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paramilitary volunteers from Serbia proper under the command of Vojislav
Šešelj. On Easter Sunday, 31 March 1991, Croatian police officers entered the
national park to expel the Serb rebels.
Serb paramilitaries ambushed
His colleague Mladen Pavković later
a bus carrying Croatian police into described
Jović's
last
the national park on the road north before he was transferred to the
of Korenica, sparking a day-long ambulance.
gun battle between the two sides. People's Army helicopter landed to
Jović was struck by burst fire at the transfer him to hospital, Jović was
post-office building, penetrating his already dead. He will be buried with
bulletproof vest. military honors at the cemetery in
When
a
moments
Yugoslav
Aržano.
THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
Zagreb, Yugoslavia – Sunday, May 6, 1990
Thanks to the group Riva and their song
22
countries
Rock Me, last year's winner at Eurovision in participated in the
Switzerland, Yugoslavia (Croatia) became the contest. The fall of
host of the 35th European Song Contest, which the
took place yesterday at the Vatroslav Lisinski communism and the
Concert Hall in Zagreb. The election was led by German
Helga Vlahovic and Oliver Mlakar. unification were the
European
re-
main issue of the
songs.
Famous
Italian
singer Toto Cutugno
won this year's song
cotest with the song