Word: yugoslavic
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...dance-bar proprietor in Vienna. Following a night's rest in Stoilov's hometown of Sandanska, the Russian politician traveled to the village of Melnik to accept a painting from a local artist who shares Zhirinovsky's conviction that Bulgaria should expand its territory by annexing the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. To make sure the message got across, he restated this theory for a Sofia newspaper...
MUNICH: Last Friday's magazine section of the Suddeutsche Zeitung tried to bring the violence done to women in war right into 520,000 readers' homes. American artist Jenny Holzer used blood donated by eight German and Yugoslav women volunteers in her design for the cover, a black page with a white card glued to it carrying the sanguinolent message: "Anywhere women are dying, I am wide awake." Many found the approach too sensational: "Repulsive and absurd," was the response of Peter Heimer at the German Red Cross. But Hamburg fashion designer Wolfgang Joop, a financial backer of the project...
...company in letting bids; they say they were just trying to act with dispatch. Budgets languish in a labyrinth of competing bureaucracies, and once expenditures are approved, the U.N. rarely receives more than 30% of peacekeeping assessments from member states within six months of fielding an operation. When the Yugoslav mission expanded to cover all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the U.N. was under such financial pressure that it could not pay for the quick deployment of troops from Western Europe. The contingents had to cover their own expenses...
...represents the work of 36 photographers from 12 countries, including many whose pictures have appeared in our pages. Chosen as the emblem of the exhibit is a photo of a woman grieving at the funeral of her husband, a Croatian policeman killed in an ambush by Serbs of the Yugoslav National Army forces. It was taken by TIME's Christopher Morris, who has covered the war since its start and has provided some of its most powerful images. After the show closes in New York City on Oct. 2, it will tour the U.S., including stops in Los Angeles, Chicago...
...Maid Servant and Goya's Portrait of Dona Antonia Zarate. In one of the largest art heists of recent years, the paintings were stolen seven years ago from Russborough House, the Dublin-area home of the late Sir Alfred Beit, a private , collector. Three Irishmen and a Yugoslav were caught near Antwerp transporting the paintings, along with six other stolen works, in two rented cars...