Word: ljubljana
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Flying in an accident-prone jet with an airline that has a bad safety record still poses a smaller risk than driving to work in a car every day. IVO KLJENAK Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sunday: In a rambling interview with a 60 Minutes reporter, said that "it's better if Jewish people will live together in Israel" and denied ever having worked for the KGB . . . Monday: Left Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, after being forced to stay overnight in an airport lounge when officials denied him entry to the country. (In January he had been asked to leave Slovenia after reports that his entourage had damaged property at a resort while drinking.) . . . Friday: Refused to meet with former U.S. President Richard Nixon, saying the U.S. nearly "impeached Nixon and now Russia is impeaching...
Speaking to an audience of about 50 in Pound Hall, Danilo Turk, a professor of international law at the University of Ljubljana, said the U.N.'s peace proposal would have worked had they sent the troops...
...Tuesday each republic proclaimed its sovereignty. The next day tank columns moved toward border crossings, and the 20,000 federal troops in Slovenia were placed on combat alert. In the early-morning hours of Thursday, 40 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers rolled toward the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to secure the republic's main airport, and traded artillery and antitank fire with small pockets of Slovenian defense forces. The airport was hit by air-to-ground missiles -- one of the few aerial bombardments on the European continent since World...
...Slovenia had hoped to use its bold declaration of independence as a negotiating card, by week's end the republic had its stalwart performance to buttress resolve. The Yugoslav army, by contrast, will have much to explain. The use of missiles on Ljubljana's airport seemed excessive, given the purported objective of restricting access to Slovenia. More inexplicable still, Yugoslav jets fired on civilian trucks and reportedly entered Austrian airspace...