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...words proved prophetic. On Tuesday each republic proclaimed its sovereignty. The next day tank columns moved toward border crossings, and the 20,000 federal troops in Slovenia were placed on combat alert. In the early-morning hours of Thursday, 40 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers rolled toward the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to secure the republic's main airport, and traded artillery and antitank fire with small pockets of Slovenian defense forces. The airport was hit by air-to-ground missiles -- one of the few aerial bombardments on the European continent since World...
...Friday afternoon, the army claimed to have secured all 27 border posts, but the Slovenian government insisted that it still controlled a number of crossings. The high command in Belgrade told Slovenian defense minister Janez Jansa that since its objectives had been met, all action would cease. The cease-fire was supposed to go into effect at 9 p.m., but fighting continued well after the deadline, raising disturbing questions about who was in control. And who in Belgrade had ordered the army to attack? Markovic had earlier vowed to use only "legal measures," not force, to keep Slovenia within...
...they could resume negotiations -- or if the army's tactics would provoke more belligerence from Slovenia. Early Saturday each side agreed to cease-fire terms under which the army would withdraw its troops and Slovenia would suspend claims to sovereignty. But the arrangement seems tenuous at best. The Slovenian government stated that it had agreed only to hold off for three months on further steps toward independence. Said Slovenian foreign minister Dimitrij Rupel: "What we've done, we shall keep." After the army issued another harsh threat of "decisive military action," the Slovenian parliament voted to affirm its independence stand...
...northern Yugoslav republic of Slovenia, fearful of rising Serbian hegemony, voted in September to confirm its right to secede. By banning a rally of Serbs in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana last month, the province's Communist leader, Milan Kucan, has become a local hero. Communist Party officials from around the country began meeting last weekend in Belgrade to discuss and possibly approve the creation of a multiparty system for April elections and an end to the Communist monopoly on power. Opponents of the plan predicted it would produce parties that would foster local nationalism and trigger the breakup...
...when the boatloads of newcomers reached their peak, some 1,300 foreign- language newspapers and magazines were being published in the U.S. New York City alone boasted a cacophony of 32 dailies, including ten in German, five in Yiddish, two in Bohemian and one each in Croatian, Slovakian and Slovenian...