Word: yugoslavias
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...guys who own the most real estate in Los Angeles are Europeans. There are people coming over from Yugoslavia with hardly any money...a friend of mine came over from Czechoslovakia in '68 and he now owns four apartment buildings. Americans are still sitting on their asses waiting for it. Europeans are hungry because we don't have that much...
...travelled to Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and the Netherlands as a writer for Let’s Go. He developed the first edition of Let’s Go Italy and after college briefly tested travel writing as a profession...
...them for 40 years. "A Yugoslav classmate of mine once told me, 'You Czechs don't know how to fight for your own thing,'" he says. "Now look at what resulted from fighting for their own thing. Who wants to pass mass graves on his way to vacation [in Yugoslavia]?" After traveling back in time, Hrebejk is ready to tackle a contemporary theme. At the end of the summer, he starts shooting Horem pádem (Loop the Loop is the working English title), a tale of illegal refugees, baby snatchers, soccer hooligans and an estranged son coming home. Sounds...
...authors have dropped the Blissett banner and regrouped as Wu Ming (Chinese for "without a name"). They have become full-time authors and acquired a fifth member - author and punk rocker Riccardo Pedrini - and recently produced 54, a "screwball comedy" novel set in 1954 featuring Cary Grant and Yugoslavia's Josep Broz Tito. In the works is a historical fantasy about 19th century America. And several members are writing solo novels under the names Wu Ming 1 (Bui) through Wu Ming 5 (Pedrini). But what about the utopian vision, the leftist imagination, the quirky tactics that first brought the group...
...JANKO BOBETKO, 84, former Croatian army chief and war-crimes suspect, who was hailed as a hero of the country's independence struggle; in Zagreb. Bobetko fought in the antifascist forces during World War II and then joined the Yugoslav army. After Croatia's 1991 declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, which triggered a six-month war against Serb rebels, Bobetko joined the Croatian army and was appointed its Chief of Staff in 1992. Last September the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague accused Bobetko of being responsible for the killings of some 100 Serb civilians and soldiers during...