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From notes@igc.org Tue Oct 8 15:37:24 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:37:25 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA18608; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: 08 Oct 1996 11:43:07 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat"From: 0911943-0505@t-online.de Subject: Letter to Sarajevo To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <1367336612-51412@mediafilter.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 25 Hi, my name is Hubert and I live in Nuernberg/Germany. I look both for the possibilty to help people in Bosnia and I want to have e-mail contact to you. In case I can help in some ways e.g. to bring over messages to Bosnian refugees here in Nuernberg, I would do that. So be free to contact me also under my private address: Hubert Reiner Grolandstr. 60 90408 Nuernberg/Germany. my private e-mail address: na507@fim.uni-erlangen.de I really hope the silence of arms will keep for a long time always for Bosnia and the Bosnian people. In friendship Hubert From notes@igc.org Tue Oct 8 15:41:02 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:41:10 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA18485; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: 08 Oct 1996 12:10:05 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat" From: adnan.ramic@mailbox.swipnet.se Subject: Re: http://mediafilter.org/SJ/Pages/Student looking for conversation To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <1367334879-155918@mediafilter.org> In-Reply-To: <1401003283-2061149@mediafilter.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 21 To Studio 99! Best regards to the journalists of studio 99 that visited Stockholm in summer 1996. I hope your programmes came out OK. Johanna Ramic, Radio Stockholm From notes@igc.org Tue Oct 8 15:42:47 1996 Received: from igc7.igc.org (192.82.108.35) by MediaFilter.org with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:42:47 -0500 Received: from cdp.igc.apc.org (cdp.igc.apc.org [192.82.108.1]) by igc7.igc.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA18563; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 12:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: 08 Oct 1996 11:44:33 Reply-To: Conference "zamir.chat" From: Ivo Skoric Subject: Re: Zagreb's Radio 101 might move to Slovenia To: Recipients of zamir-chat-l Message-ID: <199610081714.KAA13699@igc3.igc.apc.org> In-Reply-To: <199610081716.KAA13882@igc3.igc.apc.org> X-Gateway: conf2mail@igc.apc.org Errors-To: owner-zamir-chat-l@igc.apc.org Precedence: bulk Lines: 96 From: "Ivo Skoric" Subject: Zagreb's Radio 101 might move to Slovenia Apn Voice of Zagreb Copyright 1996 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of the Associated Press. By JASMINA KUZMANOVIC Associated Press Writer ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Zagreb's Radio 101 is respected, loved, bullied, and above all listened to. Its critical news program, openness and biting humor have long made it the favorite of the capital's 1 million people. But Croatia's last radio station not controlled by allies of the government may be off the air once its broadcast license expires in November. In a tightly ruled country that has seen several crackdowns on news media, the idea of losing Radio 101 is troubling for many people. "It is the voice of Zagreb, its heart," said Marijan Rakusic, an engineer who tunes in early each day and switches off late. "I could not imagine being without it." With the state controlling nationwide television and radio and three of the four national newspapers, Radio 101 is the medium of choice for increasingly dissatisfied Zagreb residents, who voted heavily for the opposition in city elections last fall. Independent polls say about 34 percent of people surveyed cite Radio 101 as the station they listen to most. State-run radio, which is a mouthpiece for the government, is listed by 11 percent. On a recent morning, controlled confusion was the order of the day at the cramped downtown quarters of Radio 101, whose crew learned to brave threats when communism still dominated the old Yugoslavia. Reporters and soundmen jostled in the tiny, two-story office, technicians shouted cues. "We spent 12 years trying to create an independent, respected and popular radio," said Zrinka Vrabec-Mojzes, the chief editor. "Now the government is making us compete for our own frequency with two projects that exist only on paper." One of those is reportedly backed by the ruling party of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. His government controls all concessions for radio frequencies through a commission it appoints. Neither of the two new groups has registered as a radio station, and neither has acquired studio and sound equipment or found a location to broadcast from. Tellingly, the frequencies of Zagreb's three other private radio stations are renewed automatically and without competition. Unlike Radio 101, they broadcast only sports, music and bland news from the government news agency, HINA. The Ministry of Communications, whose board will decide the fate of Radio 101, declined to comment on the criteria for allocating the frequency. So did Tudjman's close advisers. "The irony is that this radio was the first to open its doors to dissidents in the late 1980s," said political analyst Slaven Letica, a former Tudjman aide and now a fierce critic. "Their attempt to shut down the medium that gave them a chance to speak out can be described as perverse." Tudjman himself, then a retired general who returned to school to earn a doctorate in history, used Radio 101 to speak out for Croat rights in Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. In power since Croatia broke away from the Yugoslav federation, Tudjman has come under intense international criticism for muzzling opposition politicians and independent news media. The chief editor of one weekly newspaper was drafted into the army and later charged with offending the president for a critical article. Another weekly's offices were closed, allegedly for reasons of hygiene, and a daily was charged with tax evasion. Reporters working for independent media are often depicted in government newspapers as traitors. Now Tudjman appears to be aiming at Radio 101, which reaches one-fourth of Croatia's 4.5 million people. Many of its biting jingles feature the president, often making fun of his unconscious use of Serb phrases, a vestige of his years in the Yugoslav army. A recording of his unmistakable chuckle is played between reports of unpopular government moves. Starting out during Yugoslavia's Communist regime, Radio 101 took to the airwaves as a youth radio walking a fine line between censors and truth. It proved largely able to resist official dogma, support itself from commercials and provide a forum for those who think, talk or sing differently. In the past year, the radio confirmed its independence by being highly critical of Tudjman's party and the opposition. When Tudjman repeatedly rejected an opposition mayor for Zagreb, Radio 101 aired critical editorials, broadcast the views of opposition leaders and became a vent for thousands of angry callers. But it was equally harsh when the chief opposition party recently announced it was negotiating power-sharing with Tudjman. "Trying to shut down Radio 101 means open season on young, educated, pro-Western voters," said Letica, the political analyst. He blamed the attempt on a small group of hard-liners in the ruling party. "I have to be an optimist," said Vrabec-Mojzes, while admitting to weighing alternatives. One includes broadcasting from neighboring Slovenia, another former Yugoslav republic whose border is just 25 miles from Zagreb. End Adv for Wed AMs, Oct. 2