Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late evening report, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said Romanian security forces took full control yesterday of Timisoara, just 30 miles from the Yugoslav border. Ceausescu flew to Iran earlier in the day for a three-day official visit...
...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...
...republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia, provided a reminder last week of why the word Balkanization is a synonym for divisiveness. Meeting in the capital of Ljubljana, the republic's parliament overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment allowing Slovenia to secede from the Yugoslav federation. Though a split is not imminent, the move was seen as insurance for the Slovenes against growing Serbian nationalism. Slovenia, which shares borders with Italy and Austria, boasts the nation's most prosperous economy. But it is dependent on raw materials from the rest of the country and, despite growing exports...