Word: serbia
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...SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Goodbye, Yugoslavia Seventy-four years after its foundation, Yugoslavia was formally dissolved. Politicians of the federation's two remaining republics voted to create a looser union, which will have one army but two currencies, and which will be given a three-year trial run. Last year the European Union urged separatist-leaning Montenegrins to shelve their desire for independence from larger Serbia. The E.U. feared that a move toward independence by Montenegro would encourage other secessionist movements, notably in neighboring Kosovo...
...RECORD Belgrade The U.S. told Serbia to arrest three notorious war criminals or risk losing tens of millions of dollars in American aid. Frankfurt German prosecutors charged an American, Astrid Eyzaguirre, and her German lover, Osman Petmezci, with planning to bomb a U.S. military base in Heidelberg. Medellin In Colombia, a car bomb placed near the office of a regional prosecutor killed at least four people and injured 30. Police blamed guerrillas. Moscow A court began hearing 61 lawsuits claiming $59 million in compensation for deaths and injuries caused by lethal gas used during the October theater siege. Harare Zimbabwe...
...idea is to have the next President elected by the parliament. Amending the constitution may take months or years. Would you keep the post for as long? Just as long as it's necessary. Meanwhile, I'll try to focus on my primary post in the parliament. After all, Serbia has a parliamentary, not a presidential, system, and I hope too much power will never again be put in the hands of one person, the way it used to be during Milosevic's days. Some say you've been moving up too fast. Does the speed of your progress make...
...Hollywood icons in the past. During the anti-Milosevic riots in October 2000, Micic and a female friend taunted the police by cruising Belgrade demonstrations in a car with "Thelma and Louise" inscribed on the hood. As a member of the Civic Alliance, one of the smallest parties within Serbia's 18-member ruling coalition, Micic was virtually unknown in Belgrade until she became a deputy speaker of parliament in late 2000. Her meteoric career has been fueled by luck as well as ambition. She became Speaker a year later, when Dragoljub Marsicanin, a Kostunica aide, was forced...
...leadership did not carve out enemies' eyes with pocket knives, he once told a reporter, they used rusty spoons. He's even accused ex-President Slobodan Milosevic of being too tolerant of minorities. That resumé might be a liability in some parts of the world, but not in Serbia, where the leader of the Serbian Radical Party, 48, is expected to get 30% of the vote in presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 8. He won't win, but the result could provide an unexpected pulpit for his hardline views. "He's my heart and soul," explains Ilinka Tasic...