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...come from Bosnia rely on relief supplies from international aid organizations. The majority of the almost 40,000 Bosnians who have sought refuge in the Serbian capital of Belgrade have also been placed in private homes. While many of these newcomers are Serbs, there are also large numbers of Croats and Muslims. "No one so far has specified that they'll only take a Serb or a Croat or a Muslim," says Vidanka Misic of the Red Cross. "The people who want to help don't care whom they help." No action has been taken against these Good Samaritans...
While the war is ripping apart the intricately entwined ethnic mix of the old Yugoslavia, the makeshift arrangements of the dispossessed sometimes forge new bonds. Jelena Pekez, 27, a Croat from the Bosnian town of Jajce, is married to a Serb. Vesna Gacic, 29, a Serb from the Bosnian town of Mostar, is married to a man of Croatian and Muslim descent. Both women fled to Kosmaj, south of Belgrade: Pekez left just ahead of a total blockade of her hometown, Gacic after a frightening 20-day stay in an underground shelter. When the two women's paths crossed...
...fact that Slovenia had no Serb minority to justify Belgrade's interference. That successful bid for freedom emboldened Croatia, where Serbs are a widely dispersed minority. President Franjo Tudjman's inflammatory and nationalistic rhetoric also stirred Serb fears of a reprise of the genocidal campaign against them by Croat fascists during World War II. Now Bosnia, largely Muslim and Croat but with a 1.4 million Serb ethnic component, has seceded, and Serbia sees the pattern repeating. Once again Serbs feel themselves victimized by an uncaring world. Mihailo Markovic, vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, asks...
...driven; international onlookers are merely going along for the ride. Centuries of simmering ethnic hatreds are now so fully aroused that each embattled group is convinced that its opponents -- many of whom were friendly neighbors up until a few months ago -- are guilty of unbounded perfidy. In Bosnia, where Croats, Serbs and Muslims have lived peaceably side by side for decades, the Serbs have already forced Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic to agree to a tripartite division of the newly independent country into ethnic regions. The absurdity of it all is on display in Bosnia's schools, where children...
...company's stock sank in early 1987, British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell launched a hostile takeover bid. In a long and bitter fight, Jovanovich prevailed by recapitalizing HBJ with nearly $3 billion in debt, a large chunk of it in junk bonds. Maxwell, who called Jovanovich "a dumb Croat coal miner" who "killed" the company, has offered to buy some assets. "Maxwell is twisting the knife, and I think it really hurts Bill," says one HBJ insider...