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To: Richard Miller who wrote (33465)	4/28/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: steviee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

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To: Richard Miller who wrote (33465)	4/29/1999 3:03:00 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

As Jack Nicholson would say, "You want the truth! You can't HANDLE the truth!" April 28, 1999 Outspoken Yugoslav Premier Fired -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.P. INDEXES: TOP STORIES \| NEWS \| SPORTS \| BUSINESS \| TECHNOLOGY \| ENTERTAINMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filed at 11:27 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- With NATO perceiving signs of growing dissent in Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic's regime fired a deputy premier Wednesday who suggested Belgrade was ready to accept key NATO demands for ending the crippling air campaign. Vuk Draskovic, a former Yugoslav opposition leader who in recent days had called for a compromise with NATO, was dismissed because of ''public statements which were contrary to the government stands,'' the state-run Tanjug news agency said. NATO unleashed strong attacks early Thursday against Belgrade. Tanjug also said Podgorica, capital of the smaller Yugoslav republic Montenegro, came under the ''strongest attack'' since NATO began its airstrikes March 24. In neighboring Bulgaria, a missile slammed into a suburb of the capital, Sofia, damaging a house but causing no injuries. Bulgarian state radio said a NATO plane violated the country's air space shortly before the blast. NATO officials had no comment. Draskovic's ouster came the same day NATO said it was seeing signs of serious discontent inside Yugoslavia. Draskovic had said the Yugoslav leadership should stop lying to its people about the situation in the country after weeks of bombings and recognize ''we cannot defeat NATO.'' However, Draskovic (pronounced DRASH'-koh-vitch) is the only official who has spoken out against the regime during the airstrikes, and his firing cast doubts about any significant weakening in the government. A NATO official speaking on condition of anonymity called the move ''the first visible fracture'' in the Yugoslav leadership. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said people such as Draskovic are starting to speak out against Milosevic's policies, publicly blaming Belgrade for the NATO attacks and calling for political change. The 52-year-old Draskovic said he didn't know what caused his removal and, striking a nationalistic tone, denied any rift. ''Maybe some people in the West believed that I could be the man of tomorrow with whom NATO could cooperate,'' he said. ''No! NATO is the aggressor. ... We are victims of this blind revenge against a whole nation.'' A Serb opposition leader, Zoran Djindjic, told Austrian television that Draskovic had no real clout in the government and his dismissal is ''no way a sign of a rift in the Yugoslav government.'' However, Montenegro's president, a strong Milosevic critic, said the dismissal ''is a confirmation ... that there are people who cannot support, nor accept, whatever'' Milosevic says. Milo Djukanovic refused to speculate about a rift in Yugoslavia's government, but told The Associated Press that ''it lends hope that war will end much sooner.'' In Washington, President Clinton was noncommittal over the level of discontent in Belgrade. ''We have some indications that there are differences of opinion, obviously, developing in Belgrade,'' he said. ''There are some things we know I should not comment on.''