Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PART TO PLAY IN THE ethnic struggles going on in the states of the former Yugoslavia. These are localized clashes with no adverse effect beyond the states' boundaries. The U.N. should withdraw its forces without delay in order to regain the moral strength on which its effectiveness rests. SUMALYA CHAKRABORTY Rooty Hill, Australia...
...Bosnian Serb military machine has been forced into reverse, yielding large pieces of territory to a Croatian-Bosnian government offensive in the northwest of the country and easing the siege of Sarajevo under the pressure of a 14-day NATO bombing campaign. Whether the war in the former Yugoslavia is in its endgame or not, the dramatic shifts in the military and territorial balance should have a salutary effect on peace negotiations. The myth of invincibility, which the Bosnian Serbs wrapped around themselves--and which much of the outside world readily accepted--has faded, if not evaporated...
...anything, it is that lowering the barrier between church and state will lead not to some harmonious utopia, but to open strife and the oppression of minority viewpoints. This is the history that the Founders knew, and we have seen these lessons from the Crusades to modern-day Yugoslavia...
...idea was to bring the warring parties in Bosnia closer together, and with some overt stage management, the U.S. accomplished it--literally. When the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serb-led Yugoslavia arrived at the American mission in Geneva last Friday, they were ushered into a modest conference room and seated at a small round table that was purposely chosen by the Americans for the intimacy it would create. Things were so cramped that the ministers and their hosts sat almost knee to knee. After seven hours, they emerged with a one-page agreement on basic principles that...
Seles was raised in Yugoslavia but has become a naturalized and quite natural U.S. citizen. She treated New York as her own personal wonderland during her stay, catching the Broadway shows How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Show Boat, standing on the sidelines of the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants football game at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, doing a bit on the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, painting the nails on one hand five different colors and signing a poster for Cal Ripken Jr. ("What wonderful blue eyes," she said...