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May 10, 1991 | CAROL J. WILLIAMS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Federal leaders ordered the army to restore peace in Croatia after ethnic violence that has killed 20 people, but republic President Franjo Tudjman made clear Thursday that he has no intention of disarming or withdrawing his militia.
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September 6, 1992 | CAROL J. WILLIAMS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In the conspiracy-laden world of wartime Balkan politics, the only version of perplexing events that can usually be discounted is the one being publicly touted. Few believe the official line in the case of Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic, who, according to state-run media, deftly deflected a no-confidence vote by Serbian nationalists in Parliament last week with convincing arguments that they were risking further international isolation.
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March 14, 1991 | CAROL J. WILLIAMS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
An army push to impose martial law in Yugoslavia failed to win the leadership's endorsement, but the Serbian head of the federal presidency on Wednesday appeared to encourage loyal Communist generals to take matters into their own hands. Belgrade has been paralyzed for five days by tens of thousands of anti-Communist demonstrators blocking major thoroughfares and refusing to go to work or school until the Serbian regime is ousted from power.
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February 22, 1991 | CAROL J. WILLIAMS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The republic of Croatia on Thursday joined Slovenia's move to secede from Yugoslavia, stepping up the pressure at crisis talks scheduled for today in Sarajevo that seek an alternative to a violent national breakup. The Croatian Parliament nullified all federal laws in the republic and declared that federal officials in Belgrade have no right to proclaim a state of emergency without Croatia's consent. In addition, lawmakers in Zagreb bestowed immunity from arrest on Croatian government ministers.
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January 8, 1993 | Reuters
International mediators moved Thursday to have Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, a key figure in the Yugoslav crisis, attend peace talks on Bosnia this weekend. Fred Eckhard, spokesman for mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, said that the mediators are asking President Dobrica Cosic of the rump Yugoslavia if he would "consider it appropriate" to include Milosevic in his delegation.
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May 9, 1991 | CAROL J. WILLIAMS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The virtually powerless federal government appealed for peace among war-mongering radicals in Serbia and Croatia on Wednesday, but there were no signs that nationalist leaders would heed the call and halt Yugoslavia's slide into anarchy and civil war. After a third night of crisis talks, the eight-member state presidency remained deadlocked over whether to impose martial law. The Serbian-dominated federal army has deployed tanks and combat-ready troops to ethnically troubled areas.