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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...located with standard mine-detection gear. The allies are using mine plows and remote-controlled vehicles to detonate such mines before sending troops in. The Serbs, however, are clever about planting underground bombs. There's concern that they've done what they did in Bosnia, trip wiring antitank mines to antipersonnel mines so a smaller mine explodes when a bigger mine is moved, or daisy chaining mines so that triggering one detonates an entire minefield. Though the Serbs have turned over maps of their minefields to NATO officials, no one wants to walk onto a field that Yugoslav generals "forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping The Peace: Boots on the Ground | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...shady middlemen who see the war as a perfect chance for price gouging. Says a spokesman: "An AK-47 normally costs $100, but we always end up paying at least double." That is nothing compared with the cost for mortars and other ammunition, let alone for the high-tech antitank weapons the K.L.A. at Kosare needs. New K.L.A. recruits are flea-market soldiers, carrying illegally acquired (or stolen) guns and identified by K.L.A. shoulder patches made in Germany. Heavier weapons come largely from East European countries--including the occasional Serbian commander willing to sell for cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fighting Chance | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...carve out "safe havens." But the idea carries such a negative image after enclaves set up in Bosnia--like Srebrenica--failed so tragically to protect civilians. Others suggested turning the war over to a proxy army of K.L.A. fighters outfitted by the West with effective Stinger missiles and antitank rockets. But U.S. and NATO officials feared that arming one side would only widen the war and destabilize the entire region. By now it may simply be too late: on Friday Serb officials were crowing that they would finish mopping up the shattered rebel force in a couple of days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Hell | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...Authority will be better equipped than they were for their four-day mini-war with Israel in September 1996. In that encounter they had only the small arms permitted them under the peace accords. Since then they have been smuggling in larger, forbidden weapons including, Palestinian officials say, mortars, antitank missiles and even, according to one source, a score of Katyusha rockets with a range of 12 miles. Authorities in Israel assume that several armor-piercing heavy machine guns recently stolen from Israeli army stores are in Palestinian hands. According to Israeli intelligence, the Palestinians have developed a formal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Ready For War | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...harsh words for President Clinton, who has refused to sign the treaty until it makes an exception for U.S. land-mine use along the uneasy border between North and South Korea, where 37,000 American soldiers are stationed, and for the use of antipersonnel mines in conjunction with antitank mines. Said Williams: "I think it's tragic that President Clinton does not want to be on the side of humanity." And she found it odd that he had not yet called to congratulate her. "I think if the President can call the winner of the Super Bowl, he should call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KUDOS FOR A CRUSADER | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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