From: amils@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex MILS)
Subject: M.I.L.S. - NEWS 17/11/92
Followup-To: soc.culture.yugoslavia
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:27:28 GMT


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MILS - NEWS                             November 17, 1992

CATASTROPHE LOOMS IN MACEDONIA 
Skopje. The United Nations' Security Council has imposed even
stronger sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro--the rump
Yugoslavia--and it looks like Macedonia will become an unintended
victim.
The Undersecretary of the Macedonian Foreign Ministry, Risto
Nikovski, has appealed to the European Community to unblock the
Greek port of Salonika, from where land-locked Macedonia gets its
imports from.
The UN's tough resolution against Serbo-Yugoslavia means that all
rail links to Macedonia have been cut off.
Badly needed oil supplies from the Bulgarian town of Dimitrovgrad
cannot get through to Macedonia, because the railway line between
Macedonia and Bulgaria runs through the Serbian town of Nis.
Transportation of oil by truck could be unaffordable for the
poverty-stricken republic.

MACEDONIA WILL FACE A SEVERE WINTER
Skopje. The oil shortage means that the republic will have to
close down electricity generating plants. But in the meantime,
levels of electricity use have gone up--2 million kilowatts above
the average--because people have been forced to use electric
heaters rather than oil heaters.
There will be enormous problems for the population when the
weather get colder. One solution is to link up the thermo-
electric plant "Negotino" to the existing power grid, but 50,000
tonnes of oil are needed--and that is unlikely to reach Macedonia
because of the trade embargo.
The thermo-electric and hydro-electric plants in Bitola,
Macedonia's second largest city, are hardly working because of
the oil shortage and because of a low supply of water caused by
last summer's drought. Authorities have seriously considered
restricting the use of electricity by 40%.

PROPOSED MILITARY ACADEMY FOR MACEDONIA
Paris. A military academy could be set up in Macedonia by next
October, according to the Parisian-Macedonian newspaper
"Makedonski Vesnik."
One of the prime movers of the project is Vice Admiral Dragoljub
Bocinov, formerly of the Yugoslav Navy, and now deputy head of
the Chiefs of Staff of the Macedonian army for officer
recruitment and training.
Bocinov has become a well known figure to the Macedonian public
after he was arrested and tried in a Belgrade military court for
allegedly refusing to fire upon the Croatian port of Split last 
year. He was found to be innocent of the charges and allowed to
return to his native Macedonia.
The Vice Admiral is the author of a proposal paper which outlines
the establishment of a military academy. The proposal paper needs
only to be approved by the Chiefs of Staff, the Macedonian
President, Kiro Gligorov, and the Ministers for Education and
Defence for the academy to be established.
Macedonian officer cadets who had their final year of study
interrupted by Macedonia's withdrawal from the Serbian dominated
People's Army of Yugoslavia (JNA) will be allowed to finish their
course by 1992-93. But from October 1993, the new four year
course at the new Macedonian military academy will commence.
Cadets will only be accepted if they meet the tough selection
criteria. The course's curriculum will emphasise the following
subjects: philosophy, sociology, a foreign language, mathematics,
information, and theoretical and practical military sciences etc.
Vice Admiral Bocinov said that it was of major importance that
this elite school produce top quality officers who were highly
motivated, confident, and who were willing to defend the
fatherland--Macedonia.

DE STANDAARD: EC AND GREECE CAUSES MACEDONIA TO SUFFER
Brussels. An article on 17-11-92 in the well respected Belgian
broadsheet in the Flemish language, De Standaard, has strongly
criticised the EC and Greece for its behaviour towards Macedonia.
De Standaard correspondent, Axel Buyse, who sent a few days in
Macedonia, wrote that "Athens has been thick-headed in blocking
EC recognition of Macedonia. On the other hand, Buyse contends,
the EC has done nothing to break Greece's economic blockade of
the land-locked republic; in Belgrade there is plenty of oil but
Macedonia has none, despite not having UN trade sanctions placed
against it."
The article also mentioned the enormous difficulties caused by
the economic blockade on Macedonia, and the recent riot in
Skopje. Buyse pointed out that the Macedonian people live with
fear in their hearts, waiting to see whether or not their country
will be invaded.

BOZINOVSKI JOINS IPSWICH
London. Australian-Macedonian soccer player, Vlado Bozinovski,
and Bulgarian international Benco Geuncev, have joined English
club Ipswich Town for 200,000, according to reports in the BBC.
Bozinovski and Geuncev both played for Portuguese team, Sporting
Lisbon.

APPEAL:

THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA FINDS ITSELF IN A
DIFFICULT PERIOD. THE UN AND EC ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST SERBIA
AND MONTENEGRO HAVE ALSO ISOLATED MACEDONIA. THE UN'S LATEST
RESOLUTION AGAINST SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO HAVE LEFT MACEDONIA, ON
THE THRESHOLD OF WINTER, WITHOUT OIL AND ENERGY, WHICH WILL HAVE
CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES FOR THE MACEDONIAN POPULATION.
WE MUST ALL SUPPORT MACEDONIA. WE MUST OPPOSE THIS
INJUSTICE. WE MUST RAISE OUR VOICE IN PROTEST AGAINST THE
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WHO IN THE NAME OF "PRINCIPLES" ARE
PLAYING AROUND WITH MACEDONIA'S FATE. 

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