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Date: 22 December 2000 18:06

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FEATURE: Sealing Victory
by Tihomir Loza

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The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), the coalition of political
parties that removed Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic from power
in October, is set to triumph in this weekend's early parliamentary
elections in Serbia. That's a positive sign for Serbia, but a new
government will have to address two niggling questions: the country's
beleaguered economy and what to do about Milosevic.

FEATURE: Love-Hate Relationship
by Zeljko Ivanovic

http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=6&NrSection=2&NrArticle=483

In today's Montenegro, the main political battle is not being fought
between the government and the opposition but within the governing
coalition itself. After the democratic changes in Belgrade in
October, the ruling parties are split over what the end of former
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's regime means for Montenegro.

BOOKS: The Roots of Hubris, a review of "Tournament of Shadows:
The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia"

by Amyn B. Sajoo
http://www.tol.cz/look/TOLnew/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=6&NrSection=5&NrArticle=485

A "Victorian prologue to the Cold War" is how Karl Meyer and Shareen
Blair Brysac cast their intriguing account of the "Great Game," the
world's oldest contest for imperial mastery of the vast expanse
between British India and the fast-growing Russian empire in Central
Asia. A "tournament of shadows" was how Count Nesselrode, a Tsarist
foreign minister in St. Petersburg, saw the rivalry with London at
the beginning of it all. And a "tournament of pipelines" is how we
might see its unfolding legacy, amid fresh games in Central Asia
where the actors and prizes may look different but the methods seem
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