DETAILS ABOUT MILOSEVIC'S ARREST AND PRISON STAY

BELGRADE, April 2 (Hina) - The prison cell of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is three metres wide and four metres long, with a small window on the cell's heavy metal door through which Milosevic is pushed in food and supervised. In one corner of the cell, there is a table, nailed down to the cement floor, and a chair. In the other corner, there is a squat toilet and a small wash basin with hot and cold water. The cell reportedly also includes a shower stall. A metal bed stands below a barred window. These are conditions in Belgrade's Central Prison in which Milosevic has been living since Sunday. The prison is besieged by large groups of reporters who are awaiting the arrivals and departures of Milosevic's attorney Toma Fila and a possible encounter with Milosevic's wife Mira or daughter Marija, who have been allowed to visit Milosevic every day. Belgrade papers today bring almost exclusively detailed reports about the drama which lasted exactly 32 hours and the events which took place after Milosevic's arrest. A story published by today's issue of the Vecernje Novosti paper sounds almost impossible. On Sunday morning, a reporter for this paper managed to enter, without any problems, Milosevic's former residence and make a short interview with Milosevic's wife. After she entered the villa, the reporter saw only one man, who was "working on a computer," and asked him if Mrs. Markovic was in the house. The man showed her the way to Milosevic's wife, that is, to one of the salons where she found Mrs. Markovic sitting alone, in an armchair, dressed in black. A small table stood in front of her, with a plate and two sausages and a slice of bread on it. The reporter claims Milosevic's wife was "happy" to see her and that "somebody is still inquiring about them." They had a brief conversation, the reporter asked her how she was feeling, to which Markovic replied: "We are holding up, except for Marija (daughter)." After this, a man, who said he was one of Milosevic's guards, entered the room. Markovic suddenly stood up and said: "You go ahead and have coffee. I have to take my husband a meal to prison." Marija Milosevic was not in the villa. The reporter claims Milosevic's daughter suffered a nervous breakdown after Milosevic's arrest and was taken to a friend living nearby. There has been no information on Milosevic's son Marko although it was rumoured that he was in his family's house in Pozarevac. It was later established that this was not true and that only his wife Milica and two-year-old son Marko were in the house. Despite much speculation, a lot could be cleared on Monday - such as the arrests, which followed after Milosevic's transfer to prison. It has been confirmed that the group of armed persons protecting Milosevic in the villa were headed by Sinisa Vucinic and several armed men. Vucinic is the leader of the Radical Left Party, member of the Yugoslav Left, headed by Mira Markovic. Vucinic was arrested on Sunday morning under the charges of obstructing police in carrying out their duties. A paper which looks like a plan for a general 'April rebellion' was found on Vucinic, but there have been no further reports on this. It is assumed that the plan is an irrelevant piece of paper with a high- sounding title "The Plan for Organising an Armed Rebellion in Serbia." The police on Monday continued searching the villa which could be hiding more weapons than was found in the first search on Sunday. Below the villa, called "The Oval Residence", there is a maze of underground passages and tunnels leading to several residences at Dedinje (a Belgrade residential area). The Yugoslav Army Main Staff today denied that it was linked in any way to the weapons and other equipment the police found in Milosevic's villa and surrounding area. A statement issued by the Main Staff said the discovered weapons were "not within the army's jurisdiction at all." (hina) rml