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...opposing side in a dispute that is worth perhaps 50 billion times that amount. Pulses race, heads turn, eyes roll among the negotiators; each side digs its trench a little deeper. This is petro-diplomacy, Timor Sea style. "It's like dealing with the Krajina Serbs (in Croatia)," says Galbraith, a former U.S. Ambassador in Zagreb, describing the Australians, who on the second day of talks declared that Dili's top priority - lateral boundaries - was off the table...
...have been seized in drug raids in the Netherlands, England and Germany, have been cited in several federal security alerts over the past year, the most recent just over a month ago. Though heavier than normal phones, the lethal ones look nearly identical. The hollowed-out devices, made in Croatia, are fired by punching buttons on the keypad and can shoot four .22-cal. bullets in rapid succession...
Delaney-Smith had already known this, as she was the assistant coach for USA Basketball’s team for the 2003 World Championship for Young Women, which won gold in Croatia last summer. Pondexter had been a member of the USA Basketball program for four summers and was the co-captain and starting point guard for Delaney-Smith...
...with a list of fiery complaints about Serbia's oppressors, from "soulless journalists" trying to destroy his party, to NATO, the Hague and, worst of all, the "servants of the West" in Serbia's current government. To set Serbia on the right path, he wants to sever ties with Croatia, return troops to Kosovo, review the "illegal" privatizations that have taken place over the past three years, and end foolish dreams of a Western alliance. "We could have the son of Javier Solana as Prime Minister and they still would not let us in the E.U. for 10 years! Half...
...Bottle, New Wine CROATIA The nationalist opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ,) triumphed at parliamentary polls, bringing an end to the center-left government of Prime Minister Ivica Racan, below, after almost four years. The HDZ won 62 out of 140 seats, enough to forge a government after picking a junior partner from among about a dozen small parties. HDZ leader Ivo Sanader has committed himself to bringing Croatia into NATO...