The Montenegro police gave it armed protection. Now it trumpets its pro-independence line louder than ever. Pro-Milosevic voices are largely silent. The moves towards independence here are more practical than nationalistic. Just about the only goods that move on Montenegro's mountainous highways are smuggled.
Legitimate commerce is just about dead, killed by the Yugoslav embrace.
In the center of the capital, an army of black market traders hawk the increasingly worthless Yugoslav dinar. We want to be open colony and open society. We want frontier, we want to limit barrier to Montenegro and laborers and tourists and investors and capitalists. We want to be part of Europe. The government thinks it's correctly reading the mood of the people, particularly the young.