Nachricht Nummer : 552 Übertragungszeit : 4 min 0 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : wam@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 24 November 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR Erstellungsdatum : 24.11.1994 22:24:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary, 24 November, 1994 Dobar Dan, So a lot of people came by yesterday evening. Even when the clock had already for hours decided that also this day was part of the history some people dropped in from the Ice T and Public Enemy concert and the party afterwards. To years ago the literally would have killed for it to be there at the concert in Ljubljana, which was cancelled at the last moment, a big number of ghetto blaster on the front-line didn't produced anything else than "fight the power". Now they came back and it was clear that they were in a bigger mood to sing Croatian or rather Dalmatian football songs of Hajduk, who lost as birthday present from Benfica also yesterday. So the concert and the short meeting with was use to be their idols after the concert didn't really had made deep influences on them. Shit, those peace freaks, said one after a while, "Give it up, Give it up, Give it up now", you know what they shouted in between "Croatian, give it up, give it up, Croatia, give it up now" and every 5 minutes, peace brother, peace in this country. No camouflage uniform on the stage but a bunch of Americans who told us to be friends with our enemies. Nothing, man, I tell you, nothing of the good old Enemy was there to night. Yes man, give it up, give it up, give it up now. I have seen workshop in non-violence conflict resolution enough I am not paying to get another lesson. Every ones and a while we remembered that the fights in Bihac are going on, also that moment that we are laughing and talking about so many different things. The situation is Bihac as we heard it here all the time looks like if the city can be changing sides soon. A little bit of a light today that there is maybe a hope that the situation will stabilise, there are rumours that a kind of peace agreement is coming up. Nevertheless the airraid from yesterday have totally made work of UNPROFOR in BiH impossible, check points were mined and soldiers were ordered to stay in their compounds. One of the things to remember it all the times is the amount of people in Zagreb who are mobilised suddenly during the last days and among them friends of us, who we missed last evening. Vesna also got a nice present. Tisak, the state printer where ARKzin is printed, went over their books and somebody found out that they lost money when they were printing ARKzin. At least that was the reason why the printing bill suddenly went up with 80%, from 4.000 Dem to 7.000 Dem. Feral Tribune had in the summer a similar thing when the ministry of Culture suddenly decided that Feral was a porno magazine and had to be in another much higher tax system. On the printer they told that also other newspapers would get a similar surprise or just had them. So a big part of the afternoon we spend discussion what we should do now. Paying the new high prices and go on or finding another printer who is cheaper. There are not so much other possibilities in Croatia though. The printer in Osijek from Glas Slavonija has a lot of contacts with Glavas and he wouldn't be very happy if ARKzin would be printed in his town. Slobodan Dalmacija in Split is not so free anymore and nearly the same as Tisak here in Zagreb and there is possibly a reason why Feral prints their magazine here in Zagreb and not in Split. Nova List in Rijeka, the only independent printer which could do it is completely overworked and their machines are much older than at Tisak. Printing abroad could be a solution, but what for new import taxes can be coming. And it takes a hell of an operation to get it all organised to transport here to Zagreb for the distribution department of Tisak. Who told Vesna a year ago already that when she would print here magazine somewhere they probebly still would distribute it, but that it would take a few days more before they lay in the kiosk. Of course if you want you can see behind this sudden price raise a try of the government to more or less put ARKzin out of work. Just by making the prices so high that it is simply not possible anymore. But maybe it is just true and they found out when they went over the books that they made a miss calculation in former months. You actual never know. On television they introduced today the newest agents, after the reserve and normal police and the traffic control police, introduce this summer (who looks like EC monitors who sell ice cream or so) now we also have the financial police. A nice more administrative looking uniform. Already for months stickers on the cash registers in shops warn you that you have to ask for a receipt. But it actual possible they showed today that you are asked at leaving the shop to show your bill and open your bag to show that you also really bought it. I wonder what happens if you've something in your bag which you bought some days before and from which the bill is missing. The whole meaning of that police is to fight the black economy, that people don't sell things for which they don't pay taxes. And it seems also that as buyer you must be able to proof that you didn't steal anything. I can see and understand the idea, but suddenly even the guy who is selling small breads on Ban Jelecic is also giving you a bill to proof that he sold and you bought it, I think the whole system is getting a little out of hand. On such a moment I remembered that 14 years ago my bags who were send by diplomatic mail cost me three days and 17 forms and over 100 stamps to get it through the customers in Beograd. Or how some banks write down the numbers of bank notes I am getting and giving at least 5 times and 6 persons are needed to exchange 100 Dem in Kuna's. All by hand ofcourse in big books. And that in the age of computers and still people are unemployed around here. So maybe I should by a small termo printer and start to produce bags full of bills so that I always have a good one read if somebody asks for it. The type of economy which is slowly been constructed here is surprising me every time, some moment you think it goes straight in the direction of a copy of the total free market of the US and than suddenly this type of old-fashion state control rules are popping up. It is still a jungle of rules and regulations, which nobody really knows. Mir za somewhere in or around Hrvatska, Wam Ps. by the way there are only 1200 Bangladeshi soldiers in that area and from them only 250 in Velika Kladusa, the fights are still continue. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zagreb Diary can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it is copyright free and can be ported to any network or other means of communication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach by sending a message to WAM@ZAMIR- ZG.ztn.zer.de. 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