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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 9 PM), March 9, 1997

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    NEWS BY 9 PM
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    EDUCATION MINISTER ON UNVERSITY TEACHNING

    Serbian Education Minister Jovo Todorovic told the state-
    controlled TV station 'Politika' on Sunday that the Government
    would take appropriate measures if University teaching was not
    resumed on Monday and that those faculties which failed to comply
    would be denied funding. He said that the lost classes would be
    made up for during the summer if teaching was resumed on March 10
    or a day or two later, and in this way the school year would not
    be lost.


    STUDENTS: A DAY LONGER

    Student spokesman Dusan Popovic told students who gathered for
    Sunday's protest march that the students would gather at the
    plateau in front of the School of Philosphy at 14:00 hours on
    Monday, after meeting in their faculties, to show that ``We
    persevered for a day longer.'' The students will go to the
    Ministry of Education and show the Educaton Minister that they
    would not bow to any threat. The Student Protest leaders were
    insistent that it is the students who decide when to begin and end
    their protests.


    DZADZUC TO INTRODUCE PUNISHMENTS FOR DISSATISFIED JOURNALISTS

    General Manager of the Belgrade weekly 'NIN', Tomislav Dzadzic,
    announced on Sunday that he would take legal action against those
    of the weekly's journalists who ``have done 'NIN' the greatest
    damage and done their best to destabilize it.''  The majority of
    the weekly's editorial staff have announced they will go on strike
    on Monday, in protest against the sacking of the editor-in-chief,
    Dusan Velickovic. General Manager Dzadzic said that the strike was
    not legal, that those in favour of it were not the majority and
    that the decision to replace the Editor in Chief's was perfectly
    legal, according to Beta. The Strike Board of the weekly's
    journalists said that General Manager's threats of sackings had
    not discouraged them.


    BOGOLJUB KARIC: I HAVE NEVER SAID I WOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT,
    NEITER HAVE I SAID I WOULD NOT

    In an interview with the Belgrade independent weekly 'Vreme',
    Bogoljub Karic, one of the wealthiest Serbian businessmen, was
    asked whether he would run for the forthcoming presidential
    elections in Serbia. He replied: ``The next president must make
    Serbia one of the acknowledged and respected European countries
    and lead the country into the modern age of respect for the
    integrity of every single one of its citizens. Simply, those in
    power must be responsible and replacable, the citizens must be
    protected and must respect their duties... There must be no one
    [in power] who is greater and more important than Serbia itself. I
    do not know who can accomplish this as president, but I will
    support anyone who can guarantee the things that I have just
    listed... I have never said that I will run for president, neither
    have I said I will not.''

    Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
    Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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