Milosevic Foe Reportedly Abducted

The League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina said Jan Svetlik, a deputy in the local assembly of the northern Serbian town of Zrenjanin, was taken from his home by three men. The reported abduction occurred just hours before a session of Zrenjanin’s municipal assembly in which Svetlik had secured enough votes to oust a mayor loyal to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. In 1996, the league and other opposition parties won elections in Zrenjanin, 45 miles north of Belgrade, the Serbian and Yugoslav capital. But they lost control after the 1998 defection of four members to Milosevic’s Socialists.