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OUR G■MAN JIM CLANCY NOW G■
A LONG LOOK AT YUGOSLAVIA
ON THE EDGE.
YUGOSLAVIA EWING!
>> THOUSANDS OF COMMUNIST
CAN HARDLINERS GATHERED TO
DEMAND THE UNTRY REMAIN
AS ONE STATED THAT
INDEPENDENCE MOVENTS BE
CRUSHED BY FORCE
NECESSARY.
IN THE STREETS OF THE
CAPIL, ANTI-COMMUNISTS
BATTLE POLICE AND MAKE
COMMANDS OF THEIR OWNS.
>> THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN
YUGOSLAV DO NOT WANT THE
COMMUNIST REGIME TO GO ON
ANY LONGERBECAUSE WE HAD
ENOUGH OF THAT.
>> AT CHECKPOINTS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY POLICE SEARCH
CARS AND TCKS FOR GUNS.
THERE ARE PLENTY OF THEM IN
YUGOSLAVIA TODAY IN THE
HANDS OF CITIZEN ARES AND
SECRETLY ITHE HANDS OF
ETHNIC AND NATIONALIST
EXTREMIS.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS
ALL BUT PARALYZEDED STATE
OWD FACTORIELAID OFF
THOUSANDS.
THOUSANDS OF OTHERS HAVEN'T
BEEN PAID IN MONTHS.
THROUGH IT ALL, POLITICIANS
INFLAME E PASSIONS OF
CITIZENS IN EVERY CORR OF
THE LAND.
NOT ONE OF THEM, IT SEEM
WANTS THE SAME THG
ANYMORE, BUT ALL OF THEM
HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON.
>> THEY ARE ALL ILDREN OF
TITO.
AND THEY CAN'T BE ANYTHING
ELSEBUT SUCH PEOPLE; YOU
KNOW .
>> THEY MUST BE THE
MAERS, THEY MUCK THE
RURS, THAT'S ALL.
>> JOSEPTITO, MARSHAL
TITO, A MAER AND RULER.
HE WAS THE COMMUNIST WHO
STOOD UP TO STALIN AND
FORGED A SOCIALIST, BUT
INDEPENDENT YUGOSLAVIA FROM
THE OLDERING RUINS OF THE
BALTANS AFTER WORLD WAR II.
>> HIS IRON RULE KEPT
YUGOSLAVIA TOGETHER AS ONE.
TITO'S DEATH A DECADE AGO
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THEMSELVES THE SOCIALIST
PARTY OF SERBIA.
IT IS SERBIA'S FORMER
COMMUNISTS WHOARE
DETERMINED TO PREVENT ANY
BREAKUP OF YUGOSLAVIA.
SERBIAAY BE THE LARGEST
REPUBLIC, BUT IT IS NOT THE
RICHEST.
IF CROATIA AND SLOVENIA
BREAK AWAY, SERBIA WILL
LOSE MOST OF ITS ECONOMIC
AND POTICAL CLOUT.
>> SAYING HE DIDN'T WANT
ANY PART IN THE
DISINTEGRATION OF
YUGOSLAVIA, PRESIDENT
BORIS JOVIC SIGNED LAST
WEEK.
SERBIAN MMUNISTS
SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING TANKS
TO THE STREETS OF THEIR OWN
CAPITAL BUT FAILED IEIR
BID TO GIVE THE ARMY
SPECIAL POWERS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY TO BRING
INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS BACK
INTO LINE.
>> AS FOR THE ARMY
UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S
DOMINATED BY DOGMATIC
COMMUNIST ELEMENTS AND
UNFORTUNATELY THEY HAVE
IDENTIFIED TOO MUCH WITH
SERBIAN AND KPWHIFT
POLITICS.
HE S CROATIA WILL FIGHT
RATHER THAN ABDON ITS
DRIVE TOWARDS INDEPENNCE,
AND GUNS WERE PASSED OUT TO
CITIZENS TO PROVE IT.
BUT CROAA'S POPULATION OF
FIVE MILLION INCLUDES
ALMOST A MILLION SERBIANS
AND HE FACES AN
INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT HE
NEVER HAD IN MIND.
INWESTERN CROATIA A SMALL
TOWN DECLARED INDENDENCE.
THE LOCAL MILITIA CALLED UP
RESERVES, HANDED OUT
WEAPONS AND SEUP
CHECKPNTS TO KEEP
CROATION POLICE OUT.
>> THE DECISION WAS MADE
BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO
LIVE IN AN INDEPENDENT
STATE OF CROATIA.
WE SIMPLY WANT TO STAY THE
REST OF YOSLAVINO
MATTER WHAT THE NAME WILL
BE.
