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- THE WEEK, Page 19WORLDFixing the Odds
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- Panic's bid to oust Serbia's Milosevic is stymied, at least
- for now
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- Even antidemocrats like Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic
- crave the legitimacy only elections can bestow; what is vexing
- is the chance of losing. So he fixed the odds. Milosevic now
- risks almost nothing in upcoming Dec. 20 balloting, since the
- Serbian Electoral Commission disqualified his most formidable
- opponent, Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Panic, for failing
- to meet a one-year residency requirement.
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- Panic, a businessman who made a fortune in California
- before taking up his post in July, appealed the decision to the
- Serbian Supreme Court, but that body is headed by the same man
- who heads the Electoral Commission. Leading opposition figures,
- citing other electoral shenanigans from the Milosevic camp,
- have threatened to boycott the elections altogether.
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