NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that leaders of the Opposition movement in Serbia have come to the United States asking for help in achieving democratic reform there. Three months of protest this past winter in the Serbian capital of Belgrade failed to dislodge Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Those protests began in November after the Milosevic government annulled results that gave Opposition parties victories in some municipal elections. In late February, Milosevic acknowledged the victories and the street protests stopped. But the Opposition leaders say that since then, Milosevic is returning to his old ways -- even refusing to meet with them.
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