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...Year's Day cease-fire, negotiated in part by former President Jimmy Carter, looked increasingly fragile. More than 400 explosions were reported near the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, where Croatian Serbs and rebel Muslims battled Bosnian government forces. In Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, Serb troops refused to allow the U.N. to de-ice the airport runway, and in Tuzla, in north-central Bosnia, 1,000 peacekeepers were blockaded without food or heat by the government...
When Serbs fired two anti-tank missiles at a United Nations convoy near the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa last Monday, Ismail Hassain had just closed the hatch on his armored personnel carrier. The blast inflicted such massive injuries to his head that the Bangladeshi peacekeeper immediately lapsed into a deep coma. Serb forces refused permission for Hassain and four of his wounded U.N. comrades to be evacuated by helicopter, so the soldiers were forced to endure an eight-hour road trip to an American medical hospital in Zagreb. Hassain, who never awoke from his coma, died the next morning...
Under the hard-driving Abdic, Agrokomerc grew from a tiny milk-processing plant to a conglomerate with 13,500 employees, 1985 sales of $183 million, and products ranging from chicken parts to frozen dough. The rapid expansion transformed the firm's hometown, Velika Kladusa, from an impoverished peasant village to a prosperous community of whitewashed brick homes. But it turned out that Abdic had financed much of the expansion through a type of fraud that has become common in Yugoslavia's byzantine financial system...
...central bank, into providing guarantees for a steady flow of unsecured promissory notes issued by Agrokomerc. The guarantees made it possible for Agrokomerc to sell the notes for cash to other banks. Abdic plowed the proceeds into his ambitious development plans for the company and lavish community projects for Velika Kladusa, including an Olympic-size swimming pool...
...Estate. In Velika Plana, Yugoslavia, a tombstone in the village cemetery bears the inscription: "Here rests Zdravko Paunovic with his first wife Stanojka. The tombstone is erected by his third wife Dolka, from the money of his second wife, Zivkat...