Word: yugoslavia
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...century, national minorities are everywhere. By some estimates, several hundred thousand ethnic Germans are still in Poland and 200,000 in Rumania. More than a million Poles find themselves inside the Soviet Union. About 1.7 million Hungarians live in Rumania, and a few hundred thousand more in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. There are 2 million Rumanians in Soviet Moldavia and an unknown number in the Ukraine...
...Yugoslavia, composed entirely of ethnic minorities, broke from Moscow in 1948 but was held tightly together by its forceful first President, Josip Broz Tito. Since his death in 1980, ties among the country's six republics and two autonomous regions have loosened, and an ambitious Serbian nationalist, Slobodan Milosevic, has become wildly popular among his fellow Serbs. But his ) strident chauvinism and the rest of the federation's fears of the Serbs, who account for more than 8 million of Yugoslavia's 24 million people, could be pushing the country toward disintegration. Milosevic has reasserted Serbian control over Kosovo...
...been so confident of his power: only a week earlier, he had ordered his security forces to fire on demonstrators in the city of Timisoara, near the border with Yugoslavia, as he flew off for an official visit to Iran. Now, under arrest and facing a military tribunal, he did not seem to understand or accept his defeat. He raged at his judges, who were not shown on the tape, insisted that he would answer only to the "working class" and refused to address the prosecutor's charges that he had destroyed Rumania. Within a bare two hours, the Ceausescus...
...great ideological divide of the Iron Curtain is giving way to messier divisions among nation-states and nationalities within states. NATO is simply not constituted or equipped to deal with trouble between two highly uncomradely Warsaw Pact members, Hungary and Rumania, or between two feuding republics of nonaligned Yugoslavia, Serbia and Slovenia. NATO should be maintained during a period of transition, as long as it is understood to be playing that temporary role. To his credit, and the Administration's, James Baker, in a thoughtful and farsighted speech earlier this month in West Berlin, seemed to be inviting Western statesmen...
...Timisoara, demonstrators shouting "Give us our dead!" filled the city's bloodstained streets. As word of the killing spread, marchers turned out in towns throughout the country. Because of the government's total control of travel and communications, rumors often replaced information. East European news agencies such as Yugoslavia's Tanjug and, in the new world of glasnost, even Moscow's TASS and East Germany's ADN, became important sources of news. They reported that Rumanian army troops had joined in some of the protests, that more soldiers had been executed by the Securitate for refusing to fire into crowds...