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NOAH ADAMS, host:
In Yugoslavia, there is renewed fear of a civil war, or at least the breakup of the country, because in Serbia, the republic, Slobodan Milosevic has been re-elected as president. Milosevic has, for three years now, carried the banner of pride and nationalism, setting Serbia apart from the other Yugoslav republics and leading a crackdown in Serbia's Kosovo region. Kosovo is supposed to be an autonomous province. Most of the people there are ethnic Albanians and would like to be independent or to join with neighboring Albania. Serbia's President Milosevic won a big victory in voting yesterday, running as the leader of the Communist Party, which is now the Socialist Party. Blaine Harden is covering the elections for the Washington Post.
BLAINE HARDEN: There have been four other republics that have voted before Serbia, and in each one of those republics, the Communists or the Socialists, whatever you want to call them--they did badly, they lost. But nationalism was--was such a big deal here that the Serbian voters were willing to swallow really a Communist government, and it--it's more than just a former Communist government. It is...