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- WORLD, Page 50World NotesYUGOSLAVIAHumpty Dumpty
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- Making up is hard to do. Just ask Serbian president Slobodan
- Milosevic. Last week, after six days of brinkmanship during
- which he threatened to break up Yugoslavia's presidency after
- first having failed to bully it, Milosevic decided to try to
- pick up the pieces of conciliation. Milosevic, who wants a
- strong central government dominated by Serbia, has been feuding
- bitterly with the independent-minded, noncommunist governments
- of Croatia and Slovenia.
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- The latest crisis erupted when the Serbian representative
- to Yugoslavia's collective presidency temporarily stepped down
- from his seat. He was protesting the other members' refusal to
- let the army quell the country's rampant ethnic and civil
- strife, including demonstrations against Milosevic's autocratic
- rule in Serbia. The ploy, which angered Croatian and Slovenian
- members of the presidency, failed when the army decided to keep
- out of the fray. Said one Serbian opposition leader: "What was
- a drama has become a farce."
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