Word: yugoslavia
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...made new demands on the U.S., insisting that American troops remain in Somalia until they have disarmed the warring clans and restored some central authority. And in Brussels, the NATO allies are looking once again at the possibility of using armed force against Serbian aggressors in the remnants of Yugoslavia...
...Some experts interpret going into Somalia as a test that, if it succeeds, might encourage further involvement in the jigsaw of republics that used to make up Yugoslavia. The difficulty of ignoring the merits of Bosnia's claim to help apparently led Washington to plan a call this week for armed enforcement of a much violated two-month-old ban on military flights over the Balkan republic. Others counter that helping Somalia will ease the pressure to intervene in the Balkans by proving the U.S. is not stymied everywhere...
Elie Wiesel arranged this visit to parts of what used to be Yugoslavia. He tells a press conference later that Sarajevo looks to him like "a ghost city, a tragedy formed into a city, like a city in Germany in 1945." He says, "I saw a cat that was a ruin of a cat. I saw a dog that was a ghost of a dog." He says, "I feel the time has come to weep...
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN EVERY HICCUP FROM MOSCOW made headlines around the world. With the end of the cold war, newspapers and television have shifted | their attention to other areas -- from a riveting U.S. election to the tragedies in Yugoslavia and Somalia. Yet the tumultuous transformation of the former Soviet Union remains one of the biggest stories of the decade, and that's why we've devoted the entire main section of this week's issue to a special report on the New Russia. "The former Soviet Union's fate is still critically important to America and the rest...
...INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY dithered on the margins of the crisis in Yugoslavia, the anguish continued in beleaguered Bosnia-Herzegovina. An aid convoy bound for the town of Srebenica, where some 80,000 Muslims have been trapped by fighting for months, was blocked at the Serbian border for days by Serb militiamen and angry, jeering civilians. A convoy to Goradze was delayed after an escorting personnel carrier hit a mine...