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YUGOSLAVIA-KOSSOVO: SOLDIERS ARMED WITH MACHINE-GUNS PROHIBIT A RADICAL DEMONSTRATION.

Pristina, 10 July 1990. The conference promoted by the Yugoslavian Radicals and which was to host Professor Slobodan Lang, of the university of Dubrovnik, a prominent exponent of the League of Yugoslavian communists and member of the Radical Party, Diana Rexephi, Albanian, Radical of Zagreb, and Marino Busdachin of the Federal Council of the Radical Party, announced with much emphasis by the Albanian speaking newspaper "Rilindia", was prohibited at the last moment.

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YUGOSLAVIA-KOSSOVO: MEETING BETWEEN A DELEGATION OF THE RADICAL PARTY AND EXPONENTS OF THE ALBANIAN CIVIL FORUM.

Pristina, 11 July 1990. Radicals Lang, Busdachin, Rexephi and Cesmadziski, were received by Hairullah Gorani and by the leaders of all the democratic parties as well as by several members of the Parliament of Kossovo, which was declared dethroned by the Government of Serbia after the approval of the Declaration of Independence. The Radicals were informed of the extreme gravity of the Yugloslavian political situation, and especially of the persecutions toward the Albanian minority.

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ITALIAN PARLIAMENT: APPROVES THE INSTITUTION OF THE SPECIAL COMMISSION FOR COMMUNITY POLICIES

Rome, July 1990. Statement by Peppino Calderisi, president of the European Federalist Group: "(...) This is an important decision, not only because it means the overcoming of the chronic delays in the reception of community directives, but also because it enables the Chamber of Deputies to exert a role of control and orientation in the formative process (...) of community law (...)".

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YUGOSLAVIA-MACEDONIA: NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS IN MACEDONIA

Skopje-Kumanovo, 11 July 1990. 7 persons joined the Radical Party after the debates on Europe organized by the Macedonian Radicals.

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YOGOSLAVIA: "BORBA", THE DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE LEAGUE OF YUGOSLAVIAN COMMUNISTS, POLEMICALLY ATTACKS SLOBODAN LANG FOR HIS BELONGING TO THE RADICAL PARTY.

Pristina, 11 July 1990. In the second page of the daily newspaper "Borba", a very violent attack was directed against Professor Slobodan Lang, member both of the League of Communists and of the Radical Party. Lang's comment: "This is not the first time that they attack me in this way because of my reformative positions. But it is the first time that I am accused of being a trouble-maker and an instigator. In Kossovo I wanted to inform the Albanians that I support their fair requests of autonomy and respect of legality and of human rights. I have always declared that I am a Social Democrat adhering to the League of Communists, for which the Radical Party is the best political instrument for the new Mediterranean and European Renaissance. I declared this also on television, in open contrast with the President of the Republic, Slobodan Milosevic."

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CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION-USSR:A DRAFT BILL PRESENTED IN MOSCOW FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION. THE GROUP OF DEPUTIES THAT ELABORATED THE BILL IS COORDINATED BY DEPUTY ALEXANDER KALININ, MEMBER OF THE TRANSNATIONAL RADICAL PARTY.

Moscow, 17 July 1990. Irina Podelssova, Alexander Pronozin and Nikolaij Kramov of the Radical Party took part in the discussion of the draft bill drawn up by members of the Russian Parliament Alexander Reznik, Alexander Domrin and by the member of the Moscow Soviet and member of the Radical Party Alexander Kalinin. The discussion was also attended by the representatives of the "The Civil Peace" association, by the committee of the mothers of soldiers, by the "Obratnaja Sviaz" Union and by the League against nationalism and racism.

The Radicals especially expressed themselves against any type of discrimination against civil service: the length of which should not exceed that of the military service.

The Radicals also stressed the need to change the part concerning the authorization to make a civil service in the current draft bill, which, if left unaltered, would be in contrast with the Declaration of Human Rights.

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APPEAL TO THE SUPREME SOVIET FOR A LAW ON CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION: 560 SIGNATURES COLLECTED ON THE FIRST DAY.

Moscow, 22 July 1990. The Radical Party, the International Association "The Civil Peace", the committe of the mothers of soldiers and the liberal group of the deputies of the Mossoviet have started the signature collection campaign on an appeal to the Supreme Soviet for the acknowledgement of conscientious objection. It is in the intentions of the promoters of the initiative to hand in the signatures directly to President Gorbachev.

The appeal, among other things, states: "(...) We are convinced that the adoption of the law on conscientious objection will contribute to the affirmation of the spirit of confidence and cooperation in international relations, to the elimination of the war threat, and will also clear some of the political, psychological and legal obstacles which block the path for the construction of a united Europe, and especially to the formation of a united space of European law. (...)

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ITALY-DEBATE ON INFORMATION. "NO ADVERTISEMENT ON RAI (THE STATE TELEVISION), ONLY ONE NETWORK TO PRIVATE ENTREPRENEURS".

PRESS BULLETIN OF THE EUROPEAN FEDERALIST GROUP.

Rome, 25 July 1990. With the modification of one single article of the law on information, it is possible to ensure the public and private broadcasting system with the conditions necessary to guarantee the presence of a variety of subjects in competition with one another, such as to avoid those situations of monopoly and oligopoly against which the Constitutional Court pronounced itself.

The Radical amendment has the intention of achieving, in a reasonable lapse of time, and with predetermined stages, two goals:

- a public service guarantied only by public funds;

- a private sector with strict limits decided by the law as to the number of networks or concessions at a local level (maximum of one national network and one circuit for each operator).

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ESTABLISHMENT OF A RADICAL ASSOCIATION IN AZERBAIJAN

Baku, 1 August 1990. In a letter addressed to Sergio Stanzani and Marco Pannella, Secretary and President of the Radical Party, Ali Rasizade, Rouslan Sadirkhanov and Alexander Kabakov announced the establishment of a new association in Baku. 68 members of the Radical Party took part in the constituent assembly. The address of the office is: 370004 Baku, 4 Iskenderov Street, 1-16 (A. Rasizade), tel. (8922)- 921 505/392 716

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA: OPEN LETTER TO THE SO-CALLED "EXTRAPARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY"

Prague, 1 August 1990. Paolo Pietrosanti, member of the federal council of the Radical Party, and Richard Stocker, treasurer of the Radical Association for the United States of Europe, sent an open letter to the "extraparliamentary assembly" to which the majority of the parties which have not obtained seats in Parliaments in the elections of the 8th and 9th of June takes part. In their letter, the two radicals ask themselves questions concerning the confusion between democracy and electoral system which seems to be the origin of this initiative. While acknowledging the only too fair right of these parties to better organize themselves in view of the coming elections, Pietrosanti and Stockar stress the value of the Anglo-Saxon or majority electoral system, which, while privileging the effective choice of the government on the part of the citizens, to the detriment - this is logical - of a so-called direct representativity, has enabled two democracies, the British one and the U.S. one, not only to resist and o

vercome critical moments (as during the two world wars), but also to grow stronger and develop itself without revolutionary or violent traumas.