Word: slovenia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: Beginning in 1987 in Kosovo, you were talking about an ascendant Serbia, and people in Slovenia and Croatia and Bosnia feared living in your Yugoslavia...
...Adelboden, Tomba initially had trouble finding his rhythm and finished the first of his two runs 0.34 sec. behind Norway's Harald Strand Nilsen. Early in the second run, he lagged slightly behind his pal Jure Kosir of Slovenia. Then, under the eyes of 5.5 million Italian TV watchers, La Bomba proved as good as his name. He blasted into the steep final leg and cut his arcs sharply in his gate-crashing style. He ended with a composite time of 2:21.96, 0.07 sec. faster than Kosir...
Sunday: In a rambling interview with a 60 Minutes reporter, said that "it's better if Jewish people will live together in Israel" and denied ever having worked for the KGB . . . Monday: Left Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, after being forced to stay overnight in an airport lounge when officials denied him entry to the country. (In January he had been asked to leave Slovenia after reports that his entourage had damaged property at a resort while drinking.) . . . Friday: Refused to meet with former U.S. President Richard Nixon, saying the U.S. nearly "impeached Nixon and now Russia is impeaching...
Before the Yugoslav federal army (now in reality the Serb army) moved into Croatia or Bosnia, it attempted an attack on Slovenia. They were met with determined and organized opposition and quickly pulled out. This action indicates that once the costs become too high, the Serbs will cease offensive action. It's just that the West has allowed the cost of aggression in Bosnia and Croatia to be pitifully...
...Slovenia's ambassador to the United Nations yesterday criticized the U.N. for not deploying troops to the former Yugoslavia to guarantee humanitarian...