Word: yugoslavic
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...etween the two nations was nonetheless a disquieting reprise of old cold war showdowns. Ardent nationalists demonstrated, inflammatory editorials issued calls to arms, tanks moved into position, and ships at sea began "strategic maneuvers." Berlin? Czechoslovakia? In fact, the moves and countermoves involved the area around Trieste, on the Yugoslav-Italian border, which until now has been one of the most successfully accommodated (though never finally resolved) East-West disputes...
...reached. Italy was granted provisional control over the northern section of the 287-sq.-mi. territory. Called Zone A, it included the city of Trieste (pop. 270,000), which is predominantly Italian but has a large Slovene minority. The rest of the area, Zone B, was kept provisionally under Yugoslav control...
...largely unpoliced frontier between the zones eventually became one of the most open in Europe. Hundreds of Italian motorists daily crossed the line to buy Yugoslav meat and cheap gasoline in Zone B. The highway connecting the two zones became known as "washing-machine road"-a reference to the Western-made appliances that Yugoslav tourists brought home with them from shopping trips to Zone...
...problem is that the demarcation line is still not, technically speaking, a border. The current dispute began when signs on the Yugoslav side of the line were changed last January in such a way as to imply that Zone B was an integral part of the Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia. Italians immediately protested that Yugoslavia was trying to establish permanent sovereignty over Zone...
Italian Premier Mario Rumor sent a note of protest to Belgrade, describing Zone B as "Italian territory." Marshal Tito's government responded by claiming that Zone B (and Zone A, too, if Rome really wanted to pursue the matter) was "Yugoslav territory." Yugoslav armor and troops went on maneuvers, and protests erupted in a number of Croat and Slovene border towns. More than 10,000 people crowded Tito Square in the Zone B town of Koper, some carrying signs reading, WHAT IS OURS WE DON'T GIVE...