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Article: Milosevic's crackdown on opponents may do more damage than NATO bombs,missiles.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- March 25, 1999
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia _ Before NATO warplanes had even left their bases Wednesday, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic shut down this city's only independent radio station, stoking fears among intellectuals and opposition politicians that they would be imprisoned or targeted by nationalist thugs.
In a swift but predictable response from a regime that has silenced its critics for more than a decade, Serbian police jailed the editor of B-92 Radio and threatened to crush other independent news outlets as ``traitors'' to the state.
``Any military confrontation with NATO will give the Yugoslav military a free hand to purge the independent media and ...