At 17:40 21.09.00 +0200, asgeirbj@student.sv.uio.no wrote:
>Uvanleg informativ reportasje frå New York Times. I tillegg til å fortelje
>om koffertar med kontantar som blir overlevert til den "demokratiske" og
>"uavhengige" opposisjonen, bekreftar journalisten dei serbiske påstandane
>om at meiningsmålingar i jugoslavia blir finansiert av USA.
>
>Kostunica seier at delar av opposisjonen "ubevisst arbeider for amerikanske
>imperialistiske mål". Men med si tilslutning til det marknadsreligiøse
>programmet utforma av G17, høyer Kostunica sjølv heime mellom desse.
>
>
>Asgeir Bjørkedal
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/20/world/20SERB.html
>
>
Meir detaljar om dette frå Washington post:
They have helped train its organizers, equipped their offices with
computers and fax machines and provided opposition parties with
sophisticated voter surveys compiled by the same New York firm that
conducts polls for President Clinton.
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Much of the assistance is channeled through nongovernmental organizations
such as the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a
Washington-based group that among other things has coordinated extensive
public opinion surveys in
Serbia by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, Inc., Clinton's polling firm.
Such surveys can benefit opposition candidates seeking to plot campaign
strategy. But Kenneth D. Wollack, the group's president, says the
organization is careful to make all the poll results public so that it
cannot be accused of backing one
candidate against another.
WP prøver å framstille det som om det ikkje er noko uvanleg eller hemmeleg
ved denne støtta:
There is nothing secret or even particularly unusual about the U.S.
democracy-building program in Serbia, which is closely coordinated with
European allies and is similar to previous campaigns in pre-democratic
Chile, South Africa and Eastern Europe, among other places.
Men avdekker sjølve bløffen om atalt foregår ope:
Mindful of such risks, the endowment recently stopped posting details of
its Serbian program on its Web site. In a similar vein, a NED official
smiled apologetically as he acknowledged that while information on grant
recipients in Serbia is a matter of public record, he could not release
such data without a formal request under the Freedom of Information Act--a
process
that would extend long past Sept. 24.
Because Americans no longer are permitted to work in Serbia, and U.S.
officials are afraid of compromising Serbs who receive their help, aid
recipients typically travel to Hungary and other neighboring countries for
training, strategy sessions and infusions of cash. Some of the American
help also takes the form of humanitarian aid to opposition-led local
governments.
There are signs that the American effort has generated something of a
backlash. Kostunica, the front-runner, makes a point of telling audiences
that he accepts no Western aid.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagena
me=wpni/print&articleid=A13155-2000Sep15
Asgeir Bjørkedal
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