Word: franjo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEAR WHEN YASSER ARAFAT, SHIMON Peres and Yitzhak Rabin worked toward peace--and one of them gave his life--when Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic negotiated the end of Bosnia's lengthy and bloody war, when statesmen who represented the fall of the Iron Curtain are losing their power to a communist comeback, when Helmut Kohl is winning an economic bet in the east of Germany, and President Clinton and his Secretary of State Warren Christopher are defining a new world order, your choice of House Speaker Gingrich as Man of the Year shows how provincial TIME...
...however, the very qualities that aroused such antipathy among Holbrooke's rivals in Washington equipped him ideally for browbeating the men who were running the Bosnian war--Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At times the ruthless Balkan bosses--especially Milosevic--probably saw something of themselves reflected in Holbrooke. He stroked their egos, he laughed at their jokes, he drank their plum brandy--Milosevic praised his skill as a "bulls------ artist." But Holbrooke was also tough. Once, when Izetbegovic was hesitating over a cease-fire agreement, he barked...
...Izetbegovic grumbled that "my government is taking part in this agreement without any enthusiasm but as someone taking a bitter yet useful potion or medication." He openly questioned whether the unified Bosnia foreseen in the treaty will "truly materialize or will it simply remain something on paper?" Croatian President Franjo Tudjman traced the roots of the crisis in Bosnia back more than 15 centuries to "the breakup between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire," obviously implying that the wounds cannot be healed quickly. Bill Clinton, who presided in fact if not in name, was far more upbeat...
...joint Muslim-Croat institutions has been slow, and the promises to return refugees to their homes within Federation territory have gone largely unfulfilled. Many Bosnian Croats harbor hopes to unite their territory with a "Greater Croatia," and much will depend upon whether European economic inducements can encourage Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to support the success of the Federation...
...eyed as they gathered behind the diplomatic table at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, last week. When Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Herzegovina walked to his chair, he focused his gaze downward and barely touched the proffered hands of his counterparts, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia. As the three leaders initialed the stacks of documents that would end the 44-month war among these South Slavs, each gave the impression he was sitting behind an invisible wall, making no contact with the others...