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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 3 PM), March 2, 1997

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    UNIVERSITY STAFF ASSEMBLY DISCARDS CURRENT CHANCELLOR

    The University of Belgrade is undergoing the worst crisis in its
    history, according to a meeting of the University's Assembly on
    Sunday. The Assembly adopted a decision by the Council of Deans to
    replace Dragutin Velickovic as University Chancellor, and to
    appoint the oldest dean, Dragan Kuburovic, as acting Chancellor.
    The Assembly was attended by almost all deans of the University
    and more than 1,000 professors, lecturers and assistants. They
    said that the ex-chancellor was mainly responsible for the crisis
    the University was in. The Assembly also adopted the University
    Charter which seeks freedom from interference by any political
    party, and regulates funding. The Charter says that money from the
    state budget does not come from the ruling party, but from the tax
    payers, and that the University has the right to use all available
    private funds, Beta reports.


    STUDENTS PROTEST FOR HUNDREDTH TIME

    Students of the University of Belgrade on Saturday walked through
    the city centre for the hundredth time in a row. In order to mark
    their hundredth protest walk, they passed by all places which had
    been significant during their three-month protest. On Sunday,
    students were ``waiting for the future'' in one of the city's main
    squares, Slavija, Beta reports.


    DRASKOVIC: WE DO NOT WANT OUR OWN CHANNEL, BUT DE-BLOCKING OF ALL
    MEDIA

    Opposition leader Vuk Draskovic said that the Zajedno coalition
    did not want control over one of the state television channels,
    but freedom of all media, according to the principles of
    independent and responsible journalism. ``At our rally on March 9,
    we will tell people about our demands for the free media. The
    multi-party 15 minute programme on Channel 2 of the state
    television is really some freedom. They form a choir which
    unanimously sings against Zajedno. It is a shameful and
    unacceptable act. Slobodan Milosevic accepted the report of
    Gonzalez's commission, so he is obliged to establish a free and
    responsible press. However, freedom is not the opportunity to spit
    at things without consequences. That is the freedom of the jungle,
    not of the press. Such so-called freedom does not exist in
    democratic countries,'' stated Mr. Draskovic.


    ``NOVA DEMOKRATIJA'' GREETS AGREEMENT BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND
    REPUBLIKA SRPSKA

    ``Nova Demokratija'' (New Democracy), a member party of the
    Serbian governing coalition, on Sunday welcomed the signing of an
    agreement on special relations between Yugoslavia and 'Republika
    Srpska'. ``We are convinced that this agreement will contribute to
    further strengthening and development of the peace process in the
    region, '' stated Nova Demokratija, Beta reports.


    HUNGARIANS IN VOJVODINA DO NOT WANT TO SECEDE FROM SERBIA

    President of the Union of Hungarians of Vojvodina (SVM) and Mayor
    of the city of Subotica, Jozef Kasza, gave an interview to the
    Novi Sad daily 'Dnevnik' in which he said that Hungarians in
    Vojvodina had never wanted to secede from Serbia, but called for
    better relations within Serbia and its faster development. Mr.
    Kasza also stated that it was a pity that no Serb party of
    democratic orientation had got power in Subotica, because SVM
    would be its natural ally since it had the same aims: democracy in
    Serbia, open media and equality of peoples.


    ``LE MONDE:'' AGREEMENT OF YUGOSLAVIA AND REPUBLIKA SRPSKA BURIED
    SOVEREIGNTY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

    Parisian daily 'Le Monde', in its Sunday issue commented that the
    Agreement on special relations between Yugoslavia and Republika
    Srpska ``had buried the sovereignty of Bosnia.'' The paper also
    said that the Agreement came at the right time for President
    Milosevic, because ``he was dismembered by three-month civil
    protests, and now he showed he cared for brothers in Bosnia.''
    ``Functioning of the Bosnian institutions is stalled anyway, due
    to discontent in Republika Srpska, and now the sovereignty of
    Bosnia and Herzegovina as one country has been completely buried.
    The Agreement says that citizens of Yugoslavia and Republika
    Srpska can cross the border without visas or taxes, which means
    that the government in Sarajevo has no control over its
    international borders. Bosnian Croats have now gone even further.
    They are preparing to participate as voters in the forthcoming
    parliamentary elections in Croatia. All attempts at Bosnian
    reunion have failed. Dissolution of that country is happening
    before our eyes,'' concluded the paper.

    Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
    Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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