Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company in letting bids; they say they were just trying to act with dispatch. Budgets languish in a labyrinth of competing bureaucracies, and once expenditures are approved, the U.N. rarely receives more than 30% of peacekeeping assessments from member states within six months of fielding an operation. When the Yugoslav mission expanded to cover all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the U.N. was under such financial pressure that it could not pay for the quick deployment of troops from Western Europe. The contingents had to cover their own expenses...
...represents the work of 36 photographers from 12 countries, including many whose pictures have appeared in our pages. Chosen as the emblem of the exhibit is a photo of a woman grieving at the funeral of her husband, a Croatian policeman killed in an ambush by Serbs of the Yugoslav National Army forces. It was taken by TIME's Christopher Morris, who has covered the war since its start and has provided some of its most powerful images. After the show closes in New York City on Oct. 2, it will tour the U.S., including stops in Los Angeles, Chicago...
...thin ray of hope for peace glowed as Bosnia's beleaguered Muslims signed separate cease-fire agreements with Croatia and with the Bosnian Serbs. If the truces hold, all three parties may soon be signing a peace accord that would partition the former Yugoslav republic into a confederation of three ethnic zones. The agreement, if ratified, would allow any of the three enclaves to withdraw from the confederation after two years...
...Maid Servant and Goya's Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate. In one of the largest art heists of recent years, the paintings were stolen seven years ago from Russborough House, the Dublin-area home of the late Sir Alfred Beit, a private , collector. Three Irishmen and a Yugoslav were caught near Antwerp transporting the paintings, along with six other stolen works, in two rented cars...
Like George Kenney, who resigned as the State Department's Yugoslav affairs officer in August 1992 to protest George Bush's supine Bosnia policy, Harris could not stomach Clinton's inaction "against genocide and the Serbs who perpetrate it." Now that the U.S. is ready to send in the Air Force, it would seem an odd time for a dramatic stand. But not to Harris, who considers the Administration's role a tawdry sellout...