Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote into a referendum on policies toward the occupied territories. The Labor and Likud parties hope the ballot will grant them a divorce. -- Ferdinand Marcos is indicted on U. S. racketeering charges. -- In Afghanistan rebel leader Ahmad Shah Massoud girds for a showdown with government forces. -- Yugoslavia' s crisis deepens as politicians squabble...
...national leadership and address the nation's economic miseries. What they got was a three-day Belgrade talkathon that accomplished little -- and may in fact have worsened the political crisis. The biggest loser, at least for the moment, was Slobodan Milosevic, the demagogic Serbian party leader and Yugoslavia's most charismatic politician since Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980. Afraid of Milosevic's success in exploiting nationalistic sentiment among Yugoslavia's 8 million Serbs, his enemies ganged up on him and won at least a temporary victory...
Milosevic has been campaigning for a drastic expansion of Serbia's power within Yugoslavia, including a tightened grip over the province of Kosovo, which is now only technically under Serbian control. Yugoslavia's Serbs regard Kosovo as their historic homeland, even though they now constitute little more than 10% of the province's population. At last week's meeting, Milosevic was opposed by the leaders of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia, all of whom feared that his ambitious campaign would upset the fragile balance of power among Yugoslavia's six republics and two autonomous provinces...
...also accepted the resignations of four of the 14 Politburo members. But | what may have distressed Yugoslavs most was the Central Committee's failure to address the disastrous meddling of party apparatchiks in the country's economy -- a subject on which Milosevic has campaigned with marked success. While Yugoslavia's $21 billion debt worries Western bankers, its citizens have watched their standard of living decline steadily. Heating bills often consume half an average monthly income of less than $100, while housewives must stand in line for hours to buy bread...
...Yugoslavia' s numerically dominant Serbs demand a larger share of influence, several Soviet republics push for greater autonomy. -- Why many Israeli voters are flocking to the splinter parties on the right and the left. -- Sri Lanka' s Tamil and Sinhalese militants move violently to disrupt elections. -- A personal odyssey along the 2,076- mile U. S.- Mexican border...