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Half-blind, senile, and emaciated from heart disease, Andrija Artukovic seemed oblivious as U.S. marshals bundled him aboard a JAT airlines flight to Yugoslavia last week. Only after staring hard at an illuminated sign in the plane that read FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT in Serbo-Croatian did Artukovic, 86, speak. Said he: "Now I know where I'm going." Indeed, his destination was a long-delayed date with justice. As Interior Minister in the puppet Nazi state of Croatia during World War II, Artukovic was known as the Butcher of the Balkans and held responsible for the murder...
...ENTIRE ensemble are very much at ease in their roles, so much so that one would be surprised to learn that they had ever left the Balkan countryside in their lives. In fact, all of the dialogue is in Serbo-Croatian. The only time the subtitles present a problem to the unattentive viewer is at the film's beginning, when it is difficult to discern which characters are central, and which characters are central, and which are only of brief importance. This problem is attributable to the script, however, and is a minor flaw in an otherwise excellent screenplay...
...were rewarded with candy bars. Most of the snowplows in Yugoslavia, and a few from Austria, are in Sarajevo. The rest of the country must be closed. The duty-free shop at the press center is open, but the saleswomen are fed up with stir-crazy writers. In both Serbo-Croatian and English, a warning sign reads: MARRIED. -By Tom Callahan. Reported by John Moody, B.J. Phillips and William Rademaekers/Sarajevo
...weeks before the first puck is to drop in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (for the first of six hockey games to be played Feb. 7, the day before the opening ceremonies), the supply of slivovitz, a high-octane schnapps made from plums, is still holding out. Zivjeli! ("Bottoms up!" in Serbo-Croatian). All reserves may be needed, however, before the closing ceremony, Feb. 19. The proud and fiery Yugoslavs have quelled their tendency to airy improvisation, and they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This is a lot higher...
...million of the $140 million budgeted to put on the Games, which is what ABC did?but the elevator that was supposed to reach them was not working. It was almost impossible to make a transatlantic phone call unless you could explain your needs in Serbo-Croatian. Hotel cashiers prudently refused to accept payment in anything but dinars...