Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better hurry. Both Croatian and Krajina Serb forces are preparing to fight the moment the U.N. soldiers depart--or worse, even before they go. Croatia and Muslim-led Bosnia last week signed a military alliance intended to squeeze the Krajina and Bosnian Serbs. The Serbs, in turn, are digging in. "It is abundantly clear that military forces on both sides of the zone of separation are deepening their defensive positions," says Yasushi Akashi, the U.N. special representative in the region. Both sides are building bunkers, cutting trenches and moving heavy weapons into offensive positions...
...recognized as a world statesman--not a mere regional warlord--and he has a chance to play that role this week in a visit to Washington. In public, the State Department is providing him with a place of honor during ceremonies marking the first anniversary of a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
...European allies are portraying Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic as a peacemaker, seeking to lure him into serious negotiations with the Bosnian government and Croatia. Meanwhile, in northwestern Bosnia, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees cut emergency food aid to more than 100,000 Croatian Serbs and Muslim rebels, saying their leaders were making relief efforts impossible...
This is what McConnell argued last week before the Supreme Court in the Rosenberger case, pointing out to the court that U.Va. had given student-activity money to 118 other groups, including a Muslim publication and a gay-and-lesbian organization. The ACLU, the National Council of Churches and the National School Boards Association, among others, filed briefs supporting the university's argument that funding Wide Awake would have violated the First Amendment's establishment-of-religion clause. ACLJ, the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Christian Legal Society backed the Christian students, whose appeal...
...prisoners at Serkadji, Algiers' Alcatraz, used sharpened metal bed slats to slit the throats of four guards and attempted a mass escape, government security forces--the Ninjas, as they are called--swept into the prison. When they were done with their work, at least 96 inmates, most of them Muslim militants, lay dead...