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Yugoslavia found itself in a precarious, fragile situation entering the '90s. There were in large numbers throughout the country moderate citizens and politicians, Croat, Serb, and of other ethnicities, who hoped to see the country transform itself peacefully into a loosely knit confederation in which all citizens would play a part in governance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade to see a photo exhibit designed to justify their ethnic cleansing and brutal destruction at Vukovar. In a glass case was a steel instrument that looked like a tuning fork, but with the prongs spaced 3 1/2 in. apart. The Croat Ustache used to use the handy device to gouge out Serb prisoners' eyes, both at once. Applied art, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Balkans' Heritage of Hatred | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...political courage." Surroi, a stocky, square-jawed intellectual who smokes a pipe and talks in a gravelly monotone, is the son of a former ambassador from Yugoslavia to Mexico and Spain. His global upbringing gave him fluency in Spanish and English in addition to his native Albanian and Serbo-Croat. He is popular with diplomats. "Unlike the other [ethnic Albanians], he speaks the language of foreign policy," says an observer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Salesman for the Peace Plan | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...thousands of Serbs took to the roads in caravans, tractors and cars to flee the Croat offensive and were assaulted along the trip by Croat mobs...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diplomat Galbraith Makes Peace His Career | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

Countering statements that ethnic Croats desired the break-up of Bosnia, Bagaric said the ethnic Croat representatives actually constituted a crucial part of the two-thirds majority in the 1992 Bosnian declaration of independence...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bagaric Discusses Bosnian Problems | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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