The World - News from July 31, 1989
A senior Yugoslav official said nationalist disputes have affected the ruling Communist Party from its leadership to the grass roots. “Inter-ethnic divisions and quarrels are permeating the . . . party,” Politburo member Ivica Racan told a Central Committee meeting in Belgrade. “First they grip (the party’s) leadership, then its organizations and members.” Yugoslav state and party leaders have been calling for an end to nationalist conflicts that have seriously upset relations in the multi-ethnic federation of 23 million people.
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