I don't think there were any really blatant interferences with the elections. The oppositions strength lay in the urban centres, particularly among the middle and 'academic' classes but, as I posted previously, the political opposition to Milosevic was divided and badly organized and without any coherent program. Milosevic's political strength lay in the country, among the peasantry (if I can use that word to refer to the rural, small-holders) who have always respected a strong leader -- a successor to Tito. When I was last in Beograd (in the early 1990s) most of the small businesses had a picture of Milosevic in their windows, just as they had of Tito in earlier periods. So, I would think it is highly misleading to suggest that Milosevic doesn't have a strong 'democratic' core of support, particularly since he has since picked up the support of his nationalist rivals (Seslje, Draskovic) since then on the basis of NATO bombing. We may not like it but he has probably as much, or more, democratic support than a minority despot such as Clinton (;-)). Paul Phillips, Economics, Unviersity of Manitoba From: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PEN-L:5350] Re: Re: Re: RE: NYC antiwar rally set for Friday Date sent: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:37:24 -0400 Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jim, > I don't know the details. Anybody else know? > I know that he was the President of the Republic of > Serbia before becoming the President of the Federal > Republic of Yugoslavia. The shift from being the former > to the latter was partly why the Montenegrins became > more restive as they came more directly under His Exc's > control. I think that what happened was that he switched > positions with the guy who had previously been the President > of the FRY. But I don't remember that guy's name or if he > is still the leader of the Serbian Republic. > Barkley Rosser > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 4:28 PM > Subject: [PEN-L:5342] Re: Re: RE: NYC antiwar rally set for Friday > > > >At 03:54 PM 4/15/99 -0400, Barkley wrote: > >>Max, > >> There is democracy, if > >>somewhat limited, in Serbia. There is none whatsoever in Iraq. > > > >I believe it was Tariq Ali, in message forwarded to pen-l, who referred to > >Milosevic as being elected. I assume that, like most elections around the > >world, the election was tainted in some way. But what are the details, > >Barkley? > > > >Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & > >http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html > > > > >
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