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...school-yard brawl, the opening provocation was a taunt: "Independence!" But within 36 hours, the war of words between the republic of Slovenia and forces of the Yugoslav People's Army had escalated into a real fight, with the two sides trading lethal blows that left at least 40 dead and many more injured...
...multinational military force, and especially of one that binds the U.S. inextricably to the defense of close allies, is far too valuable to be allowed to erode. Moreover, if the heart of Europe seems secure for the moment, there are still potential threats out on the flanks -- from a Yugoslav civil war next door to NATO member Italy, for example...
That was just one day after the withdrawing Soviet tanks turned around and rolled back into Budapest. Soviet commanders claimed they were doing so at the request of Kadar, who was actually hiding in a Soviet command post outside the city. Nagy took refuge in the Yugoslav embassy but was later lured out, seized and hanged. After about a month of sporadic fighting, the Hungarian revolt was liquidated...
...only did Milosevic become the first holdover from the communist past to retain the presidency of a Yugoslav republic in an open election; his habit of waving the bloodied shirt of ethnic grievances set Serbia on a course of imminent collision with other Yugoslavs, notably Croats and Slovenes. Said Aleksandar Baljak, a Serbian journalist: "Democracy came and knocked at the door, but we weren't at home...
Whether Milosevic manages to retain control in Serbia's parliament in upcoming elections may determine whether the Yugoslav federation shatters. With a governing bloc, he could more easily press territorial claims against Croatia and grudges against Slovenia. Disintegration was not Poland's problem, and Walesa, despite his affection for Poland's prewar dictator, Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, strikes few people as a Volk-glorifying Fuhrer. But in trouncing candidate-come-lately Stanislaw Tyminski, a returned emigre who offered a form of national salvation as easy as a drug trip, Walesa himself could not quite shake off charges of pandering to emotions...