Word: balkanize
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...involvement in the jigsaw of republics that used to make up Yugoslavia. The difficulty of ignoring the merits of Bosnia's claim to help apparently led Washington to plan a call this week for armed enforcement of a much violated two-month-old ban on military flights over the Balkan republic. Others counter that helping Somalia will ease the pressure to intervene in the Balkans by proving the U.S. is not stymied everywhere...
...line that turns up in Balkan propaganda catches the spirit of things: People must decide whether they choose "to be the carcass or the vulture...
Karadzic, the Balkan commando-psychiatrist, explains, "This war is a continuation of World War II -- the same families, the same revenge." Everyone agrees about that. After the war, Tito and communism merely suppressed the blood hatreds. Tribal memory and the fierce dynamic of revenge went into a kind of holding pattern for nearly 50 years. With the collapse of communism, all the terrible deeds committed during World War II (and World War I, for that matter) came streaming back, demanding vengeance. The Croats' alliance with Hitler, and the savage enthusiasm of the Croatian ultra- nationalist organization Ustashi in slaughtering Serbs...
...want to resign from the human race. Here, for example, we see an instrument that looks like a tuning fork, but with the prongs more widely spaced, about 3 1/2 inches apart. A local trademark is to gouge out both eyes. Hence this handy device. Studies in the Balkan Department of Comparative Atrocity...
...radar screen. This sense of a rudderless alliance, moreover, coincides with a tide of crises already crashing or brewing next door: the Yugoslav war, which many observers think will spread soon to Kosovo and Macedonia, and Boris Yeltsin's deepening emergency in Russia. Bush at first left the Balkan conflagration in Europe's hands; of late, Washington-led NATO has skirmished with the strictly European institutions on and off for the right to do nothing about the crisis. Overall, the Euro-American partnership seems so idle and inert that Anderson remarks, "I keep wondering why people talk about NATO anymore...