>> THE LOCAL SERBIAN RADIO
STATION BEAMS ITS OWN NEWS
IN SERBIAN TOTHOUSANDS OF
LOCAL RESIDENTS.
SCHOOLS OFFER LANGUAGE AND
CULTURAL COURSES THAT
PRESERVE THE ETHNIC
HERITAGE.
ME OF THE MONEY TO KEEP
THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT
ALIVE HERE COMES FROM
BELGRADE.
AND WESTERN DIPLOMATS SAY
THCOMMUNIST DOMINATED
GOVERNMENT OF IS PULLING
THE STRINGS.
SO TOO IS THE ARMY.
YUGOSLAVIA MILITARY
SECRET POLICE MADE THIS
VIDEOTAPE OF CROATIA'S
DEFENSE MINISTER AN
RELEASED IT TO TELEVISION
STATIONS.
IT REPORTS TO SHOW THE
GENERAL TELLING FRIENDS
THAT HIS FORCES WILL KILL
SERBIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
IN THE STREETS.
THE PRESIDENT SAYS IT'S AN
OLD BOLSHEVIC TRICK, THAT
CROATIA HAS NOSUCH PLANS.
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NATIgoONISTS AND PROVIDE TH
REPUBLIC WITH A MUCH BETTER
ECONOMIC BASE.
ITWOULD ALSO BE CERTAIN TO
START A CIVIL W BETWEEN
SERBIA AND CROATIA THAT
WOULD QUICKLY ENGULF THE
ENTIRE CNTRY.
THE COSTS OF SUCH A R ARE
WELL KNOWN.
OF THE 1.7 MILLION
YUGOSLAVIANS WHO DIED IN
WORLD WAR II, 1.2 MILLION
WERE KILLED BY ONE ANOTHER.
E CONCENTRATION CAMP IS A
CHILNG REMINDER THE
CONFLICT.
SET UP BY THE NAZIS TO
EXTERMINATE JEWS IT BECAME
AN ETHNIC KIING GROUND.
>> THESE VICTIMS ARE SO
HORRIFYING, GREAT, THEY
SHOULD REPRESENT THE
WARNINTO US ALL.
50,000 MEN, WOMEN AND
CHILDREN WERE TORTURED AND
KILLED.
NOT BY GAS AND GUNSHOTS,
BUT BY HAMMERS, CLUBS,
KNIVES AND DROWNING.
IT WASN INDEPENDENT STATE
OF CROATIA THAT AD CONTRO
& HALF A MILLION OF THE
VICTS WERE SIRBS, BUT THE
KILLING INUDED CROATIANS,
COMMUNISTS OF ANY RACE, AND
JEWS AS L.
>> CROATIA'S PRESIDENT ,
HIS BROTHEWAS A VICTIM OF
A SIMILAR CP.
SOME SAY HE DOWNPLAYS THE
HORROR OF THIS PART OF
CROATIA'S HISTORY.
>> AT THE SAME TIME
CROATIAN PEOPLE DIEDFROM
SERBIANS IN THE SAME NUMBER.
THE NEW OATIAN GOVERNMENT
HASUT CAN THE BUDGET AND
REDUCED THE STF OF THE
MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM.
SCHOOL CHILDREN NOLONGER
COME HERE.
VISITORS HAVE DWINDLED FROM
ALMOST A THSA A0DAY TO
ONLY TWO OR THREE RELATIVES
TO COME TO VIEW ALL THAT IS
LEFT OF THREE QUARTERS OF A
MILLION PEOPLE.
ONE OF THOSE WHO STILL
VISITS THE CAMP IS TH
MAN, A SERBIAN
ANTI-COMMUNIST WHO LED
MONSTRATIO IN THE
STREETS OF BELGRADE AND
WANTS NEW ELECTIONS IN
SERBIAN.
DRAFK DRAFK IS A SERBIAN
NATIONIST WHRO OPPOSES --
SEES ONLY ONE WAY FOR
YUGOSLAVIA A ITS PPLE
TO SURVIVE.
>> TAL TALK,NOBODY WANTS
THE WA
NOBODY WANTS TO BEILLED.
>> IN MANY WAYS,
YUGOSLAVIA'S FUTURE IS
BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY ITS
PAST.
COMPETING EMPIRES AND
RELIGIONS HAVE LEFT AN
INDELIBLE MARK ON THE
PEOPLE OF THE BALTANS, EVEN
MORE THAN ON THE MAPS.
E BURDEN OF HISTORY
DOESN'T MEAN CIVIL WAR IS
CERTAIN IN YUGOSLAVIA, BUT
IT CERTAINLY MEANS THAT
FINDING THE PEACE WILL BE