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| Wild Card Ivanisevic Upsets Kuerten at Masters Cup Kafelnikov Rallies to Beat Ferrero By PAUL TAIT .c Reuters SYDNEY, Australia (Nov. 13) -- Goran Ivanisevic dented Gustavo Kuerten's hopes of claiming the year-end top ranking when he outlasted the French Open champion to win their Masters Cup round robin match 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 Tuesday. Ivanisevic described the win as his best since his extraordinary Wimbledon victory last June because he overcame Kuerten by playing his natural serve and volley game instead of being lured into a baseline battle with the Brazilian. "Yeah, it was, especially because of the way I played, I know I don't have a chance if I stay back and rally with him so every chance I had I tried to hit a winner or come in, don't give him any rhythm," Ivanisevic said. Ivanisevic's win came after Olympic champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov produced a blistering seven-game blitz to beat Juan Carlos Ferrero 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 in a much scrappier opening match of the Ken Rosewall Group. Ivanisevic is only 13th in the Champions Race which Kuerten heads and made it into the elite eight-man tournament by virtue of his Wimbledon victory, which he achieved as a wild card. But it was as if Ivanisevic was atop the Champions Race and not Kuerten as he raced through the first set in only 25 minutes. "Maybe it's the lucky wild card thing again," Ivanisevic said. The eighth-seeded Croatian completely dominated the early stages of the match, pounding Kuerten with heavy serves and unplayable forehands. He stumbled as he closed in on an unlikely victory but regained his composure, serving his 28th ace to set up match point and then punching a backhand volley crosscourt on the next point to finish an intense match in one hour and 51 minutes. It was one of those days when the "good Goran" turned up to play -- the Croatian's way of explaining the two sides of his volatile nature. Ivanisevic's power game helped him to break Kuerten's serve in the second game of the first set and he claimed another break six games later when he rifled a backhand service return past a bewildered Kuerten. Kuerten served solidly in the second set but was never able to settle into his baseline routine against Ivanisevic, whose serve regularly topped 118.1 miles per hour. The Brazilian kept plugging away and at least managed to keep his own serve on track during the second set to force the tiebreak, which he won 7-2. Ivanisevic later said he was suffering from a sore toe, which he stubbed in the shower of his Sydney hotel last week, but he put the pain aside much as he has with the shoulder injury that has dogged the latter stages of his enigmatic career. Despite being upset by a handful of line calls which threatened to bring out "bad Goran," Ivanisevic held his nerve to close out the match in front of a disappointingly small crowd of about 3,000 in the 17,800 capacity SuperDome. Kuerten came into the tournament with indifferent form, losing six of his eight matches since the U.S. Open. Kuerten said Ivanisevic's serve was the difference but admitted that he is becoming frustrated with his slump. "It just shows the way I've been playing. It's tough for me when I'm not playing well," he said. Kuerten's loss opens the way for challengers Lleyton Hewitt and Andre Agassi. The Brazilian leads the Champions Race by 48 points from Hewitt, with Agassi another 39 points adrift in third. Hewitt and Agassi meet in a crucial round-robin match Wednesday. Either player can afford to drop one round-robin match and still have the chance to beat Kuerten for the top spot. Australia's Hewitt beat Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean in the John Newcombe Group on Monday, while Agassi downed Hewitt's Davis Cup teammate Pat Rafter. Kafelnikov appeared to be headed for a heavy defeat in an error-prone opening to his first round robin match, gifting Spanish baseliner Ferrero a succession of easy points. Kafelnikov complained about the height of the net at the start of the second set. Match officials found it to be five centimeters too high and the net was adjusted during a short delay. From that point on Kafelnikov's serve and forehand began finding their range and he strung together a match-turning sequence of seven straight games against fourth seed Ferrero, who is playing in the $3.7 million tournament for the first time. Submitted by Katarina Tepesh Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| HEADLINES, Thursday, November 15, 2001 Source: