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...Dead." The indictment has roused a sleepy Croatian nationalism, opening the door to a legal clash between Croatia - which is challenging the indictment and refusing (so far) to hand over Bobetko - and the U.N. war-crimes court. A second front has opened, too, along domestic political lines. Prime Minister Ivica Racan's weak center-left coalition faces a population that largely regards Bobetko as a titan of Croatia's three-and-a-half-year independence war with Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. "Bobetko is a national hero," says one Zagreb man, reflecting the view of up to 80% of the population...
...visited Bosnian offices over the past few years he would withdraw the same sum from a local bank: $50,000 in neat notes, 10 times in two years, or up to half a million bucks since 2000. Then the money would disappear. "We have no idea where it went," Ivica Misic, head of Bosnia's antiterrorism commission told TIME. He has his suspicions, though. In a case now before a U.S. court, FBI investigators are arguing that Arnaout used his Illinois-based charity and its worldwide offices to fund terrorism operations, including Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. Benevolence...
...Kostelics make a specialty of firsts. When the Croatian government issued the first postage stamp to honor a sports personality, Janica won the distinction - after becoming women's slalom and overall World Cup champion in 2001. Not to be outdone, elder brother Ivica set out to establish his own first and became the first person to win a World Cup race from the lowly start position of 64th out of the gate. Not bad for a couple of kids from a country with little tradition in skiing. If both perform to their undoubted ability in Salt Lake City they could...
...retire but the agony of losing seemed to aggravate the pain from the old knee injuries and she underwent three separate operations through the summer, returning to racing in November and slowly improving her results to a fine third place in slalom at Berchtesgaden in January. Her determination moved Ivica to say, "Janica's a great fighter. I think mentally she is the strongest in the World Cup, not only for the women...
...then Ivica knows what fortitude is needed to come back from severe injury. He needed three operations on his right knee and one on his left to repair damage from a 1998 accident. By his gifted sister's standards Ivica was a slow starter, waiting until he was an almost ancient 22 for his first World Cup win. That came in this season's opening slalom at Aspen in November last year, cheered on by his mother, Marica, who said afterward, "Last year, it's my daughter. This year, it's my son." Between his first and second runs Ivica...