The World - News from May 31, 1988
The Communist Party chief of Yugoslavia’s biggest republic told party leaders at a crisis conference in Belgrade to implement sweeping reforms by fall or face dismissal. “Either the leadership will fulfill the will of the people, or the people will replace it in a democratic and civilized way,” said Slobodan Milosevic, head of the ruling party in Serbia. Milosevic, 47, is one of the rising personalities in a younger generation of politicians impatient with the failure to resolve the country’s economic and political difficulties.
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