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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 10 PM), March 8, 1997

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    NEWS BY 10 PM
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    RADIO B92 ANNOUNCEMENT

    From now on Radio B92 will put out one bulletin only at weekends.
    If the need arises, the number of weekend bulletins will be
    increased.


    STUDENTS WILL WAIT FOR CONFIRMATION OF CHANCELLOR'S RESIGNATION

    Belgrade students on Saturday went for a protest walk which they
    christened ``Narrowing Of The Borders Of The Forbidden City.''
    They tried to enter the borough of Dedinje, where the Serbian
    President lives. They had hoped to succeed because of the large
    crowds of football fans travelling to a match at the nearby
    stadium, but, as on previous occasions, they were stopped by a
    riot police cordon, Radio B92 reports. The Main Board of the
    Student Protest announced that the students will hold rallies on
    Monday in all University Schools and then decide whether they will
    end their protest walks. They will definitely gather in front of
    the Rectory building on March 20, to wait and see if the
    University Council will confirm the resignations of the University
    Chancellor and the student pro-rector. If not, they have announced
    that the protests will continue and more radical demands will be
    made. A new protest walk was announced for Sunday at 2 p.m.


    MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER ON MONDAY IN USA

    The Montenegrin Prime Minister, Milo Djukanovic, will pay a
    working visit to USA on Monday, FoNet reports. Mr. Djukanovic will
    meet US Deputy State Secretary and American Peace Envoy for Former
    Yugoslavia, John Cornbloom, representatives from the American
    Ministry of Finance, the International Monetary Fund and the World
    Bank, and also a group of congressmen and senators.


    ZAJEDNO WILL WORK ON COOPERATION WITH EU

    The Zajedno coalition's press office on Saturday announced that
    the coalition will continue its efforts to protect the interests
    of the state and its citizens, FoNet reports. Zajedno expressed
    the hope that the European Union will react positively towards
    Yugoslavia, and that the EU will take the extremely difficult
    economic situation in Yugoslavia into consideration.


    CROWN PRINCE'S MESSAGE TO ZAJEDNO LEADERS

    The heir to the Yugoslav throne, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, sent a
    message to the Zajedno coalition, the students and all other
    ``participants in the democratic movement,'' FoNet reports. ``Six
    years ago, on this date (March 9), the regime sent tanks to quell
    the popular protest... this year you will hold a rally, to mark
    the anniversary. Freedom of the media comes first, but the other
    democratic reforms should not be forgotten,'' says the Crown
    Prince in his message, expressing his hope that this time
    ``democratic reforms will actually happen.''


    KOSOVO MAY HAVE ``SERBIAN SARAJEVO SYNDROME''

    The President of the Serbian Resistance Movement of Kosovo,
    Momcilo Trajkovic, said that the Albanians are preparing to
    present unanimous demands at the forthcoming Serb-Albanian talks
    in New York: all 11 of their political parties want just one thing
    -- secession and an independent Albanian Kosovo. Meanwhile the
    Serbs have not yet agreed on what they really want. Mr. Trajkovic
    also commented that Serbs would never agree to live in an Albanian
    republic. ``If that happened, then the Serbs would have to strike
    back by declaring a Serbian Republic of Kosovo. If we did not do
    that, there would be mass migratation of Serbs from Kosovo, and
    cause problems like those in Serbian Sarajevo. Milosevic's regime
    is keeping the Kosovian Serbs' predicament as the last ace in his
    game to preserve his power, and the opposition runs away from this
    hot potato, thinking that democracy must be first on the agenda.
    One should be objective, Serbs from Kosovo bear part of the
    responsibility too, because they let Milosevic use them as a tool
    for stopping democracy in Serbia,'' concluded Mr. Trajkovic.


    VOJISLAV SESELJ MEDIA IN SERBIA

    The Serbian Radical Party on Saturday announced that it would
    demand the freedom of media financed from the state budget. The
    leader of the Radicals, Vojislav Seselj, said that radio and TV
    stations in many cities under the control of ``so-called, alleged
    democratic parties, broadcast Voice of America, 'Deutche Welle',
    Radio Free Europe and Muslim television programmes from Sarajevo.
    They should broadcast only Serbian programmes instead,'' Beta
    reports.


    ALTHOUGH INTERNATIONALLY AIDED, BOSNIAN MEDIA REMAIN NATIONALIST

    Millions of dollars of aid, intended to help create an independent
    media in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been wasted, the
    International Crisis Group said on Saturday. The Bosnian media
    remains highly nationalist and divisive 15 months after Dayton and
    despite a lot of international support.

    Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
    Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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