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...Olympics, it was a foregone conclusion that the U.S. would run away with the top spot. This year's collection of NBA multimillionaires hasn't blown away or awed the opposition like the original group. But nonetheless, no team has seriously threatened the Dream Team, and don't expect Yugoslavia to change that. Like the U.S., Yugoslavia goes into the gold medal match undefeated. Unlike the Dream Team's 12 NBA all-stars , the Yugoslavian team has just three NBA players, none of whom have played in an all-star game. Charlotte's Vlade Divac leads Yugoslavia, along with Toronto...
...country." Tudjman said afterward: "We agreed on normalization of all issues and all open problems." That may mean some progress was made toward resolving border disputes between the two nations, as well as the future of Eastern Slavonia, a region of Croatia that resisted secession from Serbia-dominated Yugoslavia. Croatia only last year put down a rebellion by the local Serb population, and the conflict drove many Croatian Serbs into Serbia and Montenegro. Scot Woods
...country." Tudjman said afterward: "We agreed on normalization of all issues and all open problems." That may mean some progress was made toward resolving border disputes between the two nations, as well as the future of Eastern Slavonia, a region of Croatia that resisted secession from Serbia-dominated Yugoslavia. Croatia only last year put down a rebellion by the local Serb population, and the conflict drove many Croatian Serbs into Serbia and Montenegro. Scot Woods
...first day of competition with this banner headline: NO GOLD FOR US. The message was that there was something ignoble about the two silvers and the bronze that U.S. athletes won that day, and by extension the dross won by athletes from other nations. Aleksandra Ivosev of Yugoslavia certainly appreciated the bronze medal she won for the women's 10-m air rifle. Ivosev has a training problem, which would be laughably ironic if it weren't sadly so: "Because of war," she said, "we couldn't find a good location to practice...
ALEXANDRA STIGLMAYER, a Croat native who works in TIME's Central Europe bureau, has a knack for being in the right place at the right reportorial time. For five years her remarkable contributions from the former Yugoslavia have added an enriching dimension to TIME's coverage of the conflagration; this week's story on Bosnian ex-President Radovan Karadzic--which charts his path from farm boy to psychiatrist to indicted war criminal--is no exception. "The thing I admire most about Alexandra," says Richard Hornik, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents, "is that she hates not getting the real story...