Word: macedonias
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This, say the hardheaded interventionists: Unless the Serbs are stopped in Bosnia, they will next turn on Kosovo and Macedonia and deeply injure our interests by precipitating a larger Balkan war involving Albania, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and possibly Russia...
...Croatia and Yugoslavia. As thousands of Bosnian fighters massed on a mountain southwest of Sarajevo in apparent preparation for an offensive, Boutros-Ghali called for 10,000 U.N. troops to supplement the more than 7,000 who patrol Bosnia. An additional group of 33 U.N. military advisers headed for Macedonia...
...Kosovo, however, has been part of Serbia for centuries; for all its current Albanian majority, Serbs regard it as the cradle of their nationhood. To Bush and others, that consideration is overridden by the danger that Serbian aggression in Kosovo could ignite a general war drawing in Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and even Turkey...
...really is too late? In hopes of heading off future conflict, the U.N. is considering dispatching 700 peacekeepers to Macedonia. Ethnic tension there, already high, could explode if Slobodan Milosevic is re-elected President of neighboring Serbia...
...order -- and further military actions like air strikes on Serbian artillery. British diplomats claim the U.S. has even floated the idea of contributing 100,000 troops to a Western force that could be deployed to prevent the Serbs from moving next into the former Yugoslav segments of Kosovo and Macedonia...