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...cobbling together an all-star ensemble to record his new song What More Can I Give? He hoped, he said, to raise $50 million for the victims and survivors. This idea had a familiar ring to it. In April 1999 Jackson promised to raise millions for the Albanian children of Kosovo with the proceeds from his new song...What More Can I Give? But Jacko never recorded the song, nor did he perform it at two What More Can I Give? benefit concerts performed in Seoul and Munich in 1999, which raised a few million for big international charities. Executive...
...Washington originally claimed the plant was making chemical weapons but has quietly backed off the charge). They believe Western powers tolerated for too long--from 1992 until the NATO bombings in 1995--the ethnic cleansing by Christian Serbs of Bosnian Muslims and the later killings by Serbs of ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. Another grievance is the fact that the U.S. has done little to stop Russia's savage war against separatist Muslims in Chechnya because it considers the conflict an internal matter for Moscow. To Americans, all these matters are proof that it is a messy world out there...
...woman he escorted down. He was back at work the next day. "He said working that high up took some getting used to at first, but he found it peaceful, his escape," says his son Vincent, one of Camaj's three children. On days off, Camaj, a Roman Catholic Albanian, also liked to keep things clean and orderly around the house, mowing the grass, renovating the kitchen and, above all, spending time with his family, from whom he originally hid the nature of his risky job. When he started work at the World Trade Center in 1973, he told...
...MACEDONIA Weapons Collection ato declared the first week of its 30-day disarmament mission a success despite the death of a British soldier and an attack on U.S. troops near the border with Kosovo. The handover by ethnic Albanian rebels of more than a third of the targeted weapons paved the way for Macedonia's parliament to begin debating promised political reforms. But Macedonian nationalists blocked the entrances to the legislature in protest against the proposals, which would give greater rights to the ethnic Albanian minority...
...Well they have nothing to lose by accepting this agreement. If the war was indeed launched simply to improve the lot of the average Albanian in Macedonia, they're on track to get everything they wanted. But it will be interesting to see whether the National Liberation Army, or armed Albanian groups, disappear as the process goes forward. Because if they stick around and keep causing trouble, it will be clear that their agenda was related more to a "Greater Albania" project than to constitutional reform...