Word: yugoslavic
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...recent months, the future status of the ethnically mixed republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina seemed more likely to be settled by bullets than by ballots. But in two days of polling last weekend, 64% of the registered voters in the central Yugoslav republic cast votes on whether to follow Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia into independence. Strong support among the republic's Muslims and Croats made for a virtually unanimous approval. Orthodox Serbs had been instructed to boycott the referendum. Even so, Western diplomats estimated that as many as 15% of Serbs also voted...
...ground for the intervention last fall; his successor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who engineered the Security Council's decision two weeks ago to dispatch the troops; Lord Carrington, the chief envoy in the European Community's effort to broker an overall political settlement among the pieces of the shattered Yugoslav federation; and Cyrus Vance, who has labored for five months as the personal envoy of the Secretary- General to negotiate a cessation of hostilities durable enough to put the peacekeepers in place...
...program worked: by early this year, the incidence of new AIDS cases had dropped from 50% to 5%. (Overall, 20% of Zurich's addicts have tested HIV positive.) Trouble was, the Platzspitz also became a magnet for professional dealers, especially Lebanese, Yugoslav and Turkish gangs that overran small dealers in a violent price...
...Olympic lottery to bring in cash. The campaign paid off and even netted a lucrative contract with Germany's Adidas, which will supply most of the team's competition uniforms. Outfits for the ceremonies as well as daywear and much of the equipment will be supplied by Goma, a Yugoslav textile firm. There is some irony in that, since Yugoslavia has split apart in a bloody civil war. Its former republics of Croatia and Slovenia (home of the country's best Alpine skiers) will be participating separately...
...area was peaceful, the weather clear, and the two white helicopters flying toward Zagreb prominently displayed the insignia of the European Community's monitoring mission. Nevertheless, a Yugoslav army MiG-21 fighter fired four air-to-air missiles, scoring a direct hit on one chopper, killing all five observers -- four Italian and one French -- on board...