Word: slivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gross," says Chad White Face, 11, as he forces down a warm sliver...
Territory. The thorniest issue of all--and an area where remarkable progress has been made. The first break came when Tudjman and Milosevic agreed that control over Eastern Slavonia, the sliver of Croatia ruled by rebel Serbs since 1991, would revert to Zagreb's control in a year or, under certain conditions, two. That was followed by a compromise on the cornerstone issue: Sarajevo. It will remain, at least in name, an "undivided city'' (as the Muslims demand), but it will be partitioned into nine self-governing ethnic zones. Each zone can have its own official language, its own education...
...session, Christopher visited the private quarters of each to chide them about actions their countries might take that could derail the talks. He warned Tudjman not to undercut Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation and told him point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic that his failure to do anything about ongoing atrocities by his proxies, the Bosnian Serbs, was unacceptable...
Tudjman: "His major objective is to recover the last sliver of his land not under his control, eastern Slavonia. He probably wants to cleanse his land of non-Croats as well. He wants to control, at a distance, the Croatian parts of Bosnia...
Deservedly so. His Chili Palmer is a Miami loan shark, the kind of good fellow who can shatter his competitor's nose and with a casually aimed shot nip a sliver off his scalp, in the process neither raising his voice nor losing his shy little smile. He's a much neater operative than Pulp's Vinnie. And his drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth...