Word: zagreb
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...Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon nothing may be left for intervention to save anyway. Mladen Klemencic, a military analyst in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, speculates that the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire because they "are satisfied with the military results they have achieved. They have their corridor, so their job is finished." (See related story on page...
...Aida Catovic, 32, left Sarajevo on May 18 with her two small children. They escaped just in time: the next convoy out was detained by Serbian gunmen, who took 5,000 people hostage for three days. After taking the grueling bus ride to Split in Croatia, Catovic flew to Zagreb. Now living with distant relatives of her in-laws, she waits anxiously for the daily call from her husband in Sarajevo. "The only question I ask is, 'Are you all still alive?' " she says. "And every day I worry what the answer will be tomorrow...
...chase since late April. First, he tried to make his way to Germany, where a generous asylum law enables refugees to stay for an extended period. But the Austrians wouldn't let Becirovic and his family across their border without German visas. Then he turned to Western embassies in Zagreb. "The Americans refer me to their embassy in Vienna, but I can't get there without a visa," he says. He has run up against the same problem with the Swiss and British. There was a bright moment when he secured a visa from the Swedes -- but once Bosnia received...
...themselves as refugees. Adults are also relinquishing former ties. "I grew up with Serbs. We chased women together when we were young," says David Becirovic, 35, a Muslim businessman from Sarajevo who now camps with his wife, two children and 100 other people in a sports hall in downtown Zagreb. He says the drumbeat of Serbian leaders, who declare that any Serb who doesn't join the battle is a traitor, has made Sarajevo an alien place. "I used to have the feeling I knew half the city," he says. "Now that's gone...
...victims' coffins, draped with E.C. flags during a memorial service in Zagreb's cathedral the next evening, were a bleak reminder that peace will not come easily to Yugoslavia after six months of civil war. The federal military was quick to refer to "an unwanted and tragic event," and the Serb- controlled federal government offered requisite apologies. But a shake-up in the top military command solidifying Serb dominance led to fresh worries that the army might not fully support the cease-fire. As the U.N. dispatched observers over the weekend to monitor the fragile peace, the truce appeared...