Word: muslim
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...federation agreement is both complex and incomplete. It provides for a merger of the Croat and Muslim areas of Bosnia under a strong central government and for a system of cantons with their own legislatures and courts. Bosnia's President, Alija Izetbegovic, and Croatia's Franjo Tudjman thought enough of the plan to fly to Washington to sign the papers linking their two countries. But what the arrangement does not cover is almost as important: the Serbs and the 72% of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina they occupy...
While the U.S. has been prodding the Bosnian Croats and Muslims toward agreement, Moscow has been working on the Serbs. Russia's special envoy Vitali Churkin went to Belgrade to urge Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to look carefully at the Muslim-Croat federation. Churkin said he found Milosevic "flexible and constructive." That may be because the Serb leader is feeling the pinch of U.N.-enforced economic sanctions -- more than half the work force is effectively unemployed -- and fearful that Croatia, no longer preoccupied with Bosnia, might divert its armed forces to the Krajina front...
...death sentence pronounced five years ago and reconfirmed last month. Iranian operatives are suspected in the killings of Saudi and Jordanian intelligence agents as well as the murders of five Turkish intellectuals since 1990. "Turkey is a prime target," says Istanbul police chief Necdet Menzir, "because we are a Muslim country with a secular democratic system...
Bosnian Croat separatists removed their heavy weapons from around the city of Mostar in order to meet a U.N. deadline. Shocked Muslim residents of the city's eastern quarter emerged to a neighborhood they scarcely recognized after nine months of shelling. Every single structure has been devastated -- including the once graceful arc of the 400-year-old Stari Most, or Old Bridge...
Through July 3. "Pattern and Purpose: Decorative Arts of Islam." This exhibit presents a selection of the ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and other decorative media that have been created to beautify life in the Muslim world...