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Even if the high command remains united, the army that Josip Broz Tito built during World War II threatens to fracture along the very ethnic lines that have created Yugoslavia's current miasma. Led by a cadre of generals who are the last bastion of hard-line communism in the country, the officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting...
...made up of representatives of all six republics and the two Serbian provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo), Jovic, backed by the army chief of staff, had pressed for a military crackdown. "Milosevic is a fighting man," said Milovan Djilas, a dissident communist who was jailed repeatedly by Marshal Josip Broz Tito in the 1950s and '60s. "He won't go for a fundamental change of policy...
...Serbs, who threw off Turkish rule in the 19th century, are Christian Orthodox; the Croatians, who were subjugated by the Habsburg Empire, are Catholics. Their mutual hatred and distrust keep growing more virulent as nationalist ambitions seethe throughout Eastern Europe. Only the suzerainty of socialism imposed by Josip Broz Tito after World War II managed for a time to keep the rivalry in check...
Yugoslavia, composed entirely of ethnic minorities, broke from Moscow in 1948 but was held tightly together by its forceful first President, Josip Broz Tito. Since his death in 1980, ties among the country's six republics and two autonomous regions have loosened, and an ambitious Serbian nationalist, Slobodan Milosevic, has become wildly popular among his fellow Serbs. But his ) strident chauvinism and the rest of the federation's fears of the Serbs, who account for more than 8 million of Yugoslavia's 24 million people, could be pushing the country toward disintegration. Milosevic has reasserted Serbian control over Kosovo...
...nation's economic miseries. What they got was a three-day Belgrade talkathon that accomplished little -- and may in fact have worsened the political crisis. The biggest loser, at least for the moment, was Slobodan Milosevic, the demagogic Serbian party leader and Yugoslavia's most charismatic politician since Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980. Afraid of Milosevic's success in exploiting nationalistic sentiment among Yugoslavia's 8 million Serbs, his enemies ganged up on him and won at least a temporary victory...