L-I: NY TIMES SAYS KOSOOV GOT 70% OF BUDGET FROM REST OF YUGO

[Borba100@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear friends,

Along the lines of reading widely and not necessarily dismissing sources that
are impure, I thought you all might find the following of interest.

One of the key points made in the interview I did this weekend, KOSOVO BEFORE
1989, was that in fact Kosovo was sustained economically by the rest of
Serbia and by other Yugo repuiblics; this as opposed to being a "colony."
(My understanding is that colonies are so named cause they give but do not
receive, right?)

The figure used Iin the interview was that 70% of the Kosovo budget came from
outside and that this was especially significant in a socialist economy which
was state-centered.  Here is a bit of independent confirmation.  Here is an
excerpt from the Times article.

EXCERPTS FOLLOW

The New York Times
Friday, October 5, 1984,

Yugoslavia's Albanians: Poor, Proud and Prolific

By Michael T. Kaufman

...The thrust toward republic status, for example,
is in large measure motivated by the clause in the
Yugoslav Constitution that technically permits any
republic to secede.

As explained by a knot of [Albanian] students in
Pristina, this right to withdraw could pave way for
creating a greater Albania, linking Kosovo with the
present Albania... with the capital shifting from
Tirana to Pristina...

The students had no answers as to how such a nation
could support itself [!!!!]...

[U]nder the complicated transfer arrangement, Kosovo receives
70 percent of its budget from the richer components of the
Yugoslav union....[END OF EXCERPT]

MY COMMENT: Keep in mind that at the time that article was written 91984)the
US did not yet have an active strategy for the destruction of Yugoslavia,
though I believe it was already in the works.  There was not yet a concerted
effort to control information flow, and in any case.

Even when there is a concerted effort to control news, the NY Times has more
information than other US papers, though you have to read carefully.  An
effort to analyze methods of distortion in the NY Times coverage of the Sudan
bombing can be found in CREDIBLE DECEPTION at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/sudan.htm






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