Word: serbo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left, nobody would take care of [the civilians]," he says. He has been stationed at the airport, but is happy that he will soon be assigned to a nearby suburb, where he will have more contact with the locals. Since his father is from Croatia, Itric knows some Serbo-Croatian and can communicate with them. "I saw this country three years ago, peaceful and united, and I wanted to come back and see what it is like now," Itric says. "If I could, I would stay with the U.N. here forever." The way things are going, he just...
...Tudjman was under the impression that he had a friend in the West, and that we would come in if things fell apart," says a State Department official. Holbrooke, the official says, "let him know that the West is not going to get involved if events lead to a Serbo-Croatian war. If it got really nasty, we would implement sanctions." But until a real settlement can be found, the abyss will always be there...
...more chain-smoking attendants than even the Texan rock-star aspirant seated across the green room. While there is no faux blond manager in black crochet at the young Bosnian girl's disposal, her entourage is a solicitous group that includes her lawyer father and chemist mother, their Serbo-Croatian translator, a publicist and a representative from Zlata's French publisher, whose apparent purpose is to help make the Filipovics' stay more enjoyable by suggesting they go see The Phantom of the Opera or -- less likely -- Schindler's List...
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