As a Yugoslav-born American and now a resident of New York, I find it impossible, in this situation, not to remember Hurricane Sandy — the blow-by-blow coverage of its devastation of the East Coast, the seventy-four hundred National Guard members deployed, the global outpouring of sympathy, the superstar laden 12-12-12 relief concert.
126 crewmen died, as well as a wounded Yugoslav Partisan transported from Pag for medical treatment and Yugoslav Partisan liaison officer, Colonel Ivan Preradović.
In the early eighties, Tata was mostly absent from Sarajevo, working in Zaire as a minor Yugoslav diplomat in charge of communications (whatever that meant).
Late Wednesday, as a famous Yugoslav musician, Goran Bregovic, a Sarajevan, played to what remained of this huge rally -- his first performance in Belgrade in many years -- the streets were full of discarded leaflets and banners.
Instead, Montenegrin officials will use the Sydney Games to lobby the International Olympic Committee to recognize Montenegro, a Yugoslav republic, as a sovereign state with its own flag and teams, said Djurdjic, the head of the Montenegrin Olympic Committee.
From 1950 to 1956 unofficial Croatian teams were briefly active; they won games against Indonesia and a Yugoslav team playing as "Serbia".
He said that as early as 1989, as political tensions built among the Yugoslav republics, it had become clear to him that Mr. Milosevic would use every means, even violence, to keep all Serbs in a Yugoslav state.
The Yugoslav federal prime minister Ante Marković was also present, as were the Yugoslav federal foreign minister Budimir Lončar, interior minister Petar Gračanin and the deputy defence minister Vice Admiral Stane Brovet.
My first experience of cinema was watching "Battle of Neretva" ("Bitka na Neretvi"), a Yugoslav-liberation-war spectacle starring Yul Brynner, Franco Nero, and Orson Welles, as well as domestic actors known to Yugoslav viewers by their first names (Milena, Bata, Boris, Smoki).
