WORLD IN BRIEF : YUGOSLAVIA : Serbian Populist Heads New Party
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Serbia’s populist leader, Slobodan Milosevic, was overwhelmingly elected president of the new Socialist Party in Yugoslavia’s biggest republic. Milosevic, president of the Serbian republic, pledged to make the new party--described by opposition parties as a ploy to keep the Communists in power--different from Serbia’s Communist Party. The Socialists advocate free elections and freedom of the press, speech and public assembly. The party favors a market economy and privatization of state property.
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