo - was presented with a military appendix to the treaty which demanded the virtual Nato occupation of all Yugoslavia. The Serbs turned it down and Nato went to war. Yet 79 days later, Nato - which had refused to contemplate a change in the military document - lost all interest in the annexe and at the final dramatic meetings on the Macedonian border was content with a Nato force inside only Kosovo.

French `hitmen plotting to assassinate Milosevic'

FIVE MEMBERS of a supposed hit-squad allegedly paid and organised by the French security services to assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic have been arrested, the Yugoslav government claimed yesterday.

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Students beaten by police in Belgrade protest

AT LEAST a dozen people rallying against President Slobodan Milosevic were severely beaten by baton-wielding Serbian police in Belgrade yesterday as a column of 2,000 students attempted to reach the parliament building.

Serb dies in grenade blast as ethnic Albanians step up revenge attacks

A SERB man was killed in a grenade attack on a village in south- eastern Kosovo, Nato said yesterday as ethnic Albanians intensified their series of attacks on Serbs who stayed.

Football: U-21 game switched

UEFA YESTERDAY decided England's Under-21 European Championship play-off tie with Yugoslavia will be a one-legged affair in a neutral country because of fears over security. The match is scheduled to be played in Luxembourg's National Stadium on Sunday, 14 November, the venue for last year's European Championship game between that country and the full England side.

Football: Neutral venue chosen for young England tie

UEFA YESTERDAY decided England's Under-21 European Championship play-off tie with Yugoslavia will be a one-legged affair in a neutral country because of fears over security. The match is scheduled to be played in Luxembourg's National Stadium on Sunday, 14 November, the venue for last year's European Championship game between that country and the full England side.

Theatre: Cromwell's Ireland, Milosevic's Yugoslavia

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40,000 Slavs on protest march rattle Milosevic government

FORTY THOUSAND people took to the streets of the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, this weekend in the biggest demonstration so far in the postwar wave of protests against the government of President Slobodan Milosevic.

Frontline Podgorica, Montenegro: Breaking up from Serbia is hard to do

TO KNOW how dead Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia is, come to Montenegro, Serbia's last remaining partner in the Yugoslav federation.
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