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...plan, the country would openly look to the West for trade and inspiration. Today, 800,000 Yugoslavs live in Western Europe, mostly West Germany, as guest workers, while their countrymen are also free to travel to the West, and openly aspire to a Western style of living. Says Zoran Mandic, 23, a clerk in a Belgrade bookstore: "Compared to the Bulgarians and the Poles, I am doing very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Other Heresies: Hungary | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...mission in the first visit by a first lady to a potentially hostile area since Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Clinton also met with members of the Federation Constitutional Court, where she was told about the death wrought by the civil war. "Sarajevo is the largest graveyard in the world," Katarina Mandic told the first lady. "On every corner we find dead bodies. Dead animals. We found blood and destruction everywhere." Mrs. Clinton is on an eight-day goodwill trip through Europe with her daughter Chelsea. The first lady delivered mail and gifts to the troops from their family members, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Lady Visits U.S. Peacekeepers | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...father, a Greek clergyman-orator; his mother, Georgina Mandic, a Serbian inventress of household thingamajigs. "Her fingers were still nimble enough to tie three knots in an eyelash" when she was past 60. Dr. Tesla migrated to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Alva Edison, whom he soon quit. His naturalization papers he keeps in a safety box, his scientific medals and degrees in old trunks and cupboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tesla at 75 | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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