SUMMARIES OF SOME OF THE ARTICLES IN THE SLOVENE PRESS

Ljubljana, 13 September - THE DELO: SORRY, NO PETROL - The statements made by some of the world's politicians, such as for example Mitterand and Baker, still do not give any hints of partiality to the Slovene side, while the number of occurrences indicating that things may become entangled and drag on, are increasing. Croatia and Slovenia are not even sovereign states yet, but the Italian Foreign Minister is already promising the Italian ethnic minority in Istria special status, while the proposals for the global protection of the Slovene minority in Italy which have been put off in Rome time after time, have completely slipped his mind. The Macedonians also view the recent Serbian-Bulgarian-Greek meeting with trepidation. In the face of it all, one can not help thinking with a certain amount of bitterness, that the whole problem would doubtlessly meet with a speedy solution - as we witnessed during the Gulf War, were the northeastern republics of former Yugoslavia a tenth as rich in oil as Kuwait, wrote Stane Ivanc in the editorial.