Dnevni List, November 14, 2001 Armed SFOR soldiers raid the HTV Mostar and Croat Radio Mostar premises Yesterday at 10 o'clock, members of the SFOR unit of a mixed composition raided into the premises of the Croat Radio Mostar and HTV Mostar. Allegedly, according to them, it is about an inspection, which was announced earlier and which is a part of the mandate of the SFOR Mission in BiH. French and Spanish soldiers were armed with Heckler rifles, and they were communicating through handsets. Weapons talk The appearance of armed SFOR members frightened the personel of two media outlets and introduced considerable unrest among Croatian journalists. All of this reminded of the earlier military actions taken against EROTEL, Hercegovacka Banka, Mostar's Municipal Councli, and others. However, this time SFOR's target was the Croatian media and journalists, whose rights were trampled on in the most brutal was by the 'Peace Stabilization Forces'. According to one of the officers, who were standing at the entrance of the building and who wanted to remain anonymous, SFOR conducted the 'inspection' in accordance with the order from the CRA from Sarajevo and in coordination with their commanding officer in the Ortijes military base near Mostar. According to Josef Macrey, the SFOR Spokesperson in Sarajevo, this is about "a routine, announced control, whose purpose is to verify whether the communication equipment of these media outlets is in accordance with the Dayton Peace Agreement". To our question whether he is aware of the fact that the Dayton Peace agreement was signed six years ago whether he is aware of the fact that the DPA was signed 6 years ago, we did not get a satisfactory answer, except that obligations from the Agreement are being implemented. The CRA is responsible?! We contacted the CRA and received an answer from Amela Odobasic, who told us, after checking, that the CRA did not issue any order for the raid of these two media outlets. However, according to well-informed sources, close to the CRA, it is claimed that the CRA, "after a series of gathered information from viewers, and others, the CRA decided to suggest to SFOR to conduct an inspection, which is part of the SFOR mandate for BiH, in which they can also execute unannounced inspections Fear and uneasiness To our question whether the CRA will protect the Croat electronic media, Mrs. Odobasic told us that the CRA can only suggest to SFOR not to be violent towards the staff and journalists, but that SFOR inspections are a part of their mandate. We received a few statements, from journalists who requested to remain anonymous, which stated that the SFOR soldiers were not violent, they were polite, but their showing up fully armed scared and disturbed them, because that isn't an appropriate manner for conducting any sort of inspection. Successful "Inspection According to Vlatko Menix, the Head of the HTV Mostar, the SFOR officers behaved decently and the inspection was executed successfully. Tomislav Mazal, the Head of the Croat Radio Mostar, stated that the inspection in his media outlet was executed without any problems and the SFOR soldiers behaved decently. SFOR breached Dayton? Many people believe that the DPA was severely violated by this raid of military forces into premises of the media outlets, and that this case should be examined exclusively because of such behavior of the SFOR. Also, a few International Charters on Rights and Freedom of Media have been violated and nothing, including the SFOR and its mandate, can justify this. One TV technician told us: "'At the moment, when I was working on a TV report, an armed solder showed up at the door and I was so scared that I did not know how to behave. I was only thinking as to how to leave the premises, but I was not allowed to, at first. Later on they allowed me to leave the room." A journalist, who wanted to remain anonymous, stated: "I have never experienced such violent act and if the price of freedom is my life, then I will pay the price.' From foreign press office: fpo-mostar@pincom.net distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| The victory of the Liberal/National Party Coalition in Australia has been acknowledged, for a third term, in a victory speech tonight by the Hon. John Howard. I am sure that I am not alone amongst most Croatian people in congratulating him, and hope that the Croatian community in Australia can do its utmost to develop good relations with members of the Coalition. The victory of the Coalition in Australia will help to assure that the Coalition Against Terror in the world remains on a steady, united foundation, and