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about the future.
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litical leverage than they have had
during his nine years in power.
The Belgrade commission pre
viously had declared the opposi
tion victorious in Nov. 17 balloting,
only to be overturned by a court. It
seemed unlikely, however, that the
commission would have repeated
its declaration without backing
from a higher authority.
In Nis, Socialists on the electoral
commission gave in after days of
stalling and stopped opposing a
court order to reinstate the opposi
tion’s election triumph there.
The Socialists already had
withdrawn their claims to five
lesser towns; the opposition
claims wins in Belgrade and 13
other major Serbian cities.
“I believe nothing,” said oppo
sition leader Zoran Djindjic, who
would be mayor if the opposition
indeed wins Belgrade. “This is an
other attempt to buy time. We will
continue our protests.
“There is no reason for eupho
ria. Belgrade is only a part of the
whole package,” he said. “We don’t
trust this regime until our deputies
constitute the city council.”
Djindjic said the opposition
wanted to see its victories recog
nized in all the cities it won, and its
representatives actually take power.
The U.S. government was
waiting for the same thing. “We’re
just going to reserve any kind of
commendation for the Belgrade
government” until the opposition
victors take their seats, State De
partment spokesman Nicholas
Burns said in Washington.
Belgrade has been the scene of
large daily demonstrations, in
cluding 500,000 people Monday,
since the election wins by the op
position were annulled.
Opposition control of Belgrade
would break the near-monopoly
on electronic media now enjoyed
by the Socialists and their neo-
Communist coalition partners. By
law, the City Council has the right
to run radio and television sta
tions in the city.
Control over the stations could
be invaluable to the opposition
ahead of Serbian parliamentary
and presidential elections later
this year. One of the protesters’
main aims has been to offer alter
natives to the intensely pro-So-
cialist state media.
A Belgrade win by the opposi
tion also would hurt Milosevic in
other ways.
It is common for his Socialists
and the neo-Communists led by
his wife, Mirjana Markovic, to
award building and business per-
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say former associates.
“All want nice locations for
building big villas or establishing
good businesses,” said Mihajlo
Markovic, a former Milosevic lieu
tenant purged in 1995 because he
opposed the Socialists’ coalition
with the neo-Communists.
“It’s clear that you would want
to continue to have this possibili
ty of rewarding your supporters,”
said Markovic, no relation to
Milosevic’s wife.
Milosevic’s attempts to compro
mise have been opposed by his
wife, who reportedly counseled
harsh action against demonstra
tors at a weekend meeting of the
Serbian leadership.
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A midnight summit between the Israeli
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The deal under consideration would give
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the handover of land to the Palestinians.
Tension between the two sides rose
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“This agreement is going to tear the na
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