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The Serbian Orthodox Church announced in Belgrade on 25 August that
Patriarch Pavle will visit Montenegro on 28 August, RFE/RL's South
Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported. In Cetinje, the smaller
Montenegrin Orthodox Church protested the trip as an attempt to
influence believers in advance of the next census. The pro-Belgrade
People's Party (NS) said it will launch a campaign to persuade
Montenegrins to declare themselves as Serbs in the census. This
controversy is but the latest chapter in the more than a century-long
dispute among Montenegrins as to whether they are a distinct people or a
special branch of the Serbian nation (see "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 19
January 2001). PM
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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the
mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fevered pitch and the
blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no
need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry,
infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their
rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I
have done. And I am Caesar.
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