Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next week several hundred blue-helmeted United Nations troops are due to arrive in Yugoslavia. They are the vanguard of 14,000 soldiers from 30 countries, the first U.N. peacekeeping force ever deployed in Europe. Their mandate is to disarm the warring militias, monitor the withdrawal of the Serbian-dominated federal army from Croatia and protect the Serb minority in the breakaway republic...
...disintegration of Yugoslavia has already cost at least 6,000 lives, driven 650,000 people out of their homes and thwarted 14 cease-fires. No. 15 has been in effect since Jan. 3. Last week Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic said, "The conditions now exist for a peaceful and democratic solution." That is thanks largely to four outsiders: Javier Perez de Cuellar, the former U.N. Secretary-General, who laid the 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...
...even netted a lucrative contract with Germany's Adidas, which will supply most of the team's competition uniforms. Outfits for the ceremonies as well as daywear and much of the equipment will be supplied by Goma, a Yugoslav textile firm. There is some irony in that, since Yugoslavia has split apart in a bloody civil war. Its former republics of Croatia and Slovenia (home of the country's best Alpine skiers) will be participating separately...
After studying his techniques, students who do well in Fisher's class can often watch their own suggestions in action. In the past, student written solutions for real-life conflicts have been considered by the governments of Yugoslavia, Germany and the United States...
...poised to dispatch a peacekeeping force of 10,000 to Yugoslavia. An additional 1,000 blue helmets are on their way to El Salvador to monitor the end of that country's 12-year civil war. A U.N. mission is organizing a referendum for the people of the Western Sahara to determine whether they want to be independent or part of Morocco. And an advance team is preparing to take over the administration of an entire country, Cambodia, until it can elect a new government in 1993. Meanwhile, the U.N. continues to grapple with a host of crises that know...