Word: slavko
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firebrand bent on carving out an Islamic state in the heart of Europe. But the 70-year-old President most often seems to be a sincere, naive and at times haplessly besieged politician struggling to perform a delicate tightrope act. "He finds himself in danger all the time," says Slavko Santic, vice president of the opposition group Circle 99. "He must balance between the extremist and democratic forces in his party." If he does not, it will take far more than Holbrooke's embroidery to stitch Bosnia back together again...
...Colonel Slavko Lisica heads the Doboj Corps. He claims to have 45,000 men -- a gross exaggeration according to intelligence estimates that put the total Serb troops in Bosnia at no more than 90,000 -- under his command, and controls about 400 sq. mi. of territory substantially "cleansed" of Muslims. The situation map behind his desk shows his lines extending like a pointed finger into Muslim territory. All that would be needed to trap the corps would be for the Muslims to cut through the 10-mile-wide base of the finger with an assault on Doboj...