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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 3 PM), February 8, 1997

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    DJINDJIC: NO BID FOR PRESIDENT

    Zajedno leader Zoran Djindjic, speaking to Hungarian media in
    Belgrade on Friday, said that the Serbian opposition would end
    street protests once the election results had been recognized.

    However he said they they would not give uptheir demands for
    changes in electoral laws and freedom of the state media.

    Mr Djindjic also said that Zajedno members of the Serbian
    parliament would not attend the session at which the government's
    lex specialis was to be debated.

    Asked whether he would be Zajedno's candidate for president at the
    Serbian elections, Mr Djindjic said that he did not want to run
    for president at the next elections because he was ``not that
    type,'' nor did he have time for it, but that he would be
    interested in the post of Mayor of Belgrade.


    NEW PARTNER IN BK TELEVISION

    Belgrade weekly Nedeljni Telegraf claims that 49% of independent
    Belgrade broadcaster BK Televesion has been sold by owner Bogoljub
    Karic to unnamed American partners. Karic has vested the remaining
    51% in the Balkan Information Corporation, a consortium of Greek,
    Bulgarian and Romanian television networks.

    This move protects the indpendent broadcaster from potential
    conflict with Serbian state television, RTS.

    There have been mutual accusations of unsettled debts between BKTV
    and RTS during the past week, with the state broadcaster
    threatening to terminate a contract leasing transmission
    facilities to the independent. The issue appears to have been
    resolved when RTS General Manager Dragoljub Milanovic proposed a
    new contract, but further details are unknown, Nedeljni Telegraf
    reports.


    ARMY BRIGADE FOR DEMONSTRATORS

    Nedeljni Telegraf quotes sources close to the Yugoslav Army as
    saying that the Command of the Armoured Brigade in Belgrade
    requested permission to take tanks onto the streetson the night of
    February 2. The intention of the action was to protect citizens
    from police brutality. Army Supreme Command refused to approve the
    order, and the intervention was abandoned, according to the
    Belgrade weekly.


    MILOSEVIC DEFIES LOGIC

    The London daily ``Independent'' in its Saturday's issue says that
    Serbian President, Slobodan Milosevic has avoided crisis after
    crisis, while foreign diplomats sit and watch. The paper
    emphasizes that no other political leader has been known to
    survive two lost wars, the economic collapse of his nationa and
    political humiliation from the international community, but
    Milosevic has survived all of these, continuing to resist all laws
    of logic. After a promising period following the Dayton agreement,
    Serbia is again an unstable, despotic, corrupt country, the
    Independent claims.

    Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
    Edited by: Steve Agnew

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