Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...messy situation in Kosovo by brokering a peace deal," says Meier. "Whether or not the IMF and other Western institutions come through with money for Russia depends a lot less on the outcome of a Duma vote on economic reform than on the outcome of the Kosovo conflict." In other words, the most important Russian negotiators in the bid to get Western financial aid may be the ones in armored personnel carriers at Pristina Airport...
...Mexico ambassadorship because Weld hailed from the GOP?s moderate wing, and Helms doesn?t like his kind. In Holbrooke?s case, it?s just another swipe at Clinton, though the official reason is "ethical baggage." Never mind that Holbrooke has been cleared of all wrongdoing in some conflict-of-interest confusion when he was freelancing as an administration envoy -- or that he deservedly enjoys broad bipartisan support in the Senate. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the crotchety Helms is the bottleneck for all overseas nominations, and he promises a third-degree on everything from ethics...
...political spoils of the Kosovo conflict are few, which may be why competition to claim them is fierce. With the Yugoslav army and Serb civilians pouring out of the province, armed KLA units are moving quickly to take control of as much of Kosovo as they can get their hands on. Although this supposedly was precisely the scenario the peace agreement was designed to avoid, NATO?s ambiguous relationship with the KLA -- which was a de facto ally against the Serbs until two weeks ago -- and the movement?s political agenda may have made it inevitable. "NATO knew from...
...because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan's spokesman attributed the champ's reluctance to compete to a dispute between Nakajima and TV Tokyo, his onetime sponsor. Nathan's has called for Jesse Jackson to intervene, but the thorny conflict rages. Nakajima would not discuss the dispute or how it affects his plans, except to say, "If or when I go, I'd like to enjoy the event without any ill feeling...
...agent of the U.S., which we openly term an enemy of the Muslim world. So let the U.N. assume responsibility for solving the crisis. We don't want to see any more pictures of war-torn Kosovo and the miserable plight of its people. We want the conflict properly settled soon. ALIYA SHAHNOOR AMEEN Chittagong, Bangladesh...