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Odraz B92 Daily News Service

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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 5 PM), February 14, 1997

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    NEWS BY 5 PM
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    PART-TIME EMPLOYEES OF TV 'POLITIKA' ON STRIKE

    Part-time employees at Belgrade Television 'Politika' began a
    strike on Friday in protest at overdue salaries and uncertain
    employment status.

    Some 150 part-time journalists and other programme workers at TV
    'Politika' gathered at 11:55 a.m. in front of the station in
    central Belgrade. The TV staff announced they would protest daily
    at the same place and time. Sasa Petrovic, one of the strikers,
    told BETA on Friday that TV 'Politika' had hired a TV crew from
    Radio Television Serbia (RTS) to cover for the striking crew and,
    according to Mr. Petrovic, offered them 100 German marks for the
    job.


    SAVING ACCOUNT HOLDERS PROTEST

    The Association of Stolen Saving Accounts again protested on
    Friday at, what they called, the government theft of their hard-
    earned savings. Ms. Milka Orlic, Chair of the Association of
    customers from the 'Dafiment Bank', told Radio B92 that they
    intended to send a delegation to meet with Minister Vukasin
    Jokanovic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic next Wednesday.


    SPO -- MONEY FOR PENSIONS LEFT COUNTRY LONG AGO

    Opposition Serbian Renewal Movement said that money earmarked for
    pensions had long ago been transfered abroad to the private
    accounts of state officials.

    The SPO statement was a reaction to the Serbian Pension Insurance
    Service's allegation that the Zajedno coalition had blocked
    lucrative international deals and was therefore responsible for
    the empty pension coffers.


    NEW CITY GOVERNMENT IN NOVI SAD INHERITS EMPTY FUNDS AND DEBTS

    Caslav Popovic, Chair of the Executive Council of the Novi Sad
    City Assembly, said on Friday that their only inheritance from the
    outgoing Socialists were empty bank accounts and debts, BETA
    reported on Friday.

    Mihajlo Svilar, Mayor of Novi Sad, also announced on Friday that
    new officials in that city government had submitted lists of their
    assets to the public, in order to prevent any abuse of their posts
    in the future.


    LETTER TO MINISTER OF INFORMATION ON PURGE OF JOURNALISTS AT RADIO
    TELEVISION SERBIA'S THIRD CHANNEL

    Fired and suspended employees of Radio Television Serbia's Third
    Channel sent a letter to the new Serbian Minister of Information,
    Radmila Milentijevic, on Friday. In that letter the disgruntled
    RTS staff complained that a true purge of RTS's third channel had
    been carried out by TV management, BETA reported.


    FRENCH EXPERTS DENIED VISAS

    Kragujevac City Government stated on Friday that a group of French
    experts, who had been invited to examine the quality of local
    water supplies, the problem of waste-disposal and aero-pollution,
    were denied visas by the Yugoslav Embassy in France, BETA
    reported.


    BILDT: I BELIEVE ALL SIDES WILL RESPECT AGREEMENT

    UN High Commissioner for Bosnia and Herzegovina Carl Bildt said,
    after the Friday meeting in Rome of the Brcko Arbitration
    Commission, that the decision to keep the town under international
    supervision for another year was an important step ahead in the
    implementation of the peace agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    Mr. Bildt added that he believed all authorities in Bosnia and
    Herzegovina, the Republic of Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia
    and Herzegovina, would fully respect and implement the agreement,
    BETA reported.

    Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
    Edited by: Julia Glyn-Pickett

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