Word: bosnian
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...snacking on cantaloupe, perusing a Harper's Bazaar and affecting an impressive calm. Impressive because she is surrounded by more chain-smoking attendants than even the Texan rock-star aspirant seated across the green room. While there is no faux blond manager in black crochet at the young Bosnian girl's disposal, her entourage is a solicitous group that includes her lawyer father and chemist mother, their Serbo-Croatian translator, a publicist and a representative from Zlata's French publisher, whose apparent purpose is to help make the Filipovics' stay more enjoyable by suggesting they go see The Phantom...
Zlata's Today show interview is the first stop on her five-city U.S. tour to promote Zlata's Diary, an account of her family's life in the besieged Bosnian capital. The book has become an international best seller since its initial publication last fall, and when Zlata sits down with Katie Couric, it is immediately clear she has become adept at answering painful questions about her tragically abbreviated girlhood...
...Bosnian Croat separatists removed their heavy weapons from around the city of Mostar in order to meet a U.N. deadline. Shocked Muslim residents of the city's eastern quarter emerged to a neighborhood they scarcely recognized after nine months of shelling. Every single structure has been devastated -- including the once graceful arc of the 400-year-old Stari Most, or Old Bridge...
...signal the beginning of the end of the 23-month-old war in Bosnia. Negotiators in Washington reached a preliminary agreement to join the Muslim- and Croat-controlled areas of Bosnia in a Switzerland-like federation carved out of the 33% of Bosnia not controlled by the Serbs. The Bosnian Serbs agreed to allow relief flights to land at the besieged Muslim-held airport in Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia after Russia said it would send peacekeeping troops to monitor the flights...
...game of restoring its influence. By applying pressure along ethnic fault lines and playing rival political factions against one another, Moscow has succeeded in making its presence count among its former vassals. At the same time, Russian diplomats have ventured farther abroad, playing a successful part in easing the Bosnian conflict -- most recently by persuading the Serbs to open the airport in the besieged town of Tuzla. While Russians feel a new sense of pride as their mediation efforts pay off, these activities have also provoked speculation that the imperialist Russian bear has awakened from its post-cold war snooze...