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Show Pots and Pans Caseoi Serbian sabots BY JOSEPH STIPANOVICH Early in February 1965 in a room aboveasauerkraut-and-bean processing plant in the lower East Side of Chicago, a momentous meeting occurred. At this meeting leaders of the Serbian Students for the Balkanization of America (SSBA) met to decide the. future course of their activities. One faction, fac-tion, les by that indomitable Slav, Basil Chetovich , wished to further Serbian ethnic demands by an immediate offensive against the state police, corrupt archdukes and the racist policies of the Jewish Jew-ish aristocracy of Nebraska. The other faction, led by Melchoir Peptich, wished to move more subtlely-they wanted to blow up the National Archives and sabotage sabo-tage the sewer system in Cicero, Illinois. This second faction, Mel-chior's, Mel-chior's, won out for the owner of the sauerkraut-and-bean plant was with him. The SSBA, under the joint leadership of Melchior and Basil, immediately put their program into operation. An elite crew of mad bombers, agitators and propagandists, pro-pagandists, known affectionately within the movement as the 'Sarajevo 'Sara-jevo Seven,' was dispatched to San Francisco to subvert the Western citadel of . imperialism. A Serbian boycott of banks was organized in the Midwest and was made more effective when the newly established establi-shed Serbian People's Army rob bed several of them under the direction di-rection of the newly appointed Minister of Defense, Eldrij Clefto-vich. Clefto-vich. Basil and Melchior, meanwhile, mean-while, took the remnants of SSBA to Washington, D.C., to pressure the national government. The SSBA immediately scored many successes. A separate but equal cemetery was provided in San Francisco after constant agitation agita-tion and pressure by the now infamous in-famous 'Sarajevo Seven.' The bank boycott and robberies led by Minister of Defense Cleftovich was such a smash that several poor Anglo-Saxons and a few wealthy Sicilians joined in the frenzy. In Washington, Basil and Melchior had been unbelievably effective. They had infested two 'Yoshino' cherry trees with mites, they had dropped tacks on Senator Gold-water's Gold-water's Senate chair from the gallery; gal-lery; they stole Ralph Nader's hotplate; hot-plate; and Basil got Dean Rusk's autograph. It soon became apparent to the Johnson Administration, through Walter Cronkite, that the Serbs were a serious threat. Finding a list of Serbian demands enclosed in his morning paper (the paperboy paper-boy was sympathetic to the Serbs) Lyndon called an immediate meeting of the National Security Council. This prestigious group decided that they could meet all demands except the one which demanded de-manded declaring Gavrilo Princip, the Serbian , fnent wift d.ate balkanization ' Knowing that th:Se dema 4 t and se'ves on the hors L; t sit Planer noted f0I ? take bull byhorns ; a Pd'ce action' tofo? attention awayfrwj menace. Dean Rusl.; lately blindfolded r! let loose onaMercai,: 'th a Pin-and-dorfe hand. He stuck the, perfectly, on a dot,, and as Vice-President fi-' began looking f0lfc: wheels were set invert in-vert the national eonsj. Basil and Melchior sadness that night asthe.-the asthe.-the Marines in Asia. , Students for the Bait' America disintegrated r steady tramp of the i Division's boots. Noll; however, for the was leased to the DC: difficult to sell a care; week of a war, Bate, clambered into their t Chevrolet and hat. through the American h both of them wistfully-.: of things that might h;- |