Looking for Democracy in Slovenia and Croatia From: The Washington Post | Date: December 14, 1990 | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Blaine Harden's Dec. 4 article "Yugoslav Aide Threatens Separatist Republics" raises these unsettling questions: Amid the tidal wave of democracy now sweeping Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, can Yugoslavia be regressing to Stalinism and communism? Is it possible that the defense minister, Gen. Velkjo Kadijevic, a Serbian, along with his other generals, can be allowed to form his own political party and then threaten to crush the democratic independence movements in Slovenia and Croatia...

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