The maincitiesinSerbia andMontenegro, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and Turkey all saw a relative increaseofmore than 5 percent in the cost of living.
The Yugoslav army and Serb special police have been fighting in northwest Kosovo, near the border with Serbia's sister republicofMontenegro, and near the Albanian border.
Some 24 hours later, after an arduous journey across the mountains, she and her family found temporary sanctuary in the home of an ethnic Albanian man in Tuzi, in the neighboring Yugoslav republicofMontenegro.
Meanwhile, the dictator of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic, is ruthlessly consolidating his control over the southern province of Kosovo and the central republicof Bosnia-Hercegovina, having already successfully imposed his will on the nominally autonomous northern province of Vojvodina as well as the republicofMontenegro.