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Word: dukadjin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet-flecked barrack nestled in a hollow, surrounded by flower beds full of dead tulips. A flagpole bears the Albanian flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fighting Chance | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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