Dobrica Cosic, 92, a novelist and Serbian nationalist who served briefly as president of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s when its breakup in the midst of sectarian war was underway, died Sunday in Belgrade. "A Time of Death," set during World War I, was credited with inspiring Serbian nationalism.
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