Word: montenegro
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ONLY TWO REPUBLICS -- SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO -- remain in what Belgrade continues to call Yugoslavia, and the U.N. General Assembly is having none of it. The Assembly voted 127 to 6 to oust the truncated federation. In order to reclaim U.N. membership, it will have to reapply as a new nation and gain approval from the Security Council. And to do that, so-called Yugoslavia will have to prove it has stopped supporting Serbian militias in Bosnia and is working to restore peace...
...them by "ethnic cleansing" of the province's majority Albanians and then attempt a conquest of independent Macedonia in the guise of protecting a Serb minority there. Reports are filtering in to London of ethnic purges carried out by both Serbs and Croats in Serbia's sister republic of Montenegro: Croatia might also try to annex by force the Croat-populated northwestern corner. Any of these moves could touch off a general Balkan war drawing in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey -- making the parallels to Munich uncomfortably close to complete...
There are rich possibilities for more bloodshed in other parts of the country still called Yugoslavia, which now consists only of Serbia and Montenegro. Triumphant Serbs might try to extend their conquests in Kosovo, a province populated overwhelmingly by Albanians; in Macedonia, like Bosnia a former Yugoslav republic that has declared independence; and in Vojvodina, another Serbian province with a large and restless Hungarian minority. Finally, says one diplomat, "there is the Serb-Serb civil war" for control of what would then be a Greater Serbia...
...That's right. The players cheering Jordan so wildly were the very Argentines whom he was reducing to the level of kids playing pickup on the playground. No matter. "I played with great happiness against the monsters," Argentine center Hernan Montenegro said later. Added guard Marcelo Milanesio: "When we met at the center of the court, I was very excited that it was Magic Johnson shaking my hand...
...Montenegro, the only former federal republic that remains linked with Serbia and thus also subject to sanctions, President Momir Bulatovic implied that those ties may be a mistake. "We cannot endure months of sanctions," he said. "Change is possible...