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...radicals, bent on preserving ties with Serbia, are waging a guerrilla war in Croatia's northeastern region of Slavonia and the southern pocket of Krajina, where the patchwork dispersal of both groups makes a peaceful solution difficult. The goal of the radicals is a Greater Serbia that would absorb Serbian enclaves; arrayed against them is Croatia's ambition to form a separate nation...
...army that Josip Broz Tito built during World War II threatens to fracture along the very ethnic lines that have created Yugoslavia's current miasma. Led by a cadre of generals who are the last bastion of hard-line communism in the country, the officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting in Slovenia are raw recruits called up this year...
...continued well after the deadline, raising disturbing questions about who was in control. And who in Belgrade had ordered the army to attack? Markovic had earlier vowed to use only "legal measures," not force, to keep Slovenia within the federation. The heavy-handed army response suggested that hard-line Serbian generals were running their own operation...
...nearly a decade, Slovenes have squirmed as state funds have been spent by the Serb-dominated federal government to suppress the Albanian majority in the Serbian province of Kosovo. More recently they watched angrily as the free-market reform program pressed by Prime Minister Markovic was undermined by Serbia, whose leadership still suffers from a communist hangover. After last week's hostilities, Slovenes see only more evidence of wastage of their hard-earned dinars. "We bought them tanks and guns," says Franci Mavric, a taxicab driver in Sezana. "Now they want to kill us with them...
...republics, Slovenia seems the best poised to make a success of independence. Unlike Croatia, which contends with a militant Serbian minority, Slovenia is ethnically homogeneous. Internally it borders only Croatia. And Slovenia's economy shows a potential for robustness: although output shrank 9.6% last year, per capita production is on a par with the poorest members of the European Community. Still, foreign assistance is needed, so Slovenia had proceeded cautiously in order not to alienate potential donors...