Airline Chief Allied With Milosevic Slain
Assailants shot and killed an ally of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as he walked his dog near his home here Tuesday night.
Police showed the body of state airline director Zika Petrovic, who lay in a pool of blood and appeared to have been shot in the head.
Witnesses and Belgrade’s independent Studio B television reported that he was shot by unknown attackers.
Petrovic, 62, the director of Yugoslav Airlines, belonged to a neo-Communist party allied with Milosevic’s ruling Socialists. He was known as a friend of Milosevic and his wife.
His death is the latest in a series of attacks in Belgrade. Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic was slain in February, and Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic was killed Jan. 15.
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