Word: yugoslavia
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While Serbs began to withdraw from their positions above the battered Bosnian city of Sarajevo this weekend, nearly 2,000 college students gathered in Boston hotel conference rooms to debate solutions to world problems, including the civil war in the former Yugoslavia...
...speech, Fine told a story of how a wealthy philanthropist friend, moved by the film "Schindler's List," had called on Fine to suggest means to help the victims of the former Yugoslavia's civil...
Both speakers compared the ethnic cleansing that has occurred in Bosnia over the last two years to the Holocaust, and they emphasized the imminent need to stop the violence in theformer Yugoslavia...
...fight; they are trained in the ways of combat every day. These days, soldiers do not fight only for their own country. The United States military has brought its influence to bear on behalf of persecuted peoples all over the world. Conflicts like the war in the former Yugoslavia now constitute the battlegrounds for the world's major armies...
...mortar shell that slammed into Sarajevo's main downtown marketplace last week was timed to kill a maximum number of people: Saturday morning, the peak shopping period. In the worst single incident since violence broke out in the former Yugoslavia, at least 66 people were killed and 200 injured. Only the day before, 10 people died in a shelling in another part of the city. After Saturday's attack, newly installed U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry reiterated President Clinton's statement that the U.S. would not "permit the strangulation of Sarajevo...