Word: balkanize
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...only by finding his hidden source of power and destroying it. Modern Serbia has no shortage of wicked sorcerers who fit that archetype, and first among them is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In the late 1980s Milosevic loosed chaos upon the former Yugoslavia by conjuring up the ghosts of Balkan nationalism. The four years of war that followed dismembered the country, killed some 100,000 civilians and turned the President into an international pariah. Within Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last November, when the first sustained attempts to defy Milosevic began rocking the Serbian capital, Belgrade. During...
...ladder of the Yugoslav secret police. In 1988 he was promoted to chief of Belgrade's security operations. It was in this position that he first caught the attention of Milosevic, who had been elected President of Serbia the year before. In March 1991, three months before the Balkan wars began, the President placed Stanisic in charge of Serbia's entire security service...
...America's presence in Europe, particularly in the war torn Balkan States, is more important now than ever, former assistant secretary of state Richard C. Holbrooke said yesterday at the Yenching Lecture Hall...
...BALKAN WAR CRIMINALS...
When the rags-to-riches U.S. immigrant returned to his Balkan homeland in July 1992 to be Prime Minister and challenge Slobodan Milosevic's power, some cynics saw it merely as a way to protect the Yugoslav interests of his company, ICN Pharmaceuticals. Panic may have been naive--he lost a fraud-wracked presidential election against Milosevic on Dec. 20, 1992, and was ousted as P.M. nine days later--but his idealism was genuine. Today Panic has "no interest in politics," he says, preferring to act as an informal economic adviser to the region. He also still runs...