YUGOSLAVIA: HARDLINER ACTING DEFENSE MINISTER

Created: 4/25/1991

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YUGOSLAVIA: Hardliner Acting Defense Minister

Army Chief of Staff Blagojc Adzic, who has been in'charge of the Defense Ministry since Minister Veljko Kadijevic was hospitalized this week,jj^ylrQ^aji^Jjary response to country's risii JH

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recently told an interviewer he still has emotional wounds from the destruction of his village in Bosnia-Herccgovina by Croatian fascists during World War II J| Mf

ithout Kadifcvic's moderating hand. Adzic will be more to react forcefully to renewed ethnic violence or the breakup of the country, but military intervention againsi Croatia or Slovenia almost certainly would risk fracturing the armed forces along ethnic lines]

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