From: curcija@medr0.ecs.umass.edu (Dragan Curcija)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Subject: Re: Slovenia Purchases Supercomputers
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:31:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: risky.1992Sep4.163154.25999
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

In article <1992Sep3.135226.19673@unixland.natick.ma.us> sharon@unixland.natick.ma.us (Sharon Machlis Gartenberg) writes:
>The following is a statement released by CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson,
>TX:
>
>The Republic of Slovenia has awarded a three-year, multi-system contract
>to Convex Computer Corp. This contract provides for a Convex C3860 super-
>computer, purchased by the Ministry of Science and Technology, to be
>installed at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. Convex will also
>...
>
>"Slovenia is the most politically stable and economically prosperous of all
>the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe," said Dr. Peter Tancig,
>Slovenia's minister of science and technology. "Our goal is to continue to
>strengthen our economy by developing more knowledge-intensive industries
>aimed at technologically demanding market niches."
>

	I was amased to see who still heads  the Slovenian Ministry of Science
and decided to remind all of us what that person actually wrote!  and sent
to the whole world!  I will post only excerpt with "most interesting" part.

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From miso@ijs.ac.mail.yu Sat Jun 29 09:37:56 1991
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From: "V.Alkalaj,IJS-Comp.Centre,(+38)(61)214399 ext.666" <miso@ijs.ac.mail.yu>
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Subject: An appeal by the Minister of Science an Technology of Slovenia
Status: RO

Dear Friend,

The following is a letter that our Minister of Science and Technology
has been sending to his collegues all over the world - it contains
...

...The fact is that the basic reason for all the past/present "mess" is 
the incompatibility of two main frames of reference/civilizations, 
unnaturally and forcibly joined in Yugoslavia. On one side you have 
a typical violent and crooked oriental-bizantine heritage, best 
exemplified by Serbia and Montenegro - to cite just a few examples of 
their recent acts: robbery of more than USD 1 billion from the YU 
monetary system, blocking the normal succession in the federal 
Presidency, cruel repression of Albanians in Kosovo, voting back of 
fierce nationalists-communists at free elections, abolishing the two
autonomous provinces in Serbia while keeping their votes at the 
federal level, formanting nationalistic unrest in Croatia, etc. etc.
On the other side (Slovenia, Croatia) there is a more humble and 
dilligent western-catholic tradition, shown in, e.g., true 
parlamentary democracy, open market, overwhelming 
plebiscite/referendum support for independence and sovereignty, 
openess to the world at large, genuine willingness to negotiate new 
terms of joint future with the rest of the former Yugoslavia, etc. 
etc.
...

   Sincerely yours

   Prof. Peter Tancig, Ph.D., Minister of Science and Technology
                              of Republic of Slovenia

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Pozdrav,
Dragan

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P.S.  Also the article mentions the head of the computer center, and who else
than our famous "Dear Friend" person.

>...the development of our local high-performance computing capabilities," said
>Vladimir Alkalaj, the head of the Computer Centre at the Jozef Stefan
>Institute. "With the acquisition of the first Convex system, our scientists
...
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