Word: yugoslavia
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...coming out of newly opened East bloc archives. He reveals, for example, that in spite of their threats and military maneuvers, Brezhnev and Co. never intended to invade Poland, short of an anticommunist rebellion. Dobbs is always clear and persuasive, but he tries so hard to be everywhere--Poland, Yugoslavia, China, Russia--and to explain everything, that his survey ends up feeling disappointingly two-dimensional...
...Croatian prison officials for a hushed United Nations tribunal. The trial of three Muslims and one Croat is the first collective war crimes trial since the end of World War II and the first to judge rape as a war crime. Seventy-six witnesses will make the trip from Yugoslavia to testify before the U.N. tribunal about conditions in the Celebici concentration camp, set up by Muslim authorities at the beginning of the Bosnian war as a detention center for Serb prisoners. Fourteen inmates are thought to have died in the camp, including one man who had a Muslim party...
Pascagoula was settled over the years by immigrants from France and Spain, Lebanon and Yugoslavia--but by very few slaves. In Lott's youth, as now, blacks numbered only about 18% of the area's population, and whites did not feel as threatened as they did in the black-majority counties of the Mississippi Delta. While most neighborhoods were segregated, the races mixed easily on the streets and in factories, where jobs were available to everyone...
...Radmila Jovanovic, a 71-year-old retired engineer, on the recent return to civility in Belgrade, Yugoslavia...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Perhaps scenting blood in President Milosevic's recent concessions, protesters in Belgrade are vowing to press on. "It's only the first round," opposition leader Vesna Pesic told demonstrators who returned to the streets for a 79th straight day of protests. "We have to change the entire system, step by step, until liberty. We demand economic reform, we demand freedom, we want to live in dignity." Milosevic's bill ceding the 14 election victories to the opposition has been submitted to parliament. And that, clearly, is where those in power would prefer for the matter to be addressed...