Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Belgrade's military chiefs went back to the planning board. Instead of the massive "sweep" of the original attack, they developed a wickedly clever alternative: a series of smaller sweeps against the K.L.A. that would be combined with a wholesale assault on the civilian population. This two-punch would have the double purpose of depriving the K.L.A. of ground support and permanently altering Kosovo's demographics. Cities and towns would be emptied to depopulate the province. The VJ would shell villages so the police and paramilitaries could move in to put the population to flight, torch their houses and kill...
...haired, 300-lb. Irishman named Rory Vertigan, wings the shooter, who drops the Lincoln into reverse, slams into Vertigan's car and comes out flashing metal. Vertigan, his gun empty, rushes the driver, rips his gun away, throws him to the pavement and hands the weapon to another civilian just on the scene, ordering him to stand watch while Vertigan rushes to Atkinson and sees he has been shot...
Israel killed at least eight and wounded more than 60 Lebanese in attacks on roads and power stations that left Beirut in darkness. Earlier Thursday, a Hezbollah rocket strike killed two civilians in the northern Israel town of Kiryat Shmona. Hezbollah said it had struck in retaliation for an attack by Israel?s proxy, the South Lebanon Army, which killed a Lebanese civilian. That sequence underlines the volatile situation in South Lebanon. But though bombing Beirut may be designed to put pressure on Lebanon to rein in Hezbollah, Israel knows the key to peace in the area is Syria. Still...
...least half the houses in Kosovo have been razed. There are no viable livestock or crops. Simply feeding the internally displaced Kosovars will require shipments of 1,000 tons of food daily. Because Serbian authorities destroyed most of the ethnic Albanians' personal records, KFOR and the U.N.'s civilian administrators will face the nightmarish task of sorting out those who have legal claims to land and property. The U.S. hopes to organize and oversee committees of local Kosovars to help U.N. officials coordinate the rebuilding of infrastructure, schools and clinics. But international-aid workers and peacekeepers will have to compete...
...commercial-satellite business alone, China imported $168 million worth of satellites and launch equipment last year, up from $4 million in 1994. Sales of "dual use" products--nonmilitary items with military applications--to China have long had security lapses. In 1994 McDonnell Douglas sold China machine tools for a civilian machine center in Beijing. The company learned later that they had been diverted to a military complex nearly 800 miles away. A report by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control found that from 1988 to 1998 "a large and steady flow of strategic equipment went to China with...