Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...already outlived the average Russian male by seven years, Yeltsin's condition can be considered serious," says TIME's Sally Donnelly in Moscow. "It is unknown how long he will remain in the hospital, although a week is the common period. However, the three presidents from the former Yugoslavia are due in town on Tuesday, so unless his condition is life-threatening, Yeltsin will probably show...
Stephanopoulos expressed dismay at the break-up of Yugoslavia, a Balkan state, but emphasized that Greece does not want to become involved in the Bosnian conflict...
...WORLD HAS SEEN IT ALL BEFORE: a cease-fire is signed, the guns fall silent, hopes rise. Then somewhere in Bosnia a sniper's bullet or a mortar round or a tank attack sheds blood, and war begins again. Countless times since the start of the wars of Yugoslavia in 1991, a truce has been declared. Each time it has collapsed. Last week U.S. diplomats tried again, negotiating a cessation of hostilities that could take effect as early as Tuesday. But in contrast to the many failures of the past, there is a chance this one could last, clearing...
Today, The U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt glides stealthily in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of what once was Yugoslavia. Ironically, the motto of the Western powers for most of the Bosnian conflict has been to "Speak hypocritically and thwack yourself with a small twig." Western leaders regularly repeat their mantra of how "Bosnia was a great failure of Western leadership," as if they are speaking of some other Western leaders and that with the admission of guilt all their sins are absolved...
Bosnia, Croatia and the Serb-dominated Yugoslavia endorsed a preliminary plan for a new government of Bosnia, but even as the foreign ministers of the warring parties met at the U.N., their soldiers went on fighting. The leaders agreed on a 12-paragraph "statement of principles" providing for a group national presidency, a parliament, a constitutional court and "free, democratic elections." But the critical issue for any Bosnian peace, the disposition of territory, was not addressed. Even as the diplomats talked, the Bosnian army continued its offensive to retake sections of northwestern Bosnia captured by the Serbs...