Word: montenegrin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least one of the region's leaders--Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic--is still hoping for a quick resolution. "I believe the war is coming to an end," he told TIME. "It was good that there was some peace initiative launched from Belgrade. It was insufficient, but encouraging...
...wrote poetry as well, though his former friends are contemptuous of his efforts. One poem from 1971, apparently an attempt to capture the feelings of Yugoslav peasants, was called, "Let's Go Down to the Town and Kill Some Scum." Says writer and essayist Marko Vesovic, 51, a fellow Montenegrin who has known Karadzic since 1963: "His poems didn't have character. He imitated the style of whoever impressed him." But Karadzic's buddies sympathized with him because, says Vesovic, "while we were studying literature, he was dissecting stinking bodies" in medical school...