Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be a journalist in Bosnia, having an armored car is helpful. In 1993 TIME equipped its team of reporters covering the conflict in the former Yugoslavia with a reinforced white Chevy pickup truck. This hard-shelled vehicle showed its mettle during the bombardment of Sarajevo two weeks ago. Christopher Morris, TIME's chief photographer in the region, drove it near the city's Jewish cemetery, an area that had come under heavy attack from Bosnian Serbs. He left the truck to take some pictures, and soon after, it was strafed by bullets and shrapnel -- none of which penetrated...
...never did go to Yugoslavia because the country fell apart, but we stayed friends," said Coleman...
...cycling partners met through an advertisement Coleman had placed in a national biking magazine in 1987 looking for a companion for a bicycle tour of Yugoslavia,"taking time to smell the roses...
...latest Contact Group peace plan, for example, or even to open negotiations about that plan with the Bosnian government -- might well take a long and intense bombing campaign for which there seems to be no stomach in either the U.S. or Europe. Says Warren Zimmerman, former U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia: "Any fool would know the Serbs were going to react the way they have. There's only one response to that, which is to hit them again, and possibly again and again, even at the risk of some harm to the hostages. If that doesn't happen...
...judge from the rash of movies about young people that broke out at this year's Cannes Film Festival. While most of the serious award contenders were meditations on 20th century history, like Theo Angelopoulos' majestic Ulysses' Gaze and Kamir Kusturica's Underground (both set in war-torn Yugoslavia), the main trend was Sociopath Cinema. The parade of teen angst-athons was led by the U.S. film Kids...