Foreign Agencies on November 27th, 1996

NIS, Yugoslavia
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Students and professors have occupied all of the city's university buildings and the local ruling Socialist Party leader, whose huge frame used to dominate the evening news, has disappeared from public view and ordered the party headquarters closed.

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- For the third time this month, Belgrade residents went to the polls. But a boycott by the opposition meant few voters were bothering to show up Wednesday.

Instead, some 50,000 people, most of them students, took to the streets for the third straight day to protest the decision by President Slobodan Milosevic to annul an opposition election victory.

A huge cordon of policemen stood in the way of the column of demonstrators, who started chanting "Let's Go to Dedinje," the upscale district where Milosevic lives and voted.

No injuries or arrests were reported but the protesters burned an American flag and chanted anti-American slogans when they passed the U.S. Embassy. They were apparently unhappy with what they claim is U.S. support of Milosevic as a Balkan peacemaker.

It may be understandable, but it is nonetheless unfortunate, that Washington finds itself entwined with Milosevic because his presumed readiness to compel the Serbs of Bosnia to observe the Dayton peace agreement.
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