EUROPEAN BREIF (DELETED) FOR 26 OCTOBER 1987. YUGOSLAVIA: CRACKDOWN IN KOSOVO

Created: 10/26/1987

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YUGOSLAVIA: CRACKDOWN IN KOSOVO

THCCUECTIVI STATE PRESlOEHCY EARIY YESTERDAY ANNOUNCED EXTRAORDINARY" SECURITY MEASURES IN ETHNICALLY TROUBLED KOSOVO PROVINCE. INCLUDING ORDERING ELITE 'I0ERAL POLICE UNITS INTO TMl REGION FOR THE flRST TIME.OVE COMES IN THE WAKE Ol COHTIMUIMC DEMONSTRATIONS BY KOSOVO'S MINORITY SERBS AGAI'IST DI SCRN BY THE ETHNIC ALBANIAN MAJORITY DESPITEEMAND BY BELGRADE LAST MEEK THAT THE OEMOKSTRATIONS CEASE. KOSOVO'S LARGELY ALBANIAN LEADERSHIP TERM LAST w[ (I. 9ISPONDE0 TO MOERAl PRESSURE TO NATIONALISM BY PURGING SIVIRAI ALBANIAN OTlClALS.'

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