Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the panelists, since NATO first started bombing Yugoslav government installations on Mar. 24, it has become clear that NATO's leaders had made gross miscalculations in their intial approach to the crisis.
While other panelistssaid an intial buildup of ground forces might have led to a less inflamed crisis, perhaps even making Milosevic capitulate on his own under the threat of so much force, Nash had a mild demurral.
Jennifer Leaning, assisant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board member of the group Physicans for Human Rights, denied that NATO was at fault for escalatng the human rights crisis in Koso. She argud instead that Milosevic was determined to eliminate the Albanian population of Kosovo from...
Lubbers added thet he though the most positive thing to come out of this crisis was what he perceived as a shift in U.S. foreign policy to be more sensitive to humanitarian concerns.
Many say the current crisis in Kosovo first reared its head in 1989, when Kosovo, an autonomous province since its incorporation into Yugoslavia in 1912, was stripped of its autonomy by Slobodan Milosevic, the current president of Serb-dominated Yugoslavia.