WORLD IN BRIEF : YUGOSLAVIA : Serbian Populist Heads New Party
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Serbia’s populist leader, Slobodan Milosevic, was overwhelmingly elected president of the new Socialist Party in Yugoslavia’s biggest republic. Milosevic, president of the Serbian republic, pledged to make the new party--described by opposition parties as a ploy to keep the Communists in power--different from Serbia’s Communist Party. The Socialists advocate free elections and freedom of the press, speech and public assembly. The party favors a market economy and privatization of state property.
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