Word: slovenia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...water reacts with carbon dioxide. The weak acid slowly dissolves bedrock. An underground stream forms, and an elaborate network of chambers like those found at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky takes shape. The unusual limestone terrains where this process occurs are known as karst, named for one such region in Slovenia that is famous for its caves. About 15% of the earth's terrain is karst. By studying and dating the old subterranean waterways, researchers can tell how wet or dry past climates have been...
...When Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence and appealed for international recognition last year, Macedonia had no choice but to follow suit. Otherwise it would have been swallowed up by Serbia...
...from the Muslim fanatic portrayed in Serbian propaganda, Rugova, 47, seems an unlikely nationalist leader. A Paris-educated Ph.D. in linguistics, he explains, "I opted for nonviolence because there has been too much violence in the Balkans. But since the war in Slovenia and Bosnia, Serbian ideology is one of brute force. Nonviolence may become absurd in these circumstances." The Kosovars harbor the dangerous conviction that the U.S. and Europe will help them win independence from Serbia -- the same conviction once held by moderates in Bosnia. But because Kosovo has never been an independent republic and is technically part...
...stop the killing would entail. Clearly, there is no simple solution, diplomatic or military. Economic sanctions, mediation and U.N. peacekeepers have been tried without stopping the fighting. No case for armed intervention appeals to any President, Prime Minister or people. Frustrated, Western leaders have averted their gaze while first Slovenia, then Croatia, now Bosnia descended into chaos...
...senior State Department official testified that economic sanctions against Serbia were working fine; two days later, after Bill Clinton said Bush should "do whatever it takes to stop the slaughter of civilians," the President was driven to announce a flurry of new measures -- full diplomatic recognition of Slovenia and Bosnia, international monitoring of Balkan borders and a call for a U.N. resolution authorizing force to deliver humanitarian aid -- but hardly enough to frighten away Milosevic and his henchmen...