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There was more bad news from Europe last week. In what used to be Yugoslavia, the breakaway states of Croatia and Bosnia formed a military alliance against Serbia, a move that is likely to escalate the fighting in the Balkans. The country that used to call itself Czechoslovakia has already split up its name: it's now the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. That last word will soon be plural, for both Czechs and Slovaks agreed on Saturday to create separate states by the end of September. In what used to be the U.S.S.R., old feuds flared anew...
...attended ceremony in Belgrade symbolized the diplomatic isolation that the U.S. and other powers are trying to impose on Serbia. Their intent is to force the fiercely nationalistic leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to stop what looks to most of the world like aggression against the breakaway republics of the old federation. But moral suasion, coupled with the explicit threat of economic sanctions, has as yet achieved nothing. Instead, the warfare among Serbs, Croats, Slovenes and Slavic Muslims has given the world a lesson in the true -- and terrible -- meaning of the often loosely used term Balkanization. If the proprietors...
...Milosevic and his Serb followers. By this reading, their incessant attempts to dominate the other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia caused every erstwhile republic but tiny Montenegro to secede. Then Milosevic sought to salvage a kind of Greater Serbia from the wreckage by encouraging Serb-populated regions of the breakaway republics to resist secession -- and providing the crude military means to do so. Around U.N. headquarters in New York City, some diplomats are reminded of the way Hitler used the supposed need to protect German minorities in Czechoslovakia as an excuse to subjugate those countries...
...bitter as could be Saturday, chiding the referees all afternoon long. Who knows what he was angry about? His team got called for only one penalty all game...Harvard junior Marty Dolan tallied a goal and an assist, including Harvard's last goal of the game, a beautiful breakaway at 13:14 of the second period. PRINCETON, 13-3 at Ohiri Field Princeton 4 0 1 8 -- 13 Harvard...
Since Maastricht there has been a growing sense of irritation among Germany's neighbors on a variety of issues. The ink on the Maastricht agreement was hardly dry before Bonn pressured -- some say bullied -- the rest of the E.C. into recognizing the breakaway Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia. Most of the 12 preferred to wait to give E.C. negotiators a chance to implement a cease-fire, but Germany forced a decision by threatening to go it alone. Then, just before Christmas, the Bundesbank suddenly raised its interest rates, compelling most of the rest of Western Europe to follow...