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- WORLD, Page 55World NotesYUGOSLAVIAIn Croatia, a Call for Arms
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- Paramilitary units have sprung up in several of Yugoslavia's
- six republics in recent months, several of them armed with
- weapons smuggled from abroad. Last week a violent confrontation
- over the matter loomed after the republics ignored an order by
- the federal government in Belgrade for "illegally armed units"
- to turn in their weapons. The directive was targeted at the
- republics of Slovenia and Croatia, which are threatening to
- secede from the federation. At week's end federal troops were
- in a state of high alert. The atmosphere was especially tense
- in Croatia, where the Yugoslav army announced the arrest of a
- number of people on criminal charges. Then, on Friday, a
- compromise of sorts was reached. President Franjo Tudman agreed
- to demobilize Croatian police units, and federal authorities
- promised to return the army to "peacetime conditions." But
- neither side was certain the other would comply.
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