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A long piece alleges that Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and his cronies have plundered their country, pocketing millions from state-owned companies and foreign-currency reserves.
Not beloved by his people, Milosevic might be hard-pressed to retain power even with the support of his secret police, political cronies, and state-controlled media.
The evidence includes aerial photos of a lakeside village resort complete with Ferris wheel he recently completed, a facility for the exclusive use of his political cronies.
In the same deceptive spirit, Fischer claims that a similar calculation would indicate that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids, or that they never goof off on the golf course--even though he makes no attempt to supply that calculation.
At the same time, the governor and his cronies were busily pocketing bribes, as was the custom in the self-financing French colonial service.