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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 3 PM), January 24, 1997

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    STUDENTS STILL IN KOLARCEVA STREET

    Students from Belgrade University are still facing a cordon of
    riot police in an attempt to outlast them. Many prominent Serbian
    artists and TV personalities addressed the crowd. Several
    employees of the state-owned Third Channel announced their
    resignations. A letter of support from Savo Milosevic, the Serbian
    football star currently playing in England, was read aloud. Radio
    B92 reports that one of the police officers asked students if they
    could play him the rock-song ``Mentally Retarded'' because he
    wants to dedicate it to his commanders. ``I don't know why they
    keep us here,'' he said.


    DEMOCRATS' SPOKESMAN: SHADOW GOVERNMENT WILL SOON BE FORMED

    Spokesman of the Democratic Party Slobodan Vuksanovic announced
    today that the opposition coalition Zajedno is working on the
    creation of a shadow government made up of the most prominent
    experts in the country. At the press conference, Vuksanovic said
    that one of the items on the agenda of this government would be
    the programme for economic recovery created by an expert team of
    the most important economists. ``It is just a matter of time until
    the regime have to withdraw faced with all-out resistance. A
    strong police presence in the streets has a double goal;to
    frighten the citizens and to provoke incidents which would serve
    as an alibi for the use of violence. Neither of these goals will
    be achieved. Citizens are cleverer than the police and are not
    easily provoked. We have the most expensive police in the world,
    while some other citizens do not get any salary. Instead of
    chasing criminals, police fight against the citizens who demand
    their basic human rights,'' claimed Vuksanovic.


    POLICE LEFT BUILDING OF TV KRAGUJEVAC

    On Friday, about 1 PM, police left the local media building in the
    city of Kragujevac. This was the outcome of an agreement reached
    by the General Manager of the state-owned RTS network, Dragoljub
    Milanovic and the newly elected manager of the local TV
    Kragujevac, Vidosav Stefanovic. The agreement that TV Kragujevac
    must stop its broadcasts until the court reaches a final decision
    about who controls it. The local weekly paper Svetlost will also
    not be published. Radio will continue its broadcasts, but without
    any news service.


    DJINDJIC: I SEE NO SPACE FOR OSCE MEDIATION

    Zoran Djindjic, Head of the Democratic Party, talking to Radio B92
    said that negotiations imply the possibility of a deal. ``I do not
    see any room for negotiation. The basic elements of the problem
    are the results from November 17 elections, which were inspected
    by the OSCE commission, and the authorities who do not want to
    recognize those elections. We do not have room for manoeuvering.''


    ZAJEDNO LEGAL EXPERT: JUDICIAL PING-PONG GOES ON

    Head of the Law Team of the coalition Zajedno, Dragor Hiber, joked
    that ``judicial ping-pong goes on.'' According to his analysis,
    the Municipal Court cannot reach any decision on the election
    results because the City's Electoral Commission demand that all
    judges are excluded. The same applies to the Supreme Court. ``Law
    is wrapped in fog, in order for the decision be postponed and
    denied somewhere else,'' said Hiber.


    MONTENEGRIN GOVERNMENT: NO FINANCIAL RE-INTEGRATION THIS YEAR

    The Montenegrin Government will urge the Federal Government to
    implement all measures necessary for the speedy re-integration of
    Yugoslavia into the international community, reports Montena-Fax.
    The Montenegrin Government wants the normalization of relations
    with the international community, especially international
    financial institutions, in order to proctect Montenegro's
    financial interests.


    KRAJISNIK TALKED TO LE PENN

    The Serb member of Bosnia's collective presidency, Momcilo
    Krajisnik, has had talks with the leader of the French far-right
    nationalist party, Jean Marie Le Penn, reports the FoNet agency.
    Mr Le Penn stressed that Serbs had suffered in the war as well as
    other ethnic groups and had the right to live without threat of
    economic sanctions. Le Penn said his party was the only one in
    France to oppose the sending of French troops to the Balkans and
    the bombing of the Bosnian Serb republic.


    ZAGREB RADIO 101 GIVEN FREQUENCY

    The Croatian authorities today granted a broadcasting licence to
    the independent radio station 101 covering the capital, Zagreb.
    The threat that 101 might be closed sparked mass demonstrations in
    Zagreb last year.

    Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
    Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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