Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...differences, the fact that NATO appears unable or unwilling to stop terror attacks on the territory?s remaining Serb population creates fertile ground for Milosevic. "Kosovar Serbs are frightened because nobody?s protecting them from these systematic, well-organized attacks and the culprits are never caught," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The alliance lacks a strategy," he adds, "and it?s fast heading for a situation where its choices are either to accept partition of Kosovo or to accept the ethnic cleansing of Serbs...
...variety of possible candidates makes it difficult for the party to establish a coherent platform. There is even uncertainty in the party on budget policy and paying down the national debt, previously one of the party's most central platforms. Buchanan, for one, wants a tax cut that exceeds the already-irresponsible Republican proposal vetoed by President Clinton last week...
...unnecessary intrusion" into its internal affairs, and later, Russian investigators visiting Washington claimed they had not been shown any evidence supporting the allegations. (U.S. investigators said they showed the officials "irrefutable evidence" of billions of dollars laundered, including hundreds of documents tracing the transfer of money from Russia's Central Bank through U.S. banks...
...Investigators in Italy, meanwhile, are having better luck with some smaller fish than the Central Bank. They have uncovered Italy-based Russian racketeers in the northeast town of Rimini who have been sending out their financial laundry to the Bank of New York, according to the New York Times ? the Italians, apparently, are not relying on help from Moscow. It?s not hard to imagine the reason for that Russian stonewall; when half a nation?s economy is controlled by organized crime, it?s inevitable that government officials ? including those at the Central Bank ? have a finger...