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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 10 PM), February 22, 1997

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    NEWS BY 10 PM
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    RADIO TELEVISION SERBIA ATTACKS MONTENEGRIN PRIME MINISTER
    DJUKANOVIC

    On Saturday, state-controlled Radio Television Serbia (RTS)
    accused the Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic of
    destabilizing Serbia and ``collaborating with those who have tried
    to topple the government in Belgrade.'' During the main news
    bulletin in the evening Mr. Djukanovic was also labelled
    ``arrogant and aloof'' and accused of being an agent of Milan
    Panic (Serbian-born American, former Prime Minister of
    Yugoslavia).

    RTS, referring to an earlier interview Mr. Djukanovic gave Serbian
    independent weekly ``Vreme,'' RTS commented: ``In his interview
    with one Belgrade pro-oppositon weekly Mr. Djukanovic attacked the
    coalition partner of the very party that brought him to power.
    Even more important are his reasons for that attack. For months
    now he has been working hand in glove with those who tried,
    fortunately unsuccessfully, to topple the government in Belgrade
    and destabilize Serbia.''

    In the ``Vreme'' interview Mr. Djukanovic had said: ``Slobodan
    Milosevic is way behind his time as a politician, lacking any
    strategy to meet the challenges that face his country,'' and that
    ``it would be a political mistake if Mr. Milosevic were to retain
    any political position in Yugoslavia.''


    INITIATIVE TO BOYCOT TV SUBSCRIPTION

    On Saturday the Association of Free Cities and Constituencies of
    Serbia voted unanimously to accept the initiative of the city of
    Kragujevac to boycot the obligatory subscription to state TV (RTS)
    included in electricity bills, FoNet reported. The Association
    includes all those cities and constituencies where the opposition
    won at local elections last November.


    STUDENTS MARCH

    On Saturday about 15,000 Belgrade University students marched for
    the 93rd straight day to the heart of Novi Beograd -- a Belgrade
    suburb where Zajedno won the majority in local elections last
    November but which was omitted from the mission report of the
    Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), BETA
    reported. More than 1,000 citizens of Novi Beograd joined the
    students.


    SERBIAN RENEWAL MOVEMENT SUPPORT TEACHERS STRIKE

    On Saturday Zajedno coalition member -- The Serbian Renewal
    Movement -- gave official support to striking teachers in Serbia
    and demanded that the Serbian government meet teachers' demands
    ``immediately.''


    AGREEMENT OF TWO OPPOSITION COALITIONS

    Members of ``Narodna Sloga'' (People's Unity), Montenegro's
    strongest opposition coalition, attended the founding session of
    Belgrade City Assembly on Friday, Montena-fax reported.

    After the session Zajedno and Narodna Sloga signed an agreement on
    further cooperation. According to Narodna Sloga, the main aims of
    the alliance are to free the media and further democratic reform.


    GROWING VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO?

    The ``National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo,'' called all
    Albanians to join in ``an armed uprising to free Kosovo from
    Serbian occupiers,'' in a party newsletter delivered to several
    news organisations in Pristina, Kosovo's main city, BETA reported.
    The organization also critisized the policy of the leaders of
    Kosovian Albanians, especially Ibrahim Rugova, for their
    ``pacificism which was in the interest of Serbia.''


    NEW STUDIO B MANAGEMENT TO CONVENE MONDAY

    The new Managing Board of Belgrade Radio Television Studio B will
    convene for the first time on Monday at 2 p.m., Radio B92
    reported. The Board will examine current finances at the
    television. RT Studio B is owned by the opposition-controlled
    Belgrade City Council. The opposition has already signalled its
    intenetion to privatize the TV within the next two years and to
    leave the TV free of political intereference.

    Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
    Edited by: Julia Glyn-Pickett

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