Word: yugoslav
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Since Maastricht there has been a growing sense of irritation among Germany's neighbors on a variety of issues. The ink on the Maastricht agreement was hardly dry before Bonn pressured -- some say bullied -- the rest of the E.C. into recognizing the breakaway Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia. Most of the 12 preferred to wait to give E.C. negotiators a chance to implement a cease-fire, but Germany forced a decision by threatening to go it alone. Then, just before Christmas, the Bundesbank suddenly raised its interest rates, compelling most of the rest of Western Europe to follow...
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia--Airstrikes by Yugoslav jets killed at least six people in Bosnia-Hercegovina yesterday as the United States recognized the republic's independence along with that of Croatia and Slovenia...
Ethnic Serbs in northern Bosnia proclaimed their own state and said they intended to remain allied with Serbia, the largest republic in what was the Yugoslav federation. Two Serb members of Bosnia's seven-person presidency announced their resignations...
...recent months, the future status of the ethnically mixed republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina seemed more likely to be settled by bullets than by ballots. But in two days of polling last weekend, 64% of the registered voters in the central Yugoslav republic cast votes on whether to follow Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia into independence. Strong support among the republic's Muslims and Croats made for a virtually unanimous approval. Orthodox Serbs had been instructed to boycott the referendum. Even so, Western diplomats estimated that as many as 15% of Serbs also voted...
...ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy in the European Community's effort to broker an overall political settlement among the pieces of the shattered Yugoslav federation; and Cyrus Vance, who has labored for five months as the personal envoy of the Secretary- General to negotiate a cessation of hostilities durable enough to put the peacekeepers in place...