Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communism crashes, nationalism seems to be replacing it as a menace. The Soviet Union has broken up into a clutch of quarrelsome new countries: yesterday's republics whose names we are still learning. They will be lucky if they are not torn apart by civil war like Yugoslavia. The Balkans are back with a vengeance...
...missions are more demanding and far riskier than any of the U.N.'s 23 previous peacekeeping assignments, nine of which are still ongoing. They are also far costlier. The 22,000-strong Cambodia enterprise carries a price tag of $1.9 billion over 15 months. In Yugoslavia, where hostilities continue to flare despite a formal cease-fire, the 14,000 troops begin with a one-year budget of $600 million, which is more likely to shrink than grow. But the commitment to protect Serbian enclaves in three war-ravaged areas of Croatia is open-ended, to allow for extensions...
...blue helmets actually ensure a durable peace in Yugoslavia and put Humpty-Dumpty together again in Cambodia? Or will they bog down guarding cease-fires indefinitely, as has happened in cases like Cyprus, where a U.N. team has been in place for 28 years without bringing the feuding sides any closer to reconciliation? Only within the diplomatic community is there guarded optimism that the absence of East-West tensions, coupled with the expressed will on all sides for the operations to proceed, will make for a successful outcome...
...YUGOSLAVIA. When U.N. troops begin their patrols in Croatia by the end of April, their first task will be to break the stubborn pattern of mutual recrimination that has characterized nine months of warfare. Since the neutral soldiers will carry only light arms, their success will depend largely on whether the Serbs and Croats can be made to fear the international opprobrium that would attend any attack on the blue helmets...
Against long odds, the blue helmets will try to pacify Cambodia and Yugoslavia...