Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While economists believe Collor's program is well reasoned, it has angered Big Business, alienated much of the middle class and invited the risk of a major recession. -- Old demons vs. new democracy could re-Balkanize Yugoslavia...
Nowhere are destabilizing and potentially disruptive forces more clearly displayed than in Yugoslavia, the fragile coalition of six republics and two semi-autonomous provinces. Over the past three months, the northern republics of Slovenia and Croatia have held elections, ejecting incumbent communist governments and staking out positions that fall just short of independence. Slovenia's new government has served notice that it will declare itself independent if the other states do not accept its demands to turn Yugoslavia into a grouping of sovereign republics...
...summer, Sharis and Bernstein made the U.S. national team and went to Bled, Yugoslavia, where the boat narrowly missed out on a bronze medal by less than a bow ball...
...Continent's poorest and most backward country, Albania is a wedge of Balkan territory on the southern Adriatic coast between Yugoslavia and Greece. An agrarian land where workers earn an average wage of $85 a month, the country is as rigid economically as it is politically. Albania even broke relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 and China in 1978 after those powers experimented with early liberalization programs. Since he succeeded the late dictator Enver Hohxa in 1985, President Ramiz Alia, 65, has only gradually modified the most egregious of his predecessor's restrictive policies...
...dilemma. On the one hand, only democratization can provide the basis for humane, modern political life. On the other hand, democracy by itself cannot keep a multi-national federation together. Quite the contrary: partly because of democratization, centrifugal forces are gathering momentum. As the attempts to democratize post-Tito Yugoslavia have shown, a more powerful antidote is needed to fight the virus of nationalism...