Article: Doomed by an ancient disease. (conflict in the former Yugoslavia)

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U.S. News & World Report
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May 17, 1993
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Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa, scimitar of the Ottoman Empire, stands at the head of a huge Turkish army before the gates of Vienna. The capital of the Habsburg Empire lies at Islam's mercy. But Mustafa blinks: He cannot press home his advantage. The Turkish siege falls apart. Europe sighs with relief. The last Ottoman threat to Christian Europe's heartland is over. The year is 1683. Thereafter, Ottoman hegemony recedes south to a line in the Balkans - a line curving through territory that some 2 1/2 centuries later would become Yugoslavia.

If they are to have any chance at all of ending the killing and "cleansing" in what now is the former Yugoslavia, the ...

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