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...France, Holland and, from the sidelines, the U.S. and the United Nations countered that recognition might only provoke the Serbs into expanding the civil war by deploying the national army into Bosnia- Herzegovina to "protect" the Serb minority there. That in turn could cause the conflict to spread to Macedonia, possibly involving Greece; to Kosovo, which has an Albanian majority; even to Hungary, which has a minority ethnic community just across the border with Yugoslavia. Most Croats are also convinced that recognition would allow them to receive better arms from the West, strengthening their resistance...
Concerned parents on both sides of the conflict share the soldiers' lack of enthusiasm for a war that has already claimed 57 lives. Last week in Serbia, mothers took to the streets demanding that their sons return home. In Slovenia, Nada Mesaric, 45, whose son is garrisoned in Macedonia near the Kosovo border, said, "I don't think it's important to any of us whether Yugoslavia stays together...
Yugoslavia's poorer, heavily subsidized southern republics, Macedonia and Montenegro, are far less enthusiastic about a breakup. They may yet join Serbia in resisting such a move, or enlist in a new political grouping with Belgrade as its base. Further disintegration could also lead to aggressive new moves by Serbia, which has said repeatedly that in the event of the federation's breakup, it will redraw its borders. That would probably mean an attempt to annex Kosovo and a struggle with Croatia over the future of the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 33% of the people are Serbs...
...course, the great symbolic marriage during the Age of Alexander was between the rough-riding culture of Macedonia and Thrace and the silkier Persians and other Orientals. Alexander subdued them all, but he also succumbed to their styles...
...been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten by a neighbor's dogs. In Macedonia, Kevin Zook, 14, was mauled to death by a local farmer's four dogs after he ran out of gas while motorcycling on a country road. Says a Royalton mother: "There are streets you can't walk down any more because of dog attacks...