Word: zagreb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People who are not capable of being tolerant are not healthy. People who are filled with hate are more sick than anybody else," said Slobodan Lang, a professor of public health from the University of Zagreb, addressing one of the plenary sessions...
...summer. The announcement immediately set off a fire storm of rumors in the Vatican that the 74-year-old Pope is seriously sick and possibly on the verge of dying, says TIME Rome Reporter Greg Burke. The stories were fueled by the Pope's appearance during his visit to Zagreb 10 days ago. "He looked terrible," says Burke. "He seemed feeble and tired." The Vatican flatly denies the rumors. The Pope's trip to Manila next year is still on, according to a spokesman...
...only "add to the tensions." (The pope's planned appearance had been in doubt since he announced the idea last month, as Bosnian Serbs repeatedly warned him to stay away for his own safety.) The pontiff, who vowed to make the journey at some point, is still going to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia and the Roman Catholic center of former Yugoslavia, on Saturday. BTW: John Paul II may not make it to Bosnia, but the bulletproof "Popemobile" is parked there, just in case...
Even a visit by the Pope becomes a hot political issue in the former Yugoslavia. The Vatican announced today that Pope John Paul will make a one-day visit to war-weary Sarajevo in early September. He will also visit the Croatian capital of Zagreb. The Vatican said the Pope wanted to stop by Belgrade in Serb-dominated Yugoslavia, but the Serbians said the time wasn't right...
...Sarajevo, in clear violation of the U.N.-imposed heavy-weapons exclusion zone that has kept the Bosnian capital virtually free of shelling since February. The symbolic NATO strike did the trick. Within two hours, Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the self-styled Bosnian Serb parliament, had phoned U.N. officials in Zagreb to say that the stolen weapons would be returned. By the next day they had been handed back...