Word: serb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even the slivers are vanishing. "While ((French President Francois)) Mitterrand's visit diverted the world's attention to Sarajevo, the Serbs got all they wanted in northern Bosnia," says Vinko Begic, mayor of Derventa, one of the last towns to fall to the Serb offensive. In eastern Bosnia, only Gorazde, a town whose normal population of 20,000 has been swollen to 70,000 by a tide of refugees, remains a haven for the Muslims, and it is under heavy siege...
There are rich possibilities for more bloodshed in other parts of the country still called Yugoslavia, which now consists only of Serbia and Montenegro. Triumphant Serbs might try to extend their conquests in Kosovo, a province populated overwhelmingly by Albanians; in Macedonia, like Bosnia a former Yugoslav republic that has declared independence; and in Vojvodina, another Serbian province with a large and restless Hungarian minority. Finally, says one diplomat, "there is the Serb-Serb civil war" for control of what would then be a Greater Serbia...
...they ever go into effect, cease-fires in what was once Yugoslavia tend to be a passing fad; roughly 30 have come and gone since the civil wars began in June 1991. Nonetheless, leaders of the Serb, Croat and Muslim communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, conferring in London through intermediaries (they refused to talk face-to-face) arranged one more truce, which was supposed to begin this Sunday evening. Even on the off chance that it holds, will there be enough of Bosnia left to call a country? The answer probably...
While world attention has centered on Sarajevo, the Serbs and Croats who already control most of Bosnia have been taking over more of what had been - left outside their grasp. A Serb offensive in northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side...
...former Soviet players now wear the uniform of Lithuania. Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac led Yugoslavia to the silver medal at Seoul. This time, however, Yugoslavia as such has been banned from Barcelona. Petrovic, a New Jersey Net, will play for Croatia. Divac, a Los Angeles Laker and a Serb, will not be allowed to play. The Germans will be competitive; N.B.A. star Detlef Schrempf will make them so. And in Oscar Schmidt, the Brazilians have one of the game's best three-point shooters. But even if you put all these players on one squad, it would make...