Word: yugoslavia
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...hitherto complacent nation that the formerly communist region is an economic and social disaster zone that confronts all Germans with problems graver than anyone imagined. The discontented have found an easy scapegoat in the 1.4 million refugees from as far away as Afghanistan and as near as Yugoslavia, most of whom have flooded into the country during the past three years. Shut out of much of the rest of the Continent, they gravitate to Germany because its constitution guarantees asylum to all victims of political persecution. Although less than 5% eventually win the right to remain permanently, a laborious processing...
...enormously popular play, it has been performed for audiences across the 50 states and in numerous nations worldwide, from Mexico to Yugoslavia to Saudi Arabia...
...lasts. Beneath the surface stability lie fierce passions and unrest that could explode and return the world to the tense place it has been for the last 45 years. Internal changes in Russia or China could jerk the world back into turmoil overnight. Situations in other areas, such as Yugoslavia, could more slowly drag nearby countries into...
...while his minority status makes Mansfield more outspoken, it could stifle the voices of other conservative faculty members. Cooper says that in a conversation with a government professor, he lamented that the U.S. had missed an opportunity by failing to take military action against Yugoslavia...
BUSH ADMINISTRATION EXPERTS FEAR THAT A WIDER WAR could erupt at any time in the former Yugoslavia. But COLIN POWELL, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has forbidden his generals to prepare any U.S. contingency plans. Without the plans, he figures, there can be no U.S. involvement...