Word: yugoslavia
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...needed a place to brush the ferrous red dust off my jeans and shake the rumble of buses and trains out of my head. So I had a notion to wind up my travels through Greece and Yugoslavia at the village of Peania, outside Athens, where my grandmother lives. She had never made it as far as America and I felt pretty sure she would want to hear about what separated us. It wasn't like old times anymore, though: my grandmother had lapsed into a make-believe world, delicately and, to an outsider, bafflingly crocheted from frayed borders...
...York City on its way to Chicago when a band of passengers declared to the crew that they had other, meticulously crafted plans for the Boeing 727 and its 92 passengers and crew members. The plane was being skyjacked to advertise independence for Croatia, one of Yugoslavia's six republics and long a region of simmering separatism. Thus began a bizarre and improbable skyjacking, the first to succeed in the U.S. in nearly four years. It was the latest blow struck by Croatian separatists, who have been waging a campaign of assassination, bombing and blackmail for several years...
...been placed in a coin locker in the subway station at Grand Central Station in Manhattan. Along with it was a rambling 1,600-word "appeal to the American People" and a 2,500-word declaration of independence for the 4.4 million Croatians, who are a fifth of Yugoslavia's population. The terrorists demanded that these be published next day in five major newspapers (the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune). If this was done, said the conspirators, the hostages would be released. If it was not, another...
Flying at 29,000 ft. near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, last week, Lufthansa Pilot Josef Kröse chanced to glance above him. There he saw a scene that caused him to stare in disbelief. Four thousand feet overhead, at the same altitude, two other jetliners were closing fast from opposite directions. As Kröse looked on in horror, the planes smashed head-on into each other. They immediately fell from the sky in battered pieces of wreckage that landed twelve miles apart; at least one woman, working on her farm, was killed by the debris. After reassembling corpses, which were...
...Along with Cuba, the Communist states attending were Yugoslavia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and North Korea...