Yugoslavia Government Officials

Yugoslavia's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, has acknowledged that Yugoslav security forces committed genocide in Kosovo and said he is ready to take responsibility for crimes committed by his predecessor, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic, who has been indicted by a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, was forced by a mass uprising this month to admit defeat in September presidential elections.

Yugoslavia's former army commander turned himself in to the U.N. war crimes tribunal here Thursday, insisting that he has "a clear conscience." Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic, 60, is the first of six indictees to make good on a pledge to surrender rather than be arrested and extradited to the court in the Netherlands. He is the most senior Yugoslav army officer to face war crimes charges at the court.

ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc., the company that Yugoslav immigrant Milan Panic built from scratch, is well-positioned to benefit financially from its founder's announcement Thursday that he will accept the post of prime minister for his troubled homeland, financial analysts said. But depending on who is talking, the reasons vary widely.

The military released Serbia's deputy prime minister Saturday, two days after detaining him on suspicion of spying for the United States, but said it still might charge him, fueling tensions between the Serbian leadership and army hard-liners left over from the era of Slobodan Milosevic. The incident on Thursday has angered Washington, which protested the treatment of an American diplomat who was arrested with Momcilo Perisic. Military agents snatched Perisic and the U.S.

Political turmoil consumed Yugoslavia on Friday when federal President Borisav Jovic resigned amid rumblings of civil war, and an ominous military statement raised fears of a coup d'etat. Prime Minister Ante Markovic was closeted with federal government ministers early today in an effort to stave off an explosion of ethnic hostilities that have been building among Yugoslavia's many nationalities.

The Yugoslav consul general in Chicago, a Yugoslav bank, the chairman of its New York branch and two others were indicted Thursday on money-laundering charges in a federal sting operation that officials said involved illegal drug proceeds and possibly espionage. Arrests were made as $2 million in cash was about to be flown from Philadelphia to Chicago, where Yugoslav Consul Gen. Bahrudin Bijedic allegedly was ready to stash it into a diplomatic pouch and fly it to Yugoslavia for laundering.

Slovenia President Milan Kucan: MEE-lan KOO-chan Parliament President France Bucar: FRAHN-tsay BOO-char Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel: Di-MEE-tree ROO-pell Capital, Ljubljana: LYUHB-lee-ah-nah Croatia President Franjo Tudjman: FRAHN-yo TOODGE-mahn Federal Government President Stipe Mesic: STEE-pay MEH-sich Prime Minister Ante Markovic: AN-tay MAR-kaw-vich Defense Minister Veljko Kadijevic: VEL-ykoh kah-DEE-yeh-vich

Aug. 20, 1941 Born in Pozarevac, Serbia. * 1959 Joins the Communist Party. * 1964 Graduates from the University of Belgrade with a law degree. * 1987 Appointed head of the Serbian Communist Party. In April, delivers an inflammatory speech in Kosovo to Serbs demanding protection from the ethnic Albanian majority in the province. The speech catapults Milosevic to prominence. * 1989 Kosovo is stripped of its autonomy.

War crimes prosecutors expanded their indictment against deposed Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday, vowing to bring their infamous captive to account for alleged crimes so that "the victims will not be forgotten and that their stories will be told." Hours after the 59-year-old Milosevic was taken to The Hague's Scheveningen Prison in a stealthy overnight extradition, Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte said additional accusations had been delivered to Milosevic's cell.

As his colleagues in Belgrade struggled over details of a plan to end the NATO bombing destroying their country, the Yugoslav ambassador to the United Nations sped through Ventura and other cities Thursday on a Southern California speaking tour. Traveling in a white Saturn with an old college chum, Ambassador Vladislav Jovanovic gave speeches to an occasionally hostile group in Montecito and a world affairs group in Westlake Village.

Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica named a Montenegrin official Tuesday to become the new prime minister, moving to replace the federal government that collapsed in a dispute over Slobodan Milosevic's extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.

A Yugoslav court sentenced Rade Markovic, the feared Serbian secret police chief under Slobodan Milosevic, to one year in jail for revealing state secrets. Markovic is the first senior Milosevic ally to be convicted by a court since reformers ousted the former Yugoslav president in October. Two of Markovic's former police associates, Milan Radonjic and Branko Crni, also were sentenced to one year in jail, and a third, Nikola Curcic, received a sentence of one year and four months.

Chanting "Treason!" and "Let's rise up!" about 15,000 supporters of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic rallied Monday to protest his extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague. The rally, held in front of the federal parliament by supporters of Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia and the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, was the biggest of three pro-Milosevic protests organized since his extradition Thursday.

On the eve of the most dramatic case of her career, Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte of the international war crimes tribunal glowed Monday with the incandescent pride of one who can finally make good on a sacred promise. It was nine months ago that Del Ponte vowed to the women of the Bosnian town of Srebrenica that she would bring former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to justice for the killings of their menfolk--the worst single atrocity committed in Europe since the Holocaust.

When former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was spirited out of Belgrade by U.N. authorities last week, he reportedly displayed the same unmasked contempt for the international war crimes tribunal that he has since it was created eight years ago.

An overview of the charges against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four of his aides by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Milosevic's indictment: The U.N. war crimes tribunal charged former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four aides in 1999 with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war, accusing forces under their command of atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province.

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president accused of masterminding a decade of Balkan bloodshed, was flown into the arms of international justice here early today, more than two years after his indictment on charges of crimes against humanity. In a clandestine operation that stirred cries of foul in Yugoslavia and fascination here, two unlighted military helicopters touched down on the roof of The Hague's Scheveningen Prison at 1:15 a.m.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was rushed to the hospital late Wednesday after suffering chest pains in his prison cell, his lawyer said. "There were heart problems that necessitated his transferal to the military hospital in Belgrade," said Milosevic's lawyer, Toma Fila. "It was nothing too dramatic." Fila said he expected the district court in Belgrade, the capital, to make an announcement about Milosevic's condition today. Milosevic is known to have high blood pressure.

From street demonstrators to Yugoslav Prime Minister Zoran Zizic--who resigned in protest--supporters and onetime allies of former President Slobodan Milosevic vented their anger Friday at his transfer to a U.N. war crimes tribunal. But many other Serbs sighed with relief that the ousted strongman was truly gone. The hand-over of Milosevic was a "humiliation" that brought "the whole nation below the level of dignity," Zizic declared in announcing his resignation.

War crimes prosecutors expanded their indictment against deposed Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on Friday, vowing to bring their infamous captive to account for alleged crimes so that "the victims will not be forgotten and that their stories will be told." Hours after the 59-year-old Milosevic was taken to The Hague's Scheveningen Prison in a stealthy overnight extradition, Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte said additional accusations had been delivered to Milosevic's cell.