Yugoslavia

Secretary of State George P. Shultz, pounding the table for emphasis, rebuked Yugoslavia's foreign minister Tuesday for saying that the Belgrade government believes the way to stop terrorism is to eliminate the conditions that cause it. Shultz, his face flushed, declared that terrorism "has no connection with any cause--it's wrong."

Slovenia accused Serbia of secretly ordering the printing of $1.4 billion in new money to pay its debts, threatening a new bout of inflation and acceleration of Yugoslavia's impending breakup. Slovenian Prime Minister Lojze Peterle said Serbia's unilateral action is "robbing" the other republics and warned that his government might issue a separate currency before the end of the month to protect Slovenes from the consequences he expects to be disastrous.

A Yugoslav deserter who killed two policemen while on the run from his army unit was shot and killed by militiamen Monday after a car chase in northwest Yugoslavia, the official Tanjug news agency said. Several hundred troops had pursued Bojan Plut, 19, since he fled from the Ljubljana Barracks on May 1 armed with an automatic rifle and 700 rounds of ammunition. He ambushed a car carrying two policemen Saturday, shooting both to death.

When he marched in the opening ceremony, 18-year-old U.S. water polo driver Tony Azevedo couldn't help but be awed. "It was like, 'Oh, my God, I'm here. I'm talking to Marion Jones and Lindsay Davenport is sitting next to me,' " said Azevedo, a graduate of Long Beach Wilson High and one of the youngest players in the water polo tournament. "It was kind of a shock. But we had 11 days to sort things out. We're not here to meet all these people--we're here to rock and roll."

Viktor Jelenic of Yugoslavia scored on a power play with 21 seconds remaining to salvage a 9-9 draw with Russia in a water polo preliminary round. Yugoslavia, a gold-medal favorite, wasted a three-goal lead and had to battle hard from one goal down to clinch the draw. In other matches, Tamas Kasas scored three goals and notched the winner late in Hungary's 9-8 victory over Germany; Croatia beat Romania, 11-6; Italy defeated Ukraine, 8-6; and Spain topped the Netherlands, 8-7.

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Slobodan Milosevic, a hard-line Communist, was sworn in as Serbia's president and prepared for talks with political rivals in Slovenia and Croatia to achieve unity in Yugoslavia. But Slovenian President Milan Kucan said leaders of Yugoslavia's six republics must overcome many problems before they can learn to co-exist. Milosevic assumed office at the opening session of Serbia's first freely elected parliament in five decades.

Ljudmila Pavlov, the late replacement for Monica Seles on the Yugoslav Federation Cup team, lost two matches Monday as Indonesia defeated Yugoslavia, 3-0, in a first-round match at Nottingham, England. "With Monica, we would have been in the semifinals," said Branislav Todorovic, an official of the Yugoslav Tennis Federation. "Instead, we lost to Indonesia for the second straight year."

Yugoslavia's army said security forces in the independence-minded republic of Croatia are preparing terrorist attacks on the military. The charge is an escalation of rhetoric in the standoff that pits authorities and Serbia, the largest republic, against the northern republics of Croatia and Slovenia.

Rebellious Serbs erected roadblocks near towns in the republic of Croatia, sharpening the crisis between Yugoslavia's two biggest ethnic groups. Croatian officials vowed to yield no ground to the rebels. The actions followed a shoot-out Sunday between Serbs and Croatian police in which three people were killed. Minority Serbs in the Croatian region of Krajina want to separate from the republic because they fear persecution.