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Militants seeking independence for Croatia have struck inside the U.S. in the past. In December 1975 Croatian nationalists were suspected of planting a bomb in a luggage locker at La Guardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Less than a year later, Croats hijacked a TWA jet traveling from New York City to Chicago and eventually diverted it to Paris. As part of that operation, the group also planted a bomb at Grand Central Terminal, which killed a police officer who tried to defuse it. In June 1980 Croatian "freedom fighters" detonated a bomb inside the museum...
...first indications began to emerge last summer, when Muslim and Croat victims described mass rapes by Serbs to the International Red Cross and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The women -- some escaped to Croatia, some still living in Bosnia, some in concentration camps -- all told of being forcibly taken by Serb troops, often to temporary "camps" in inns, hotels, schools, town halls and even restaurants. There they would be raped by a procession of Serb soldiers, then either released or sent to one of the larger concentration camps in Bosnia. Other women have been repeatedly raped in their...
...PERUCA HYDROELECTRIC DAM, NORTH OF THE Croatian city of Split, may not yet be doomed. But it is in serious trouble. Though the dam is located outside the areas designated for Croatia's rebellious Serbs by last year's peace plan, the Serbs had threatened to blow it up rather than hand it over to their Croatian rivals...
...airport, and a stinging condemnation from the U.N. Nevertheless, the action has given Croats new confidence that they can give the Serbs who pummeled them in 1991 a taste of their own medicine. Though another emergency cease-fire was declared Friday, such sentiments betray the more likely future for Croatia. (See related story on page...
...that won the Serbs' support. They are convinced the plan can be reconciled with their own self-determination. For some parts of Bosnia, that might mean virtual union with Serbia. Since the Croats have similar designs for the three provinces designated for their control, all of which conveniently abut Croatia itself, Muslims, Bosnia's largest ethnic group, justifiably fear a squeeze. Talks resumed in Geneva on Saturday, but the fighting is sure to outpace the talking...