Word: croatia
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...CONQUEST CAME WITH SURPRISING EASE. FOR months Serb forces have struggled to secure a broad corridor across northern Bosnia connecting Croatian regions they control with Serbia itself. The town of Bosanski Brod, where Muslim and Croat troops were easily supplied from across the Sava River in Croatia, was a stone in their path...
When Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence and appealed for international recognition last year, Macedonia had no choice but to follow suit. Otherwise it would have been swallowed up by Serbia...
...quick to recognize the other breakaway republics, including Croatia, whose regime discriminates against local Serbs. But the Community stiff-armed Macedonia. Why? Because Greece objects to the name and exercised a veto in the councils of the E.C. Macedonia is the birthplace of Alexander the Great and the name of Greece's northern province. Therefore Athens thinks it has a 2,400-year-old trademark on the word...
...Trnopolje. Women and children filled about half of one, and they ordered men to fill the rest. There were some people who wanted to go; others were scared. But we had hope because they told us the buses were under the protection of the United Nations forces in Croatia and were heading for the Croatian border. As we were getting on, my sister-in-law pleaded that she and my 16-year-old nephew be let on too. One of my brothers stayed behind...
...increase as much as fivefold the strength of the peacekeeping force. The new troops, to be supplied by NATO countries other than the United States, would be deployed to protect U.N. convoys and help get detainees on both sides out of the war zones. For its part, Washington praised Croatia for interdicting an Iranian plane carrying weapons intended for Bosnian Muslim forces, and also urged a ban on military flights, to thwart Serbian bombing runs in Bosnia...