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...after day, police and irate ethnic Albanians clashed in Yugoslavia's southern Kosovo province as the demonstrators protested their domination by the Serbian republic, of which Kosovo is a part. By the end of last week at least 20 people were dead, and the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti warned, "Kosovo is a step away from civil...
...become wildly popular among his fellow Serbs. But his ) strident chauvinism and the rest of the federation's fears of the Serbs, who account for more than 8 million of Yugoslavia's 24 million people, could be pushing the country toward disintegration. Milosevic has reasserted Serbian control over Kosovo, the historic cradle of Serbian culture and religion but today an autonomous enclave where 90% of the 1.9 million population is Albanian. In the process, he has touched off violent riots and alienated much of the rest of Yugoslavia...
Months of deepening tension between its bitterly divided national republics and ethnic groups have brought Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations. Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians joined the strike, forcing the resignations of provincial Communist Party boss Rahman Morina and other officials considered to be puppets of Serbia...
...Belgrade half a million resentful Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbian!" demanded a drastic expansion of their control over the province and stiff retaliatory measures against the ethnic Albanian majority. The spiraling unrest drove Raif Dizdarevic , leader of Yugoslavia's collective presidency, to dispatch paramilitary units and tanks into Kosovo while banning all public gatherings. The unrest also exacerbated the rift between Serbia and the republic of Slovenia...
After its setback last week, the Serbian party leadership canceled a mass rally in support of Milosevic that had been scheduled to take place in Belgrade at the conclusion of the Central Committee session. In Kosovo, however, thousands of Serbs gathered to boo, whistle and turn their backs on two Central Committee members who tried to address them. "You have betrayed Kosovo!" some cried. "You have sold your souls...