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Yugoseparatism

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\[ nLLYugoslavia

be the nexr counrryro

V V

ovenhrow

communisml Wrong

ques.

tion.

Bcmer

to

ask

whaher

Yugoslavia

will

become

the first European counrry

since

19'15 to

fall to

pieces:

the race with

the Sa

viet

Union

is on"

Secesion from Yugoslavia,

.

not

communism's

furure, was

the main issue

in last

Sunday's

election of a new

parliament

and

president

in Slovcnia, thc federarion's

most

liberal

republic

More than 8096 of the

cligible

voters

turned out

for

Slovenia's

first

multi-party

elecion

since

1938.

For

some

time

now most

people

in

Slo-

rrcnia

have

assumed that communism there

was

moribund"

The republic's ovm C-ommw

nists,

under ltlr Milan Kucan, their imprcs.

rive

presidential

candidate, harre hcn

pcr.

forming

the last ritei

and are

now socid

democrats

in

all

but name. Thelive

issuelast

Sunday was whether

Slovenia should in

some way

stay

part

of l'ugosiavia

or

pacl

is

bags

and leave. Demos-an

opposirion alli-

ance of Liberal Democrao, Ctuistian &nv

ocrats, Social Democratr,

the Peasant

party

and others

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thc Montencgrins

and

comrades

from

the

provinces

of Korcvo

and

Vojvodina,

which

Serbia

now connols.

His

protestations

that

lhg

pary

will

continue rcgardless

ring

fairly

hollow.

Th.

p".ry

men

from

the Yugoslav

army,

however, were

at thc

Cenmal

Comminee

meeting

in force.

They supponed

lvtr

Milosevic's

suggesrion

that a disciplined

all.

Yugoslav

party

should

bc created,

which

er"

erysingte memhr

of

the old

parry

should

be

invited

to

join.

The

army

has made clear

ia

preferencc

for

a centralised,

party