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Outsiders, however, have done little to head off the breakup, largely because there have been no obvious ways to do it. Like Moscow, the U.S. and the European Community are voicing support for unity and refuse to recognize the secessionist republics...
...republics and two semiautonomous provinces have threatened to rip apart the Yugoslav nation. But Slovenia's quest to extricate itself from the quarrelsome federation had been relatively peaceful. The sudden eruption of armed hostilities between Slovenia and the central government in Belgrade raised fears that Yugoslavia's breakup might be at hand...
This chronology would also help explain the dawning of life on land, which occurred around the same time. The breakup of a supercontinent such as this one, scientists believe, would trigger massive flooding of the continents and the creation of shallow coastal waters -- exactly the kind of spawning ground from which sea creatures first emerged and adapted to life on the shore...
...civil war, resulting in the breakup of the union, may occur if the central authorities deny the right of national self-determination and thus provoke secessionist explosions across the country. Or Russian nationalists could deliberately stimulate secessionism. But history could help us avert such a disaster. We experienced civil war at the beginning of this century. Perhaps the vividness of that memory will deter us from repeating the same mistake at the end of this century...
...army proposal to declare a national state of emergency. The next day, two more presidency members who supported Jovic followed suit. Voicing fears that the country was headed inexorably toward civil war, Jovic said he was "not ready to go along with such decisions that are leading to the breakup of the country." For his part, Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic found his grip on power seriously weakened by the turmoil. With the prospect that the army might yet impose a crackdown, Yugoslavia was left teetering between hope and fear...