Word: serbo-croat
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...they searched for Yousef after the 1993 bombing. A man named Khaled al-Shaikh Mohammad attended Chowan College in North Carolina in 1984, but the FBI isn't certain he is the man they want. In 1995 Mohammed was in Manila, where Yousef planned the so-called Bojinka (Serbo-Croat for explosion) plot to blow up airliners as they flew from Asia to the U.S. The scheme was uncovered when a fire broke out in an apartment doubling as a bomb factory. Yousef escaped, only to be captured in Pakistan a month later, but documents and computers left...
...real political courage." Surroi, a stocky, square-jawed intellectual who smokes a pipe and talks in a gravelly monotone, is the son of a former ambassador from Yugoslavia to Mexico and Spain. His global upbringing gave him fluency in Spanish and English in addition to his native Albanian and Serbo-Croat. He is popular with diplomats. "Unlike the other [ethnic Albanians], he speaks the language of foreign policy," says an observer...
...self-imposed constraints. He even boasts in the subtitle that he has written a novel "in 100,000 words," and although I doubt that the translator has followed Pavic's linguistic game that strictly, I do not doubt that Pavic himself wrote exactly 100,000 words in the Serbo-Croat. My rough estimation of the English edition comes...
...Mihajlov case came at a time when Tito is waging a strong campaign against liberals and is trying to reinforce party discipline after the Serbo-Croat dispute over language (TIME, April 7). In a speech last week in Belgrade, he singled out the press and radio as particularly plagued by "rotten liberalism," and went on to say: "The Communist Party is not a liberal organization in which everybody does what he wants. It is a Marxist organization that is not surpassed. The party continues to have the decisive role in our entire life...
Brought into the open, with the aid of recent documented evidence of conditions within Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 14), was the inability of the Cabinet to secure two important things: 1) a Serbo-Croat agreement about the future (i.e., Greater Serbia or Federated Yugoslavia); 2) an agreement between Mihailovich and Yugoslav Partisans to stop fighting each other and unite in fighting the Axis...