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...fragile truce -- the sixth in just three months -- held only nine days. Last week the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army, charging that Croatia had violated the cease-fire, launched a new offensive aimed at crushing resistance in the rebel republic. The main targets of the onslaught were the key Croatian towns of Vukovar, Vinkovci and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia's best-known tourist attraction on the Adriatic coast. As warships blockaded the port city, air- force jets bombed and strafed it, while artillery pounded the area, leaving Dubrovnik without electricity and water...
...worst case scenario never occurred. The superpowers sublimated their nuclear tensions into conventional battles between third-world puppet governments and rebel groups...
...targeting tactical nukes, Bush was addressing what has been a growing Western concern about the disintegration of the Soviet Union. For months, an interagency committee of the U.S. government has been quietly studying the danger that rebel or dissident groups might seize weapons and use them for intimidation or worse...
...Georgia hostilities deepened as renegade national guardsmen joined civilian efforts to oust Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the republic's authoritarian president. About 60 rebel guardsmen were reported killed in a clash with republic troops . . . The seizure of power in Tadzhikistan by Rakhman Nabiev, a hard-line former Communist Party chief, prompted thousands of people to defy a newly imposed state of emergency. Crying "Communist coup!," protesters vowed to resist Nabiev's administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among...
Saturday: Rebel Without a Cause. With James Dean and Natalie Wood...