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DATE=10/06/00

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

TITLE= YUGO POL

NUMBER=2-267541

BYLINE= EVE CONANT

DATELINE=PRISTINA

INTERNET=YES

CONTENT=

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INTRO: The government of Slobodan Milosevic appears to have collapsed. Mr. Milosevic is said to be hiding in a bunker near the eastern Serbian town of Bor. As we hear from correspondent Eve Conant in Pristina, the state news agency Tanjug says Yugoslav military chiefs are meeting in urgent session.

TEXT: Yugoslavia's democratic opposition Friday established a crisis headquarters charged with preparing for a new session of the Yugoslav parliament. Opposition spokesman Milan Protic told radio B292 the headquarters would be in his words "another step towards forming legitimate representative bodies in the country". He added the move was also necessary to lead from the state of emergency in to one of regular political life.

The opposition was in charge in the capital's streets Friday after a popular revolution apparently swept President Slobodan Milosevic and his government from power. The Tanjug news agency reported Friday that Yugoslavia's military chiefs had been meeting in Belgrade throughout the night.

The city turned into a huge open-air party in the early hours with dancing in the streets. Opposition supporters said they were celebrating their new found freedom.

Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic said president Milosevic is presently hold up in the eastern town of Bor, some 80 kilometers southeast of the capital near the border with Romania and Bulgaria.

In a sign that a transition of power is taking place, a daily newspaper long known as the mouthpiece of the Milosevic government published a special edition Friday calling opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica the president of Yugoslavia. The Politica daily carried the entire text of the speech Mr. Kostunica delivered at a huge rally in downtown Belgrade late Thursday.

State television and the official Tanjug news agency also changed editorial policy after opposition supporters took control of Belgrade streets.

On Thursday more than half a million opposition supporters stormed the federal parlement television tower and other symbols of the Milosevic regime, calling on him to step down. Opposition leader Mr. Kostunica told the crowds that within days he would ask European leaders to cancel all sanctions against Serbia. He urged them to remain calm; opening his address with the phrase, "Good evening, liberated Serbia." (Signed)

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