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Alo The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Sunday, May 28, 2000 Yugoslav Army on Heightened Alert Amid Tensions THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELGRADE,Yugoslavia — The Yugoslav army has reportedly been placed on higheralert against domestic and foreign enemies, re- flecting growing tensions gener- ated .by the confrontation - between A President Slobodan Milosevic and his opponents. Vijesti, a daily in Yugoslavia’s republic of Montenegro, on Saturday published what it said was a copyofa classified military documentthat called on troops to watch for “foreign enemies, together with certain opposition forces . . . conducting propaganda with the aim to topple the authorities.” legally elected Vijesti cited orders signed byLt. Gen. Milorad Obradovic, commander of Yugoslav Army's Second Corps, which covers Montenegro and most of the rest of southern Yugoslavia. The orders told troops to be “most decisive and use all measures in case of provocation.” The Yugoslav army did not respond Saturday to a request to confirm the Vijesti report. In Belgrade, meanwhile, about 15,000 people gathered in the Serbian capital to rally against the president, the latest of daily demonstrations demanding his resignation. No incidents were immediately reported. Muchof the most recent confrontation has played out in Serbia, the larger Yugoslav republic increase in tensions gripping all of Yugoslavia. Montenegro’:'s pro-Western leadership is supportive of the anti-Milosevic movement in Ser- including the Yugoslav army,frequently lumptogetherthe Serbian opposition, Montenegro’s leaders and Western powers, equating their efforts to weaken the Yugo- bia, seeing it as strengthening its slav president to treason: efforts for autonomy, if not out_rightindependence. Internal bickering among a dozen opposition leaders has en- E i Supporters of Milosevic, politically, despite his role in the disintegration of Yugoslavia and Serbia’s loss of its Kosovo province last year. abled Milosevic to “The battle against the rigid, arrogant and primitive authorities cannot be waged ... from offices, with press releases, without really knowing people in the streets,” said an editorial in the independent Danas daily Saturday, suggesting opposition leaders were survive outoftouch withordinary Serbs. autocrat. i UNDETECTABLE HEARING AID... SyareblRMN) Something soae but so Audible! lire (eRe ee ele Peas Sid aa Vijesti report reflected the general Russian politicians and analysts had been waiting to see if Putin would rehire Voloshin and othersenior figures from the previous administration as a test of whether he would act independently and tackle the corruption that blossomed underYeltsin. President Vladimir Putin quietly reappointed the controversial Kremlin chief of staff Saturday, the strongest sign yet that he won’t sever ties with the powerful circle of advisers of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin. But Putin has reappointed most of the ministers and senior officials from the old government. Since he was inaugurated on May 7, Putin has focused on consolidating the Kremlin’s power. Voloshin’s reappointment was likely to worry those Russians who had hoped that Putin’s election Alexander Voloshin, the presi- dential chiefof staff, was a central figure in the group of businessmen and politicians who made up the so-called “Family” of advisers who wielded enormous power under Yeltsin. Russian and Swiss investiga- would signal the end.of the power tors have probed allegations link- tint and influence of the tiny circle of ing members of Yeltsin’s family and top Kremlin aides to alleged kickbacks for lucrative government contracts and money laundering. rule, hoping that a well-organized Peaceful sistruggle might oust that is his power base. But the the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS = resistance within rie days “against criminals who wantto kill us all.” Serbia’s opposition leaders urged their followers Saturday td use civil disobedience against President Slobodan Milosevic’s : : REUPHOLSTER YOUR HIDDENTREASURES! Putin Reappoints ChiefofStaff, Raising Concerns of Cronyism MOSCOW ing to counter such fection, Zoran Djindjic, one off ee ee pledged a pro- politicians and tycoons who have 10 Year Written Guarantee Clee NEA Rags . MASTERCRAFT Upholstery and Repairs 2700 So. 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