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Article: Opposites Are Odd Pair In Serb Fight; Party Leaders Combine Forces for Common Dream
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- The Washington Post
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- December 8, 1996
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Vuk Draskovic and Zoran Djindjic are an unlikely pair to
share the dream of a democratic Serbia.
Draskovic's office is festooned with icons of Orthodox
saints, littered with sculptures of dead Serb generals, kings and
queens. Djindjic's is barely functional, just a way station to the
windowsill where he and Draskovic have addressed boisterous crowds
for the past 20 days in the biggest protests in Belgrade since the
Communist takeover in 1945.
Draskovic preaches to the demonstrators, plucking phrases
from the epic poems of medieval Serbia. He speaks of honor,
tradition, morals. Djindjic packages thoughts in pragmatic,
postmodern sound bites. Draskovic, 50, actually seems to ...