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In Yugoslavia, Rising Ethnic Strife Brings Fears of Worse
Civil Conflict
By DAVID BINDER, Special to the New York Times
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia "Portions of southern Yugoslavia have reached such a state of ethnic friction that
Yugoslavs have begun to talk of the horrifying possibility of ''civil war'' in a land that
lost one-tenth of its population, or 1.7 million people, in World War II.
The current hostilities pit separatist-minded ethnic Albanians against the various
Slavic populations of Yugoslavia and occur at all levels of society, from the highest
officials to the humblest peasants."