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...crimes committed in the Balkans from 1991 to '95, would testify at The Hague that he had performed his atrocities on Milosevic's orders. For years the Serbian government has denied this, but Arkan had begun to differ, telling TIME last April that he had acted under the command of the Yugoslav army - and, by implication, under the command of Milosevic...
...right moment, and that moment came last weekend when they struck in a coordinated attack that has embarrassed Russia." For weeks the Chechens had been harassing the Russians forces behind their own lines at night. Then, realizing the disarray at the top of the Russian chain of command signaled by last Friday's temporary suspension of the assault on Grozny, the Chechens on Saturday broke through Russian lines and seized a number of towns and villages near Grozny occupied by federal troops, inflicting serious casualties and making a point about the limits of Russian control...
...mess has heightened the infighting among the Russian military command. The army blamed the troops of its traditional rival, the Interior Ministry, for the lapses that led to last weekend's Chechen successes. That, together with a cacophony of mixed signals from the Kremlin over how to conduct the campaign, will further sap the already diminished morale of the Russian forces. And Russia's economic woes continue to have an impact on the situation. Says Meier, "There are still stories appearing in the media every week of Russian officers in Chechnya selling weapons to the enemy...
...thought," notes TIME military correspondent Mark Thompson. Thompson says the feelings that the military discourages entrepreneurship may also be a little misguided. "If you go out in the field there are 26-year-olds operating hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of equipment with hundreds of people under their command. There aren't many people in the private sector who can make the same claim." Maybe so, but then again, not many Microsoft employees are asked to ship off to the Balkans for half-year stretches...
...were able to provide a backdrop of history: Greece's Acropolis, Egypt's Pyramids, the Vatican, London, Versailles and Moscow's Red Square, which partied just hours after Boris Yeltsin handed a briefcase of nuclear codes to Vladimir Putin. Instead of the futurism that all these zeroes seem to command, the event was best celebrated by looking back, partially because futurism always comes off as incredibly stupid. So Seattle, Wash., a symbol for technology as well as troublemakers in sea-turtle costumes, canceled its main party, and no one really missed...