Most of those still at large are believed to be in Bosnia's Serb Republic or in present-day Yugoslavia, a federation of Serbia and Montenegro.
(AP) GERMANY: TIES WITH YUGOSLAVIA -- The cabinet decided to start a formal exchange of letters with Yugoslavia, a first step toward re-establishing diplomatic ties.
"Come to Yugoslavia," a wry Serbian slogan has it.
Greece was now a major investor and Yugoslavia a democratic partner.
"The goal is to make Yugoslavia a normal European country," he said.
Last week, after a visit by Belgrade's foreign minister, Moscow granted Yugoslavia a $102 million loan.
Some debts were also reduced; in Yugoslavia a number of them were even liquidated, with the government compensating the lenders.
Tito was the chief architect of the "second Yugoslavia," a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until 1991.
Croatia previously was part of Yugoslavia, a country where most of the land and property was owned by the state.
It found its most pernicious expression in Yugoslavia, a country patched together in 1943 out of six republics.
Yugoslavia — a beautiful idea that never worked — is one of several nations being invoked as possible exemplars of Syria's bloody fate; others include Lebanon and Iraq.
