Word: yugoslavia
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...their first two games, a 6-4 win over Japan and a 6-6 tie with Yugoslavia. McManama and Hynes have scored four goals...
...phenomenon spans Europe from Britain, still grappling with Welsh and Scottish nationalism and the bloody war in Ulster, to the Soviet Union, troubled by ethnic unrest in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Yugoslavia, where uneasy equilibrium has been upset by a violent upsurge of Croatian nationalism, may be the only European nation whose existence as a single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain...
...sense, if indeed they ever did. The present map of Europe was carved out by warring armies-and postwar diplomats-only in the past century and a half. In 1830 there were no such countries as Greece, Belgium or Norway. Italy and Germany are scarcely a century old, while Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia date back only to 1918. Underlying Europe's somewhat artificial frontiers is a patchwork of ancient tribal and economic enclaves divided by geography, culture and what Italian Sociologist Francesco Ferrarotti describes as "the greatest single non-unifying factor in Europe, an excess of history...
...winter, such fashionable ski resorts as Gstaad, Chamonix and St. Moritz are booked solid; in summer, there is a mass migration from Europe's colder climes to such resorts as the Costa Brava and the Costa del Sol, as well as to (almost) unspoiled beaches on Sardinia and Yugoslavia's Adriatic coast...
...Vujovic and Hynes, academic reality brought about their departures. Vujovic, upon learning that his work in social sciences would not be acceptable in his native Yugoslavia, returned home to study law. The loss of Hynes, who left as a result of a plagiarized paper, will deprive the Crimson hockey team of its leading scorer (third all-time Harvard scorer) and an All-Ivy performer the last two years...