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YUGOSLAVIA: CENTRIFUGAL fORCES INCREASINGLY EViC'NT
ETHNIC PASSIONS PITT'NG SERBS AGAINST CROATS AND SLOVENES ANO SERBS AGAINST ETHNIC ALBANIANS INROVINCE CONTINUE* TEN YUCOSI AVIA'S INTEGRITY.
THE NEW SLOvTNt AsO CROATIAN GOVERNMENTS ARE EMPHASISING TH( IR INTENTION TO RESTRUCTURE YUGOSLAVIA OR SECEDE. SLOVENIA'S IOREIGN MINISTER RUPEL IS LEADING E'fGRTS TO WIN INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT fOR THE REPUBLIC BY ANNOUNCING THE OPENING 0' "CULTURAL INFORMATIONAL CENTERS' * IN BRUSSELS ANO MUNICH; HE WILL SEEK US SUPPORT ASHINGTON VISIT NEAT MONTH. SLOVENIA'S PR IME MINISTER PFTERlE REITERATES THIS WEEK THAT NlS REPUBLIC WILL NO LONGER CONTRIBUTE 'UNOS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR YUGOSLAVIA'S UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS. CROATIAN PRESIDENT TUOJMAN ECENT INTERVIEW ONCE AID HE PLANS TO LEAO CROATIA TO CONFEDERATION OR INDEPENDENCE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE; HE CLAIMEO THAT THE BOSNIAN ANOfRpATI AH REPUBLICS AREEOPOLITICAL UNIT THAT BELONG TOGE THER. ifl |rT*
SERBIAN PRISiDthT MILOSEVIC IS UNDER GROWING PRESSURE FROM SERBIAN NATIONALISTS- VUK DRASKOVIC'S EATRfntST SERB'AH RENEWAL MOVEMENT, WHICH DOMINATE? THE RECENT Dl"ONSTRAlIONS IN BELGRADE IS CALLING OH SERBIA TO SUBDUE ITS ETHNICALLY ALBANIAN PROVINCE OF KOSOVO ONCE ANO FOR ALL. SERBIAN AND ALBANIAN DELEGATES TO THE KOSOVO LEGISLATURE ARE BATTLING OVER THE EXTENT TOEW CONSTITUTION SHOUlO GUASANTEE ALBANIAN AUTONOMY. ULTRANATIT SERBIAN GROUPS if Ht CRACKS QOWH
PLANS TOtNG KOSOVO UNDER
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THE RESURGENCE OF RICHTWING NATIONALISM IN SERBIA IS
FORCING MILOSEVIC TOARO LINE ON KOSOVO AND ON PROTECTING ETHNIC SERBS IN BOSNIA AND CROATIA. TuQjMANS BjECENT STATEMENTS OH BOSNIA WILL ADO TO h SERBIA
'THE SITUATION IN KOSOVO IS CURRENTLY THE MOST EIPLOSlVfi ERBIAN DECLARATION Of MARTIAL LAWUSPENSION 0* THE KOSOVO LEGISLATURE WOULO SPARK COMMUNAL VIOLENCE. THE RIFT BETWEENNO THE NORTHERN REPuB.iCS WOULDEN; SLOVEN IA AND CROATIA ALMOST CERTUJtLJL^CULDSTANCE THEMSELVES FROM SERBIAN REPRESSION
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