Word: yugoslavian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVEN ANTIDEMOCRATS LIKE SERBIAN PRESIDENT Slobodan Milosevic crave the legitimacy only elections can bestow; what is vexing is the chance of losing. So he fixed the odds. Milosevic now risks almost nothing in upcoming Dec. 20 balloting, since the Serbian Electoral Commission disqualified his most formidable opponent, Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Panic, for failing to meet a one-year residency requirement...
...rationales for their positions, while unstated in official communiques, are not secret. Germany wants to expand its power to the East by slicing up potential rivals, and France fears an expansion of Germany's influence over Eastern Europe. The cause of the EC's hemming and hawing on the Yugoslavian question, then, is not some failure in coordination, but the natural outgrowth of deep-seated rivalries and insecurities within the Community...
...months later, Secretary of State Baker went to Yugoslavia on the eve of civil war and gave the distinct impression to all involved that the U.S. favored the unitary Yugoslavian state, then controlled by Serbian communists. This signal too had to be withdrawn when the Serbian-controlled army set out to restore the unitary state with tanks and planes...
...victorious allied march into Kuwait City in the wake of Desert Storm was spearheaded by a contingent of returning Kuwaitis. Few if any noticed, however, that the Kuwaitis were riding atop Yugoslavian M-84 battle tanks -- upgraded versions of the Soviets' workhorse T-72 -- complete with East European backup personnel. Sixty-four such tanks and crews had been purchased, financed and supplied to the Desert Storm coalition forces by B.C.C.I...
...said he surprised Gurevich with an unconventional opening taken from an obscure Yugoslavian chess publication. "I managed to steer him onto unfamiliar territory," Rao said...