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...over Serbian police during massacres in Kosovo prior to the NATO bombing. Now Lukic, among his new responsibilities, is obliged to arrest and extradite two relatives, Milan and Sredoje Lukic, wanted by the Hague for "willfully killing a significant number of Bosnian Muslim civilians" in the eastern town of Visegrad between May 1992 and October 1994. The men are accused of herding 135 women and children into two houses in June 1992 and burning them alive...
...membership in the alliance "would not be counter to Russian interests." That was taken as a green light for drawing much of the old East bloc into the alliance, and Western policy planners immediately went to work on mechanisms for membership. First to join would be the so-called Visegrad countries -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary -- probably by the end of the '90s. Then might come the Baltic states -- Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia -- and in the more distant future the others, possibly including parts of the former Soviet Union, including Russia itself. German Defense Minister Volker Ruhe enthusiastically...
...Queen's Fingers. Queen Elizabeth of Hungary, who probably owned the altarpiece, headed a gay and lively court in Visegrad. When, one day in 1329, a berserk courtier tried to assassinate her husband and children, the Queen helped fight off the assassin. In the defense she lost four fingers of her right hand-"that hand," as a monk-chronicler put it, "which she extended so many times to the poor and miserable." Beautiful, bountiful and (thanks largely to gold mines that she owned) enormously rich, the Queen became more devout than she had ever been before...
...bruised and put-upon Alihodja sounds the elegiac theme of Andrić's book. He watches gloomily as the bustling Austrians destroy the "sweet tranquillity" of Visegrad. They busily replace the outmoded fountains with new " 'unclean' water which passed through iron pipes so that it was not fit to drink"; they industriously built a railroad to the border that finally puts an end to the centuries-old traffic over the Drina Bridge. The book's last chapters take place in the first months of World War I, with Visegrad being shelled impartially by Austrian and Serbian...
Author Ivo Andrić, who was raised in the town of Visegrad he writes about so compassionately, is president of the Communist Federation of Writers of Yugoslavia. Before Tito, he was Yugoslavian minister in Berlin when the Nazis declared war on his homeland. This book, his acknowledged masterpiece, was written during World War II while Andrić lived in retirement in Nazi-occupied Belgrade. It is richly peopled and suffused with an ironic yet loving view of man. To Andrić there is always the hope that "if they destroy here, then somewhere is building. If God had abandoned this...