Word: yugoslavs
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After reading the "Farewell" section [Dec. 25, 2006--Jan. 1, 2007], I would like to suggest that next time around you include the loss of infamous notables, like Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic and al-Qaeda's Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, in a separate section titled "Good Riddance...
...nothing of the sort. The lines of division that had once seemed hard and fast withered away in 1989, and the old links and shared experiences that bind Europe together were revealed once more. That process, to be sure, was not always painless - the long war of the Yugoslav succession saw to that - but in comparison to the sadness and division after World War II, Europe is now in a state of grace, peaceful and united. It is a lucky continent, a place in which horrors such as those that took place in Budapest 50 years ago now seem scarcely...
...years since Time first published an Atlantic edition, we've covered wars, revolutions and their aftermath - the hard years following World War II; the tension of the cold war and, later, its end; revolution in Hungary; the long miserable war of the Yugoslav succession in the Balkans. But Europe is now prosperous other stories...
...relatively prosperous. At the time I was born, in the '60s, the living standard in Yugoslavia was about the same as in Greece and Spain, and considerably higher than in Portugal. Unlike our East European neighbors, we could sample the Western lifestyle and were free to travel. With a Yugoslav passport, one could pass through the Berlin Wall as if it wasn't there, and we were equally welcome in Israel and Egypt. When communism collapsed, Yugoslavia was expected to be the first East European country to join the European Community. But instead of E.U. membership we got Slobodan Milosevic...
...NATO air strikes effectively ended the rule of Yugoslav President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC and led to his jailing for alleged war crimes. His trial was nearing its end when he died of a heart attack. He was buried last week in Serbia...