The rally has been organised by the RCN, RCM and JNA nursing and midwifery unions, to allow workers to demonstrate after rejecting a 3% pay rise.

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With the announcement last week that the Serb-dominated federal army (JNA) would withdraw -- for the moment at least -- from its bases in Slovenia, the prospect has grown that this force would not simply relocate through the neighboring Croatian republic, but occupy it.

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