Channel surfing

... just about the most diverse neighborhood in the city. At the time, due to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, most of the people in my rather large apartment building were refugees from Bosnia and Croatia. These ... downsides, however. The apartment directly below me was occupied by a former NYPD cop on permanent disability, and this man was a dangerous psychopath....

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bosnia: lifting the arms embargo.

...government first had been divided over proposals for direct intervention to stop the infamous spasms of violence, the ethnic cleansing, that had plagued the former Yugoslavia since the end of the Cold War. He said General Powell and others had recommended against various military options, arguing that air attacks...

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Minesweeper

... during the U.S. Civil War. Five of them were found in Alabama in the 1960s, still live. The Cadillac of landmines were made in the former Yugoslavia. With hermetically sealed fuses, they are expected to last a minimum of 100 years in working condition. Egypt has the most planted landmines, with Cambodia a close ...

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Stakhanovites and Taylor

... of coal and three times the best effort of Mr. Stakhanov) in a shift, whereas in Yugoslavia a worker named Alija Sirotanović who apparently broke the coal mining record was so honored that in ... recent story in The New Yorker about the new book 'The Management Myth' by Matthew Stewart, a former management consultant covers a lot of stories about how Taylor, in demonstrating his value, often used ...

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For the cartographers...

... the collapsing US , detailing what might have been the strategy for the Soviet invasion - although Yugoslavia severed ties with the USSR in Stalin's day and Tito lived to tell the tale....... 330: From picking cotton to picking presidents shows the rather disturbing correlation between the former cotton plantations in the confederate states and the results of the 2008 US presidential election by ...

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Kosovo honors Bill Clinton with statue

...to welcome ex-president Many waved American, Albanian and Kosovo flags and chanted "USA!" as the former president climbed on top of a podium with his poster in the background reading "Kosovo ... arm raised and holding a portfolio bearing his name and the date when NATO started bombing Yugoslavia, on March. 24, 1999. An estimated 10,000 ethnic Albanians were killed during the Kosovo crackdown ...

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But when the dawn comes up

... closer.) That shows what you know, as Yugoslavia joins the war on the 2nd of ... again independently of the Axis and of Yugoslavia, so actually this doesn't change anything as neither Hungary nor Yugoslavia has a front with any Communist power.... about Minsk, a little east of the former Polish border with the Soviets. While ... of the year, the 29th of December, Yugoslavia joins its fate to Germany's. So...

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[FORUM] Would you justify acts of terrorism, and if so which ones?

In yesterday's blog post on the failure of terrorism in Québec to survive through the 1970s, I mentioned that a major reason for the failure of the Front de Libération du Quec to survive was the fact that the people of Québec regarded their institutions as legitimate and democratic, and viewed violence directed towards people as abhorrent. Most members of most cells of the FLQ have been ...

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[LINK] "Iraqi Air Force Discovered!!!!!"

Lawyers, Guns and Money's Robert Farley linked to an unusual article from The New York Times . Iraqi officials have discovered that they may have an air force, after all. The Defense Ministry revealed Sunday that it recently learned that Iraq owns 19 Russian-designed MIG-21 and MIG-23 jet fighters, which are in storage in Serbia. The ministry said Iraqi officials are negotiating with the...

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What is language?

My mom sent me some scans of letters either to or from her grandfather who was from somewhere in the former Yugoslavia AFAIK. He died when he was young, so we don't know what his original name even was, ethnicity, or what language he spoke. I think these letters are Polish, but the handwriting is too hard for me to read to ...

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