On the Web United Nations U.S. State Dept. NATO World Health Org. Sasa Mirkovic of independent B2-92 Radio in Belgrade discussed the power struggle in Yugoslavia. Gen. Wesley Clark discussed the international reaction to Milosevic's apparent defeat. Roughly half the work force in Yugoslavia is unemployed and high inflation is eating away at citizens' already barren lifestyle.
Economic sanctions continue to pinch recovery from war.
Hundreds of political activists are in jail, sometimes enduring beatings, and assassinations are common. Yet the man who presides over all of this, President Slobodan Milosevic, regarded by the United States and its allies as the greatest single threat to peace in Eastern Europe, is almost certain to secure another four-year term in elections he has called for Sept. 24, senior U.S. and European officials predict. Through intimidation, political manipulation and lofty nationalist rhetoric, he is settling in as the Saddam Hussein of Europe, a man who lost a war but holds onto power indefinitely. Milosevic has effectively run Yugoslavia since 1989. No opposition figure with the moral stature and political skill of Lech Walesa of Poland has surfaced.