Word: yugoslavia
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...Although chess is thriving where I live, I have noticed that many talented young players have never heard of Fischer, and those who have do not view him positively. It is sad that he was never pardoned for violating a U.S. ban by playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia. He was a chess champion who was not welcome in his own country. I think that may be partly to blame for his mental breakdown. He spent so much of his life as a fugitive - simply for playing a game of chess. Lauren Kuckelman, REEDLEY, CALIF...
...great Bobby Fischer [Feb. 4]. Chess is thriving where I live, but many talented young players have never heard of Fischer, and those who have do not view him positively. It is sad that he was never pardoned for violating a U.S. ban by playing a 1992 match in Yugoslavia. He was a chess champion who was not welcome in his own country. I think that may be partly to blame for his mental breakdown. He spent so much of his life as a fugitive-simply for playing a game of chess. Lauren Kuckelman, Reedley, California...
...weeks. In Serbia, however, frustration over losing 15% of its territory stirred anti-Western sentiments, boosting Nikolic's chances in the race. A representative of the Serbian Radical Party, whose leader Vojislav Seselj is currently on trial in The Hague for war crimes committed during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990's, Nikolic said that he would freeze Serbia's relations with the E.U. and allow Russia to build military bases in the country in the event of his election...
...with a view to heading off the slide into catastrophe. Still, there are clear signs that the tribal conflict is now taking an increasingly organized form, which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer characterized as "clear ethnic cleansing." As in the conflicts in what was once Yugoslavia, the purpose of the increasingly organized mobs killing and threatening members of other tribes was to force all members of that tribe to leave an area. And it may take a lot more than agreement among rival political parties to bring such a conflict under control...
...legal and illegal art markets are flooded with icons and artifacts that were stolen from holy sites in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. But the targeting of Christian art in Europe is relatively new, dating back only a few decades. Conflicts in Cyprus in the '70s, and in Yugoslavia in the '90s, along with the breakup of the Soviet Union, provided a fertile environment for widespread looting of religious art and icons, which have continued to flood the black market. At the same time, cheaper security systems have made it harder to steal from museums, galleries and homes...