Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grandstanding and rhetoric of June gave way to the tanks and guns of July. As Yugoslavia heads into August, the fighting is spurring ever more urgent attempts to devise at least piecemeal solutions. The European Community last week dispatched three foreign ministers to Zagreb and Belgrade to secure a cease-fire in the increasingly volatile republic of Croatia. The trio arrived bearing words of peace, but without any assurance that they could engineer a truce, let alone an enduring solution. In Belgrade, sessions convened by Yugoslavia's crippled eight-member federal presidency produced door slamming and name calling...
...tougher Milosevic gets with Kosovo, the more likely it is that Slovenia and Croatia will accelerate their moves away from the center. "Whatever happens now, Yugoslavia as we have known it since World War II is finished," says Zvonko Baletic of the Institute of Economics in Zagreb. "The best we can hope for is a confederation of basically independent states...
...million Serbs live in other republics, making prospects for negotiated independence remote -- and the threat of violent confrontations real if change is not handled carefully. "Any unilateral attempts to break up Yugoslavia will lead to civil war," says Dusan Bilandjic, a political scientist at the University of Croatia in Zagreb. "Once it starts, it will be difficult to stop...