Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paris, where Clinton had a cozy bistro dinner with French President Jacques Chirac. Next it was off to Cologne for a conference of Western leaders. Clinton ended the week with a visit to the two icons of his military campaign--scratchless U.S. air power in Italy and ruined ethnic-Albanian refugees in Macedonia...
...bookends for the Clinton doctrine, which Administration officials say the President will unveil in coming months. Kosovo, the President believes, has opened the door for NATO to fire shots outside its alliance when three "ifs" are satisfied: if there's a clear moral justification for using force (such as ethnic cleansing on the scale perpetrated by Milosevic), if the trouble spot is strategically important (a pan-Balkan war would have tested Eastern Europe's stability), and if the military operation can be undertaken without exacting a heavy price. It is easy to see these ideas as a possible future...
...them. The cleansing of rich, urban centers like Pec was intended to rid the province permanently of large numbers of Kosovars and to destroy the Albanian intellectual and political culture. But Pec was also subject to a special fury. Going far beyond the brutal demands of military tactics or ethnic cleansing. Serbian forces swept through three times, wreaking destruction and expelling Albanians, including a final useless spasm of fury two weeks ago that razed most of the city and surrounding villages when Milosevic was about to surrender. "In Pec," said Astrit Hasani, "it was total vengeance...
Operation Horseshoe was a military plan designed and run under the auspices of Belgrade's general staff--as if the Joint Chiefs of Staff had planned and executed an operation to cleanse some ethnic population out of Texas. The job of actually bending the horseshoe fell to a special coordinating team that drew on both the MUP special police and Serbian paramilitaries. Many of these killers were visible in parts of Kosovo last week--sometimes stripped to the waist, heads shaved, making threatening gestures to anyone who challenged them...
...scene capable of pounding Adolph's Meat Tenderizer into the heart of the toughest marine. On a flat stretch of road overlooking the Kosovo town of Gnjilane last week, the arrival of Marine helicopters brought hundreds of ethnic Albanians joyously streaming up the rolling green hills. After nearly a week of pushing fitfully northward through Greece, Macedonia and Kosovo, the leading edge of the corps's force had finally reached its destination. And the locals--at least the Albanians who had endured more than two months of Serbian terror--wanted to make their new overlords feel welcome...