Speaker. last month I had the opportunity to travel to Europe. as a member of the Armed Service Committee. when I focused much attention to the ongoing crisis in former Yugoslavia. The closer one gets and the more one learns about the situation there. the more intractable the problems in the Balkans seem. To quote Mark Twain: "The more you explain it to me. the more I dont understand it." At present. there are estimated to be over 3 million refugees in the area. and the number will spiral if the fighting spreads to the south into Kosovo and Macedonia. For almost 1.000 years. the Balkans have hosted one major historical battle after another. The Moslem Ottoman Turks advance into Europe was halted at roughly the modern CroatianSerbian border.
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