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While the war is ripping apart the intricately entwined ethnic mix of the old Yugoslavia, the makeshift arrangements of the dispossessed sometimes forge new bonds. Jelena Pekez, 27, a Croat from the Bosnian town of Jajce, is married to a Serb. Vesna Gacic, 29, a Serb from the Bosnian town of Mostar, is married to a man of Croatian and Muslim descent. Both women fled to Kosmaj, south of Belgrade: Pekez left just ahead of a total blockade of her hometown, Gacic after a frightening 20-day stay in an underground shelter. When the two women's paths crossed...
...people wafted through the rubble-strewn streets of Vukovar. Through 12 weeks of fighting, 58,000 townspeople had fled. The 12,000 who remained behind cowered in the town's cellars and sewers, rolling cigarettes from tea leaves and burning strips of doused cloth for light. "This is hell," Vesna Vukovic, a Croatian television reporter, pleaded over the airwaves. "We just cannot stand it anymore...
...always wanted a fur, and I get what I want," says Karen Fallica, 24, an accountant from Brooklyn who earns about $25,000 a year and has budgeted $6,000 for a mink. "It's not worth it to wait for a guy to get you one," maintains Vesna Vujosevic, 23, a secretary from Queens, as she prowls through Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue in search of a floor-length blue...
...Radcliffe Senior 24 are: Jane S. Avrich, Jeanne D. Bachelor, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Phyllidia A. Burlingame, Audrey Choi, Amy E. Colson, De Chiazza, Julia Dubner, Carol A. Ensalaco, M. Zita Ezpeleta, Mary T. Giliberti, Kathleen T. Hogan, Vesna Karaklajic, Canan Karateklin, Charlene Kwok, Amy Lai, Caroline W. Neal, Anna E. Plauth, Anne T. Robinson, Roseff, Patricia A. Schoor, Andrea Shen, Miryam B. Silverman, and Lori M. Wiviott...
...asked the College in November to provide the financial guarantee it would need to receive a 20-year mortgage on the $280,000 house, said Vesna Karaklajic '88, the group's president...