in addition, it will assure that there is a balanced power sharing coexistence amongst democratic nations. In addition, the failure to win the seat of Calwell Victoria Australia by the independent Dr. A. Theophanous (former ALP-Socialist-Left faction) should come as a wake up call for the Croatian community leaders in Melbourne Australia. For far too long Croatian lobbyists in Australia, at least in Victoria, have been openly supporting only the opposition to the elected government. How can this be in the best interests of Croatia, or HDZ? regards to everyone, Jean W. Marinovic. distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Istria is in Croatia, yes. Most of us who are from Istria are Croatians. Does our Croatian government think that? If it does, why than don't they hire istrians to visible and important positions within Croatian government? Why was there not one istrian here in the United States of America, in the past 10 years, who held the position of Croatian Ambassador or Croatian Consul? I do not think that they have on their promises even cleaning ladies who are istrians, maybe one or two secretaries in 10 years in the whole USA. Maybe. Maybe is time for us Croatian Americans to do something about this? Mario Viscovich distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| This appeared in yesterday's NY Times. We should all congratulate Mr. Maras of the Croatian embassy for speaking up at the press conference. Also, note how this article desribes Jasenovac being set up by the "Republic of Croatia." It is also "one of the . . . most brutal camps" of WWII (one wonders how anyone can determine that). I think this article again points to what I have been urging: that the Croatian govt must obtain a PR firm to deal with these kinds of issues. This story, for ex., should have been "spinned" as how the bad Serbs stole items from Jasenovac and took them to Banja Luka. Moreover, I have read some estimates concerning the large number of ethnic Croat victims at the camp (among others, Vladko Macek was a prisoner there for some period of time). This was recognized in the press release of the US Holocaust Museum but not in this story. That is something that should have been emphasized as well and, again, a PR firm would have known how to have done that. Further, the most authoritative numbers that I read, compiled by Ivo Goldstein, show approx. 80,000 victims - here again, presumably for dramatic effect, Museum officials upped the number by 20,000, or 25%. Based on my past experience, we can argue till we're blue in the face that the number was overstated without convincing the newspapers. I also note the article states that 300,000 Serbs died throughout Croatia. This is inaccurate as this number also includes, I beleive, those who died in BH as well. Mr. Maras' points are well taken - this number includes combatants (i.e., Chetniks and Partisans). Moreover, as we all know, President Mesic was in Israel 2 weeks ago and as far as I am aware a story about his visit appeared in only one American paper, the LA Times, and in no Jewish-American publications (at least not yet). Presumably, a PR firm would have handled the story in such a manner to assure greater coverage of that event. I will share one point which caused me some concern during my meeting with President Mesic and Foreign Minister Picula. At least one member of the delegation did not beleive me when I said that the Croatian flag was consistently presented as a fascist/Ustashe flag in the US press. The argument was that if that were the case neither Israel nor the US would allow such a flag to be flown. This was a major point made by American and UK reporters during the war years. As we saw in the LA Times article, this continues to be a problem. The answer to this issue is very simple - the "sahovnica" coat of arms was also used by the Communists as part of the coat of arms of the SR Croatia. There's no way the Communists would have allowed a supposedly fascist symbol to be used. John Kraljic Documenting a Death Camp in Nazi Croatia By NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - Officials of the United States Holocaust Museum said today that they had discovered and preserved a cache of decaying documents and artifacts from one of the lesser-known but most brutal concentration camps of World War II. The camp, known as Jasenovac, was operated in Croatia by the Ustasha, the Nazi puppet government. The artifacts were found deteriorating in a building in Banja Luka in the Serbian part of Bosnia last year, officials said. Peter Black, the museum's chief historian, told reporters today