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That makes Janko Tipsarevic, another leading young Serb player, proud in a vinegary sort of way. "All that we have in tennis came from mud, from nothing," Tipsarevic told reporters earlier this year about his compatriots achievements. Tipsarevic, an iconoclast with rings in his eyebrows and a quote from Dostoyevsky's The Idiot tattooed, in Japanese, on his forearm, is the most talkative of the new crop. "Nobody in our country invested one dollar into any one of our players," he said. His tongue-in-cheek explanation for why so many Serbs are suddenly playing...
...DIED. JANKO BOBETKO, 84, former Croatian army chief and war-crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb. Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army. After Croatia's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered a six-month war against Serb rebels, Bobetko joined the Croatian army and was appointed its Chief of Staff in 1992. Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during...
...soldiers simply fade away. Janko Bobetko, 83 and ailing, had been keeping a low profile in Zagreb, intent on living out his days in the quiet comfort of the villa he shares with Magdalena, his wife of 57 years. That was before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia banged hard on Bobetko's door in the Croatian capital's tranquil Tuskanac neighborhood - and demanded to see him in the Hague. The tribunal's five-count indictment, unsealed on Sept. 20, charges Bobetko, the Croatian army's former Chief of Staff, with "crimes against humanity" and "violations...
...Janko E. Svarc Caracas
Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Janko, 50, made a particularly dramatic departure. Accused of having had a role in trying to organize a coup in Novotny's behalf last January, Janko shot himself to death in the back seat of his chauffeured Tatra while on the way to answer the charges before the Czechoslovak Cabinet. In an effort to save his own scalp, Novotny himself was forced to fire two of his most loyal men-Interior Minister Josef Kudrna and State Attorney General Jan Bartuska. The Cabinet linked both men to the army coup attempt and, further, accused them...