Word: slobo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every uprising knows its demons on a first-name basis. The French railed at Louis and Marie Antoinette; the Russians at Nicholas and Alexandra; the Filipinos at Ferdinand and Imelda; the Romanians at Nicolae and Elena. Now, in Serbia, the targets are Slobo and Mira, the nicknames of President Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mirjana Markovic. So renowned is the President's wife--never call her the First Lady to her face--that she is being pilloried in her own right by the protesters in Belgrade...
...Serbia's balloting was an unmistakable act of self-determination: despite charges of "Stalinist-style propaganda" and spot vote rigging, Milosevic's landslide appeared to be genuine. So it was democracy in one sense. Liberal, however, it was not. "I'm for Slobo because he's for Serbia," said a Belgrade voter exultantly, summing up the ethnic antipathies...