Word: yugoslavic
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...after day, police and irate ethnic Albanians clashed in Yugoslavia's southern Kosovo province as the demonstrators protested their domination by the Serbian republic, of which Kosovo is a part. By the end of last week at least 20 people were dead, and the Yugoslav daily Vecernje Novosti warned, "Kosovo is a step away from civil...
...northern Yugoslav republic of Slovenia, fearful of rising Serbian hegemony, voted in September to confirm its right to secede. By banning a rally of Serbs in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana last month, the province's Communist leader, Milan Kucan, has become a local hero. Communist Party officials from around the country began meeting last weekend in Belgrade to discuss and possibly approve the creation of a multiparty system for April elections and an end to the Communist monopoly on power. Opponents of the plan predicted it would produce parties that would foster local nationalism and trigger the breakup...
...Yugoslav returning from Romania told The Associated Press police fired on the protesters and at least two people were killed...
...said other Yugoslav travelers reported seeing more bodies in Timisoara after security forces dispersed the largest anti-government protests since a protest by 10,000 workers at Brasov...
...dead, including a child, on the streets," he said. Other Yugoslav travelers said soldiers were seen three-deep at main intersections in Timisoara on Sunday. The official Hungarian news agency MTI quoted a Czechoslovak, not identified, as saying tanks were in the streets...