Word: yugoslavia
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...however, spells out any new principles for deciding exactly when intervention is justified. Threats to world stability may come increasingly from eruptions in one nation that send floods of refugees across borders and upset a regional or international balance of power. The next such explosion might come in Yugoslavia; further -- but perhaps not much further -- down the road looms the specter of a bloody dissolution of the Soviet Union...
...Labor of Albania seemed the best bet. Since coming to power in 1944, Albania's communists have gone to great lengths to avoid all compromising entanglements with the outside world. Enver Hoxha, socialist Albania's founder, rejected all contact with the West and broke ranks with communist allies in Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and China when they deviated from strict orthodoxy...
...Serbia, Yugoslavia's largest republic, has spent months poised on the brink of conflict with neighboring Croatia on behalf of the ethnic Serbs living there. But last week, the most harrowing for Yugoslavia since the end of World War II, Serbia was fighting battles entirely within its own borders. In a scenario that seems to have become a rite of passage in the new Europe, the people of the republic were pitted against an autocratic regime, Serbia's communist government. The showdown came in the capital, Belgrade, where anticommunist demonstrations paralyzed the city center for three tense days and nights...
...chief political casualties from the week's ferment were Yugoslavia's two senior Serbs. On Friday, Borisav Jovic, the Serbian leader of Yugoslavia's eight-man presidency, resigned after a majority of his colleagues from the country's five other republics rejected an army proposal to declare a national state of emergency. The next day, two more presidency members who supported Jovic followed suit. Voicing fears that the country was headed inexorably toward civil war, Jovic said he was "not ready to go along with such decisions that are leading to the breakup of the country." For his part, Serbian...
Such questions are moot, however, if the army decides to take matters into its own hands. The spate of presidential resignations last week left Yugoslavia in confusion over just what civilian authority ultimately commands the military. If the answer turns out to be Milosevic and the army leaders, the country could sink into an even grimmer cycle of violence...