He went abroad several times to parley with Sejfudin Tokic, a Muslim politician from Bosnia's other entity, the Muslim-Croat Federation.

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While studying at Indiana University, he went to Cairo for a year on a study-abroad program.

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It is especially embarrassing for Mr Simitis, an academic before he went into politics, that many Greek students are moving abroad.

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The other students later went abroad, to Israel or the U.S., leaving Yu with an odd distinction: he's probably the sole Hebrew-speaking college graduate in a country of 1.2 billion people.

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