that Jasenovac was crude in comparison to the industrialized Nazi extermination camps like Auschwitz. Mr. Black said there were no gas chambers or crematories, so prisoners were murdered one by one with axes, guns, knives or prolonged torture. Bodies were buried or thrown into the adjacent Sava River. Jasenovac (pronounced ya-SEN- oh-vatz), actually a complex of five camps about 60 miles from the Croatian capital, Zagreb, has been little studied in the West, but the history has long resonated in the modern Balkans, where analysts and historians have debated about how much of the region's violence may be traced to historic ethnic enmities. Mr. Black estimated that nearly 100,000 people had been killed in Jasenovac, the largest number being Serbs, followed by Jews and Gypsies. The camp was established by the Republic of Croatia to eliminate anyone who was not an ethnic Croatian. Mr. Black said a combination of factors, including the reluctance of officials to agree on what happened, had led to its history's remaining largely hidden from scholars until now. The collection includes 2,000 photographs, many of atrocities; tens of thousands of papers; and thousands of artifacts, like inmate crafts. Sara J. Bloomfield, director of the Holocaust Museum, said the project to save the documents and artifacts was especially significant because of the cooperation of the government of Croatia, whose history is cast in a poor light, as well as the governments of Serbia and Bosnia. Ms. Bloomfield said the governments had cooperated despite "the continuing sensitivity of all sides to this collection." That sensitivity was on display moments after the museum's presentation today when a diplomat from Croatia, Mate Maras, objected to the assertion by museum officials that more than 300,000 Serbs had died at the hands of the Ustasha throughout Croatia in World War II. Mr. Maras complained to Ms. Bloomfield and Mr. Black that the number was misleading because it included what he said were combatants throughout Croatia and thus was comparable to the hundreds of thousands of Croats killed in the war. Mr. Maras said that while he thought the assertions of the museum's personnel about Serb casualties were misleading, he agreed it was "a good day for Croatia to open up these sad pages of our history." Copies of the collection have been made and will be maintained at the Holocaust Museum and in Israel, officials said. The original collection will be returned to a museum in Croatia, where it will be put on display at the site of the Jasenovic complex, officials said. NOTICE: This e-mail and the attachments hereto, if any, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. It is intended only for use by the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and the attachments hereto, if any, is strictly prohibited. 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| ZAVRSENA VJEZBA AMERICKE I HRVATSKE RATNE MORNARICE ROGOZNICA, 14. studenoga - Nakon sto je zbog nevremena odgodjena u utorak, hrvatsko-americka pomorska vojna vjezba SURFEX 2001. odrzana je u srijedu u vodama od otoka Zirja do Drvenika. Kapetan bojnog broda Marin Stosic, nacelnik Stozera flote Hrvatske ratne mornarice, koji je zapovijedao hrvatskim snagama, ocijenio je da je vjezba uspjesno izvedena. U prvom dijelu vjezbe hrvatske i americke snage manevrirale su u uskom obalnom dijelu mora koje je tesko za navigaciju velikih brodova, kao sto je americki ratni brod USS Ross. U drugom dijelu izveden je kombiniran raketno-zrakoplovno-topnicki udar na krijumcarski brod. U trecem dijelu bilo je predvidjeno zajednicko bojno gadjanje hrvatskih i americkih pomorskih snaga. No, to nije uspjelo jer se u dva pokusaja ispuhala pokretna meta "Tomatokiller" za koju su bili zaduzeni Amerikanci. Ipak, istaknuo je Stosic, uspjesnosu provedene pripreme za bojno gadjanje, a rekao je da ne zna zasto je zakazala pokretna meta. Vjezbom je zapovijedao americki casnik, kapetan bojniog broda Kevin Quinn, dok mu je zamjenik bio kapetan Stosic. "Hrvatska je zahvaljujuci i ovoj vjezbi korak dalje u ispunjavanju NATO-ovih standarda", rekao je Allen Robert Joseph, kapetan korvete i americki vojni izaslanik u Hrvatskoj. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hrvatski Informativni Centar Tel: 385 1 / 4846 100 Meduliceva 13/II Fax: 385 1 / 4848 634 10.000 Zagreb E-Mail: vijesti@hic.hr REPUBLIKA HRVATSKA http://www.hic.hr/hrvatski/vijesti/ http://www.hic.hr/hrvatski/vijesti/arhiv/ Audio: http://www.hic.hr/radio/ Pretplate: vijesti@hic.hr http://www.hic.hr/hrvatski/vijesti/servis.htm distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| INTERVIEW-Brovina goes from jail to Kosovo presidency bid By Fredrik Dahl PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Just over a year ago, Flora Brovina was in a grim Serbian prison. Now she is campaigning to become president of Kosovo. And the ethnic Albanian human rights activist, doctor and poet is delivering a message of tolerance and co-existence, of reconciliation rather than revenge. Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority hopes, and many minority Serbs fear, that a general election on Saturday will move the U.N.-governed Yugoslav province closer to independence. Brovina, candidate of the Democratic Party of Kosovo of former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci, makes clear independence is also her aim but vows to try and break down ethnic barriers if elected, saying Kosovo belongs to all its people. "I personally insist that all citizens must be equal and not divided into a first and a second class," she told Reuters, using words which are in tune with international officials hoping the vote will foster a more multi-ethnic Kosovo. Arrested during NATO's 1999 bombing to end Belgrade's repression of Kosovo's Albanians, Brovina was convicted of associating with separatist guerrillas and jailed for 12 years on terrorism charges in a trial widely condemned as a sham. She was released after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic as Yugoslav president in a popular revolt last year. APPEAL TO SERBS Brovina has urged Kosovo's beleaguered Serbs to cast their ballots for the new 120-seat assembly to be set up after the November 17 election, which in turn will elect a president, arguing the vote is a great opportunity for them too. "Serbs are citizens of Kosovo and they have to be part of Kosovo," Brovina, blonde, elegantly dressed in black and showing no trace of her difficult 19 months in jail, said in an interview late on Monday. Popular among many Kosovo Albanians, she will still face an uphill struggle in the race for the largely symbolic post of president against veteran political leader Ibrahim Rugova. Brovina insisted that despite her time in prison and atrocities committed agai nst her people, she did not seek revenge. Serbs too were victims of Milosevic, she said. Many Serbs oppose the vote, arguing it will be a step to independence for Kosovo and also that their living conditions are so miserable they should boycott the poll in protest. Brovina said independence was inevitable, a "life or death" issue for Kosovo, but she said it would be positive for Serbs as well as it would lead to better times for the impoverished economy. Fearing Albanian reprisals, about 180,000 Serbs fled Kosovo after government forces withdrew following 11 weeks of NATO bombing. Many of those remaining, numbering about 100,000, live in enclaves protected by heavily armed NATO-led peacekeepers. Brovina, 51, vowed to fight such "ghettos." "An independent Kosovo will guarantee the minorities equality," she said. But Brovina accused Belgrade's new leadership of continuing to manipulate the province's Serbs. Milosevic may be awaiting trial at the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague for atrocities in Kosovo, but "Milosevic's system is still in power in Belgrade," she said. 05:15 11-13-01 Submitted by Katarina Tepesh Copyright 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Mr. Adam Rendulic asked me to see if anyone could provide the assistance in obtaining the artificial knee (prothesis) for the war invalid from Vukovar - his name is Vlado Krpan, 47. Please, be kind and respond either to me (astazg@aol.com), or directly to Mr Rendulic (his e-mail address is below.) Thank you in advance, Asta Adam Rendulic / Lovas E - mail: pz-lovas@vk.tel.hr op-ed I send a message to Heather Mills, from England too. She assisted many people so far. Nenad Bach distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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| Dear Nenad: We have many slots available in the tourist industry here in Dubrovnik for summer 2002 starting 1st of May 2002 and going until the end of Oct. we are looking for folks with a Croatian folklore back ground who would like to put their hard earned skills to use professionally in an international setting. Please go to www.lindjo.com and then click to Seminars heading then scroll down to Summer Work Programes for job requirements. The pay is tax expempt for US and Canadian citizens. Thanks for posting this. Nikola Petrish www.lindjo.com distributed by CROWN (Croatian World Net) - CroworldNet@aol.com |
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