1.   The feud is steeped in bitter Balkan history.

2.   At a moment of peace, he chose to devote almost all his speech to an account of Balkan history that dwelt heavily on division and violence.

3.   He challenged the widespread impression that Balkan history is nothing but a chronicle of religious warfare.

4.   Indeed, senior politicians cited Balkan history as a particular reason for caution, since Nazi forces allied with Croats committed atrocities against Serbs there.

5.   John Fine Jr., a professor of Balkan history at the University of Michigan, is one critic of U.S. efforts in Bosnia.

6.   Loss of life proportionally five to seven times that of the principal belligerents colors Balkan history and haunts the Serbs still.

7.   Local in nature but international in consequence, it was the dynamic that drove Balkan history.

8.   Recent Balkan history shows that such elite troops can easily change hats.

9.   The Dayton Daily News, in a special supplement, tried Wednesday to explain that Balkan history, distant and not so distant.

10.   They only knew what they read in the paper or saw on TV, and in both the sense of Balkan history was breathtakingly nonexistent.