Word: yugoslavia
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...ETHNIC VENDETTAS IN YUGOSLAVIA'S SPLINTERing republics are sowing more death, this time in newly independent, Muslim-dominated Bosnia-Herzegovina. In | the small town of Bijeljina, where Serbs and Muslims have lived side by side for centuries, independence has bloodied the community, as irregular militias fight to remain linked with neighboring Serbia. After a Muslim grenade exploded in a Serb-owned cafe last week, killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will...
...German inclination is to savor success without dwelling on the past. Kohl, whose physical bulk and blunt manner seem to personify the big new Germany, called the Yugoslavia decision "a success for German foreign policy." Genscher flatly said, "We were right!" For their part, Germans feel frustrated when they are criticized for doing things that would seem benign if done by virtually any other country. It is time, say many Germans, to reap the benefits of 45 years of good conduct. What they want is responsibility commensurate with duty. "When it comes to paying, everybody says, 'Germans to the front...
...annual Pictures of the Year Competition, sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In an extraordinary display of strength, TIME photographers snapped up 18 awards -- including Magazine Photographer of the Year to Christopher Morris for his coverage of civil war in Yugoslavia and a first-place prize in the Magazine Picture Story category to Anthony Suau for his photo essay on the persecution of the Kurds...
...From there, their prescriptions for dealing with the post-cold war world depart radically. Bush regularly trumpets democracy's virtues, but his actions routinely serve order and stability. Following the gulf war, the U.S. virtually "owned" Kuwait, but Washington did little to ensure democracy's ascendancy in the emirate. Yugoslavia is disintegrating, but Bush has yet to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. The President clung to Mikhail Gorbachev to the end, and viewed Yeltsin as the problem rather than the solution even after Yeltsin won Russia's first democratic election. Clinton's views are exactly opposite. Democracy, he says, offers...
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...