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Some help is beginning to flow in from overseas Albanians. At the head of these multinational fund-raising networks are men such as Switzerland-based Jashar Salihu, a thickly mustached Albanian with a sharply dimpled smile that gives him the aura of a Balkan Tom Selleck. Salihu's Homeland Calling Fund, which has offices around the globe, often channels the money it raises--by courier, in cash--to K.L.A. field commanders, who use it to buy weapons and supplies. Sometimes the flow approaches several million dollars a month, he claims...
While some top Clinton administration officials (and even Hillary) may be pining for a photo op in the Balkan war zone, they will have to get their snapshots the hard way. When Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott flew in to the Macedonian capital of Skopje a few weeks ago in one of the Air Force's Lockheed C-130's, he got the ride of his life. The problem for potential future visitors: Talbott's plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately...
Once upon a time, in a Europe not so different from our own, there was a tiny Balkan country called Syldavia. When uranium was accidentally discovered in the Zmyhlpathian Mountains, the normally peaceful Syldavians embarked upon an ambitious nuclear energy program, protected by a sinister counter-espionage organization known only by the acronym ZEPO. Work began on a top-secret nuclear powered rocket, capable of sending a heavy payload out of the earth's atmosphere. On a still summer evening, the Syldavians surprised the world by launching the X-FLR6 on a mysterious course for outer space...
...Professor Calculus, eventually touch the surface of the moon, romp about in orange space suits and endure who-knows-how-many plots to steal the spacecraft. While the plot summary may sound like standard comic book fare, the genius is in the details. In his evocation of crackpot Balkan generals, shady military organizations and political doublespeak, Herge created a fictional world that eerily resembles our own--at least from a distance...
...most of the past month Balkan watchers have gazed at the sight of refugees leaving Kosovo and been haunted by a terrible question: What happened to Kosovo's best and brightest, the doctors, diplomats and intellectuals who made up the province's leadership and who have been noticeably missing among the refugees? For example, Veton Surroi, the gruff and charismatic Kosovar delegate to the peace talks in Rambouillet, France, courageously returned to Kosovo days before the bombing began but has since disappeared...