Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promises a 60 Minutes-style expose on purse snatching and child exploitation in the tourist capitals of Europe. And is anyone in a hurry to see a 2-hr. 22-min. film in Romany with English subtitles? As it happens, the movie does take time for side trips from Yugoslavia to Italy, to show young Gypsies stealing and pimping at their bosses' stern whims. But its heart is in a Serbian village of Gypsies, where outcasts find a family and fevered dreams are as tangible and intimate as a relative come to sleep in the crowded shack called home...
...free markets will make things even worse for at least a while. Poland's courageous total-immersion reform plan, begun Jan. 1, is expected to reduce workers' wages by 20% from their already desperate levels. Poland begins this experiment owing $40 billion to the West from the disastrous 1970s. Yugoslavia, Hungary and East Germany owe about $20 billion apiece...
...countries where communism was introduced after a revolution, like the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the process of change is slower because a relatively strong ruling class was formed from authentic national sources. The situation is quite the opposite in countries where communism was introduced after a Soviet invasion. Change is much faster and easier in those countries because the weakening of the system in the Soviet Union changed the international situation...
...after day, police and irate ethnic Albanians clashed in Yugoslavia's southern Kosovo province as the demonstrators protested their domination by the Serbian republic, of which Kosovo is a part. By the end of last week at least 20 people were dead, and the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti warned, "Kosovo is a step away from civil...
...YUGOSLAVIA...