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Article: The looting of Yugoslavia: while Milosevic's cronies enrich themselves, the economy crumbles. (Pres Slobodan Milosevic; includes related article on arrests of war criminals from Bosnia)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 21, 1997
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The fast money of Belgrade prefers the sleek, postmodern lines of the Sava Center, a futuristic office complex just across the Sava River from the gritty old city. Having a lot of that money, Vladimir Kovacevic--Tref to his friends and the society-page writers--was especially fond of the place. He drove there to work almost every day in one of the two dozen cars he owned. Tref was doing just that on February 20, arriving in his Jeep, a favorite of his, just before 11 a.m. He parked in the garage and took his usual shortcut to service entrance A. It was there that the first two bullets pierced Tref's chest. A third, fired from the same 9-mm pistol, entered the small valley of ...