Word: yugoslavs
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...thin ray of hope for peace glowed as Bosnia's beleaguered Muslims signed separate cease-fire agreements with Croatia and with the Bosnian Serbs. If the truces hold, all three parties may soon be signing a peace accord that would partition the former Yugoslav republic into a confederation of three ethnic zones. The agreement, if ratified, would allow any of the three enclaves to withdraw from the confederation after two years...
Like George Kenney, who resigned as the State Department's Yugoslav affairs officer in August 1992 to protest George Bush's supine Bosnia policy, Harris could not stomach Clinton's inaction "against genocide and the Serbs who perpetrate it." Now that the U.S. is ready to send in the Air Force, it would seem an odd time for a dramatic stand. But not to Harris, who considers the Administration's role a tawdry sellout...
...advance guard of 41 soldiers from the U.S. Army's Berlin Brigade arrived in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia to join 700 U.N. peacekeepers keeping an eye on the borders of neighboring Albania and Serbia...
...that will ferry migrants across the Oder River to Germany. Farther south, the activities of similar "travel agencies" directed or supervised by criminal gangs crowd the towns along the Czech- & German border. Pilsen is so jammed with migrants from Bosnia and Croatia that its native Czech residents call it "Yugoslav City." That is partly a misnomer because while many of those in transit are from war-ravaged segments of the former Yugoslavia, other thousands are Bulgarians, Romanians, Turks and Russians. All of them, though, have something in common: they are desperate to get into Germany and to the other prosperous...
Somalia is not the only country to which U.S. forces are being dispatched -- President Clinton also announced last week that he would send 300 soldiers to precariously positioned Macedonia, the former Yugoslav republic, to serve as a deterrent against a Serbian invasion. While the small contingent seemed trivial, Secretary of State Warren Christopher insisted the deployment of troops to Macedonia showed that "our moral authority is intact...