Word: franjo
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DECLARED INCAPACITATED. FRANJO TUDJMAN, 77, critically ill President of Croatia; by the Constitutional Court in Zagreb. His powers were temporarily transferred to Parliament Speaker Vlatko Pavletic...
...years' imprisonment. "They didn?t have much choice but to put him on trial, because letting him go free would have caused an international scandal," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The Sakic sentence came in the context of repeated attempts by Croatia?s current president, Franjo Tudjman, to resurrect the reputation of Croatia?s wartime pro-Nazi Ustashe regime, which enthusiastically rounded up Serbs, Jews and Gypsies and ran its own concentration camps during the German occupation of the Balkans ? and serious criticism of Tudjman's own human rights record...
...that day, after Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic had affixed their signatures to the document under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee Palace, Chirac and Clinton huddled alone in Chirac's second-floor office. The crux of their discussion that evening was what to do about Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander, General Ratko Mladic. A senior French official who had recently returned from Bosnia had convinced Chirac that Mladic and Karadzic still controlled the situation on the ground and could derail the accords at any time...
...waded deep into politically charged--and physically dangerous--territory, for example, traveling to Bosnia to visit with victims of land mines in her campaign against the devices. "She wanted to know everything," says FRANJO KRESIC, who lost both legs and had his eyesight damaged by land mines. "How I survived, how my wife helped me survive, how we have coped with it. At first I was paralyzed--it was a big thing to have a princess in your home. But after a while, I felt as if we had known each other for a long time. She wanted...
...Nations. Once on the ground, though, Albright will rely heavily on her patented blunt talk. She won't be as bare-knuckled with these sensitive rivals as she was during her visit to the Balkans last May when she repeatedly dressed down Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian strongman Franjo Tudjman in public. But she will deliver a "reality check" to Arafat and Netanyahu on the consequences of their standoff, says her spokesman James Rubin...