Montenegrin Official Is Elected President
From Times Wire Reports
The parliament of Serbia and Montenegro elected a senior official of a ruling, independence-minded Montenegrin party as the new union’s first president. Sixty-five deputies in the 126-seat assembly backed Svetozar Marovic, 47, as president of the loose union formed last month from the ashes of Yugoslavia.
The deputy head of Montenegro’s Democratic Party of Socialists was the only candidate under an agreement with much larger Serbia, which is expected to have three ministers in the five-member government.
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