Word: yugoslavia
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...evil wizard who can be defeated only by finding his hidden source of power and destroying it. Modern Serbia has no shortage of wicked sorcerers who fit that archetype, and first among them is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In the late 1980s Milosevic loosed chaos upon the former Yugoslavia by conjuring up the ghosts of Balkan nationalism. The four years of war that followed dismembered the country, killed some 100,000 civilians and turned the President into an international pariah. Within Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last November, when the first sustained attempts to defy Milosevic began...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: As Belgrade police continued their violent crackdown on demonstrators Monday, opposition leader Vuk Draskovic declared an end to "Gandhi-style resistance," telling reporters that ?complete civil disobedience is the only way.? The most violent confrontation with police to date started on Sunday, when a standoff with riot police on a bridge degenerated into a widespread beating of protesters that continued through the night. Police chased students through the streets, into stores and university buildings, beating them and dragging some of them away for arrest. At least 80 were reported injured. Casualties ranged from pro-democratic leader Vesna Pesic...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: As protests continued peacefully in Belgrade, Socialists in another disputed Yugoslavian town made their defiance of democracy official -- and backed it up with violence. In Smederevska Palanka, 50 miles south of Belgrade, Socialists held the town council's inaugural session in a town hall ringed by police, who kept opposition deputies outside. After holding their own assembly in front of the building to the cheers of hundreds of supporters, the opposition members began a march through the center of town. They were met with the batons of riot police. "Without any provocation or warning, policemen, mostly local, clubbed...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Student protesters in Yugoslavia may have won a powerful ally: the army. A group of students emerged from a meeting with General Momcilo Perisic, head of the Yugoslav army, with guarantees that he would not interfere with their pro-democracy demonstrations. "We got firm assurances it will be so, and we are very pleased," said Dusan Vasiljevic, one of the students. If the army holds to its pledge, it represents a shift in the role that the military will play in Belgrade. In March of 1991, Serb President Slobodan Milosevic brought army tanks onto the streets of Belgrade...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Violence erupted on the streets of Belgrade Tuesday when pro-government supporters clashed with opponents of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic who had gathered for the 35th day to protest his invalidation of Serbia's local elections. The two rival groups pelted each other with mud, eggs and cabbages in Republic Square and attacked one another with lengths of pipe and clubs in the nearby streets. Hundreds of helmeted riot police eventually descended to break up skirmishes after the fighting escalated and one anti-government protester was shot in the head by a Milosevic supporter. Both sides held rallies...