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DATE=2/7/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=YUGOSLAV DEFENSE MINISTER (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-258924
BYLINE=STEFAN BOS
DATELINE=BUDAPEST
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  Police officials and independent media say 
Yugoslavia's Defense Minister (Pavle Bulatovic) has 
been shot to death in Belgrade.  As Stefan Bos 
reports, Monday night's attack occurred less than one 
month after the murder in Belgrade of Serbia's most 
notorious warlord, (Zeljko Raznatovic) known as Arkan.
TEXT:  The independent television network Studio B and 
police officials in Belgrade say bullets ripped into 
Defense Minister Pavle Bulatovic and two other men.  
The three victims were sitting together Monday night 
in a restaurant operated by the Yugoslav soccer club 
Rad.
Police say one or more attackers opened fire through a 
window.  Mr. Bulatovic, restaurant owner Mirko 
Knezevic and Vuk Obradovic, a banker, were taken to a 
military hospital, where the 52-year-old defense 
minister was pronounced dead.
Special military units and police rushed to the scene 
of the shooting, but there was no word whether anyone 
was detained.
Yugoslav government ministers met in emergency session 
later Monday evening, as word of the assassination 
spread through the city.
// OPT //  Mr. Bulatovic, who had been defense 
minister since 1994, was a Montenegrin national, a 
member of a pro-Serb faction in Montenegro loyal to 
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. 
The dead man was a leading member of the Socialist 
People's Party in Montenegro, which opposes the 
republic's pro-Western government, led by President 
Milo Djukanovic.  // END OPT //
The shooting in Belgrade comes less than one month 
after a similar attack, in the capital's 
Intercontinental Hotel, killed Serbia's most notorious 
warlord, Zeljko Raznatovic, known as Arkan.
Analysts say they are worried about further violence, 
because of what they describe as a power struggle 
within the Belgrade regime and a war among organized 
crime groups.
            /// REST OPT ///
Attackers in Belgrade have killed more than a dozen 
prominent people, including some close to President 
Milosevic, over the past decade.  Most of the 
shootings have never been solved.   (Signed)
NEB/SB/WTW
07-Feb-2000 18:12 PM EDT (07-Feb-2000 2312 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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