Word: yugoslavias
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...Three decades later, the fugitive ex-champion, sought by U.S. authorities for violating U.N. sanctions on Yugoslavia (in 1992 he played a high-profile rematch with Boris Spassky in Belgrade), is whisked out of a Japanese jail where he was awaiting extradition and offered shelter in Reykjav?k. No one is too upset about this arrangement because he's clearly a sick man. His insane rants about Jews and America, his choice of a squalid, furtive life by a man who could have lived in princely admiration, his paranoia--he had the fillings in his teeth removed because if "somebody took...
...democratic postwar era vanished with Stalin's unkept pledge to hold free elections in the "liberated" territories. By 1949, Communist regimes had consolidated power by force or subterfuge in eight countries. During the past 40 years, only two nations have been able to escape the Soviet orbit: Yugoslavia in 1948 and Albania...
...FISCHER, 62, chess legend; from eight months of detention in Japan on an alleged passport violation; after being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a rematch there against Spassky in 1992, flew to Reykjavik and held a press conference in which he denounced the U.S. as "hypocritical and corrupt...
...vitriolic chess legend; after being detained for eight months in Japan for an alleged passport violation; upon being granted citizenship in Iceland, where he is a hero for his 1972 victory over rival Boris Spassky. Fischer, whose extradition was sought by the U.S. for violating sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing a re-match there against Spassky in 1992, flew to Reykjavik and publicly denounced the U.S. as "hypocritical and corrupt...
...crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia issued its final indictment last week - for ex-Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and his bodyguard Johan Tarculovski on charges of murder, wanton destruction and cruel treatment - but its previous warrants are still causing ructions in the Balkans. Croatia hoped to start European Union accession talks this month, but the deal was postponed after the Hague tribunal's chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, argued that former Croatian general Ante Gotovina is "within the reach of the Croatian authorities" but has still not been turned in almost four years after he was indicted. Serbia...