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...estimated it affected 6% of children in one town. But as long as the war impedes medical help, the affliction's future will remain as unpredictable as its past is mysterious. - By Stephan Faris Old Foes Make Up SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO During the first visit to Belgrade by a Croatian President since Serbs and Croats went to war in 1991, both heads of state offered regrets for the actions of their citizens during the conflict. "I want to apologize for all the wrongdoings that any citizen of Serbia and Montenegro has committed against any citizen of Croatia," Serbian President Zvetozar...
...plan is really a front to resume commercial whaling, which the country is considering after 2006. Whale watching draws about 62,000 visitors to Iceland every year and there are fears that tourists may now boycott the country. European Heroes: Whale Of An Opportunity Brassed Off SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO The country's top military committee, the Supreme Defense Council, dismissed 16 senior generals in a bid to rid the military of high-ranking personnel affiliated with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The dismissals are meant to secure the military's loyalty to the democratic government that succeeded Milosevic...
Tony Ronzone is basketball's premier frequent flyer. He has coached in Saudi Arabia, searched for a point guard in Montenegro, evaded Yugoslav border police to scout a power forward and twice visited North Korea to peek at a 7ft. 9-in. center. One September day in 1998, Ronzone was conducting a hoops clinic in Shanghai when he received an invitation to an 18th-birthday party. The birthday boy was quick, graceful--and 7 ft. 3 in. tall. Ronzone accepted. "The parents were there, maybe a few Chinese officials," Ronzone recalls. "We're all stuffed into this apartment the size...
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO Goodbye, Yugoslavia Seventy-four years after its foundation, Yugoslavia was formally dissolved. Politicians of the federation's two remaining republics voted to create a looser union, which will have one army but two currencies, and which will be given a three-year trial run. Last year the European Union urged separatist-leaning Montenegrins to shelve their desire for independence from larger Serbia. The E.U. feared that a move toward independence by Montenegro would encourage other secessionist movements, notably in neighboring Kosovo...
...MONTENEGRO Dirty Business Deputy State Prosecutor Zoran Piperovic and at least six others were arrested for alleged involvement in a sex-slave network. Police said they had evidence from an unnamed Moldovan woman, who claimed she was tortured and forced into prostitution. Women's rights activists claimed Piperovic was part of a much larger ring that includes other top officials. Piperovic denies the charges...