Word: yugoslavian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear of future atrocities and the success of the ad hoc war crimes tribunals created to deal with Yugoslavian and Rwandan criminals have paved the way for a conference in Rome this summer, according to Scheffer...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: As protests continued peacefully in Belgrade, Socialists in another disputed Yugoslavian town made their defiance of democracy official -- and backed it up with violence. In Smederevska Palanka, 50 miles south of Belgrade, Socialists held the town council's inaugural session in a town hall ringed by police, who kept opposition deputies outside. After holding their own assembly in front of the building to the cheers of hundreds of supporters, the opposition members began a march through the center of town. They were met with the batons of riot police. "Without any provocation or warning, policemen, mostly local, clubbed...
...blown away or awed the opposition like the original group. But nonetheless, no team has seriously threatened the Dream Team, and don't expect Yugoslavia to change that. Like the U.S., Yugoslavia goes into the gold medal match undefeated. Unlike the Dream Team's 12 NBA all-stars , the Yugoslavian team has just three NBA players, none of whom have played in an all-star game. Charlotte's Vlade Divac leads Yugoslavia, along with Toronto's Zan Tabac and Miami's Sasha Daniliovic. In other events Saturday, Andre Agassi, trying to bounce back from disappointing early losses at the French...
...Bosnian conflict has thrown mediators -- working for months to resolve the conflict -- for a loop. NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes quickly expressed outrage, but it's the U.N. that has received the biggest slight in the effort, Angelo says. U.N. officials tell Angelo that Yasushi Akashi, U.N. chief of Yugoslavian activities, had met with Karadzic just the night before he made his offer public and "Karadzic didn't say anything to him even though there was communication with Carter at that point," Angelo says. "Akashi just felt insulted." Officially, U.N. officials are sticking with the NATO line and expressing skepticism...
...their getting what they asked for. They don't have many supporters left: Western leaders are miffed by the Bosnian Serbs' rejection of a peace plan that would have given them 49 percent of Bosnia. (BTW: Serbs comprise just a third of the population of Bosnia). And Yugoslavian Serbs, usually their natural allies, have also publicly excoriated them...