Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question. But an event that has been unfolding thousands of miles from Cambridge is anything but usual. Atrocities akin to those committed by the Nazis and by the Khmer Rouge occur every day in the civil war pitting Serbs, Croats and Muslims against one another in what was once Yugoslavia...
...would welcome any attempts by Harvard students to form a similar organization to support the Bosnians. Such a group is needed now to organize the campus effort to help those facing death in Bosnia and other regions of the former Yugoslavia. In the meantime, here's what you can do--send money earmarked for Bosnian relief efforts to the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel or the Harvard Islamic Society...
...Montenegro. By the end of the year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million on ostensibly temporary layoffs and 1.1 million pensioners. Between September and October alone in the two remaining republics of the former Yugoslavia, industrial output dropped one-quarter. Last week the Crvena Zastava industrial works in Kragujevac closed down the assembly lines for the Yugo automobile; the only production unit still functioning makes weapons...
...SPITE OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IMPOSED UPON Yugoslavia on May 30, massive smuggling of gasoline keeps traffic heavy on the streets of Belgrade. Though the economy is a shambles, the regime of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has still not been brought to its knees. And the war rages...
Instead of lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, as Arab countries have urged, the United Nations decided to administer a stiffer dose of the same medicine. The Security Council plugged the loopholes in its leaky sanctions by banning shipments through Yugoslavia of strategic goods such as petroleum products, coal, steel and chemicals, which until now have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members (including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping...