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Article: Divac extends a hand to war-torn homeland.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 11, 1998
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Last week before a home game, Hornets center Vlade Divac visited with two Bosnian girls, both 7 years old, in Charlotte, N.C., for heart operations unavailable in their country.
The operations are unavailable because all the major hospitals have been bombed out during the civil war the past four years. Divac, a Serbian, gave a recent update of that war-torn region once united as Yugoslavia.
"Things are great because they're not shooting anymore," he said. "People don't have money for food, they don't have warm houses because they were destroyed through the war. The economy is terrible, you have big crime - all the things that come out of war.
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