Word: bosnian
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...used the contrast between sun-warmed tanks and cooler desert sand to help pilots target the tanks with infrared equipment. How well that will work in the forested Balkans remains to be seen. But retired Navy Admiral Leighton Smith--who ordered NATO's first-ever bombing raid, against Bosnian Serb targets in 1994--thinks the tactic may be deadly for pilots: "It would be absolutely stupid...
Albright is convinced that thousands needlessly lost their lives in the Bosnian civil war because the West dithered. She vowed not to repeat that mistake in Kosovo. But by last month it seemed that Washington was going to do just that. The unarmed peace monitors who had been sent to the province watched helplessly as the slaughter continued. Albright, nervous about the quickly deteriorating truce, persuaded President Clinton and Defense Secretary William Cohen to deploy peacekeepers, then cajoled European foreign ministers into giving Milosevic a two-week deadline to accept a peace agreement or face NATO bombing. On a trip...
...sorry. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other thriving German companies are now facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology that Japan...
Slobodan Milosevic has good reason to be paranoid. NATO on Wednesday swooped down on the Bosnian countryside to arrest General Radislav Krstic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb unit that massacred 8,000 Muslim men in the U.N. "safe haven" of Srebrenica in 1995. "Even though he was on leave in Serbia at the time, Krstic would have had to authorize the killings," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. "He'll also be able to answer questions over Milosevic's involvement in the most important massacre...
...Bunel is the second French officer exposed for passing secrets to the Serbs -- in April Major Herve Gourmelon was found to have tipped off Bosnian Serbs about planned NATO action. "The Pentagon has had a really jaundiced view of the French for a long time," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. The U.S. has in the past flatly rejected French demands for control of NATO's Southern Command, which has put the process of France's integration into NATO on hold. "Now," says Sanction, "that process will go into the deep freeze...