Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Milosevic into acquiescence wasn't an option as long as his enemies played hard to get. Says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "While the U.S. and the international community are playing down the extent of the failure at Rambouillet, Milosevic is the only winner here because the refusal of the ethnic Albanians to sign has allowed him to wriggle out undamaged...
...call made by one UC student leader, Amanda Channing, for "not just ethnic diversity, but diversity of thought," cited approvingly by your editorial, it seems to me somewhat ironic and disingenuous. I applaud the statement itself--it's what conservatives have been saying for decades; but I suspect what Ms. Channing really wants is a Board of Regents characterized not by diversity of thought, but by uniformity of thought in agreement with...
...NATO peacekeeping force of 28,000. Red lines are even being drawn on maps. American G.I.s would control a sector of Kosovo. British, French, German and Italian forces would carve up other sectors. But no NATO soldiers will set foot in the province if the Serbs and ethnic Albanians there don't agree to end a yearlong war that has left more than 1,500 dead and 250,000 homeless. And so far, that...
Negotiators for the two sides have been locked up in a 14th century castle in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris, under orders from European foreign ministers to come up with an autonomy agreement in two weeks for the province's 2 million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians. But after a week of bluster and posturing, almost nothing has been decided. The Serbs refused even to talk about the text of a possible agreement, engaging instead in a series of diplomatic maneuvers that did nothing but kill time. About the only thing the two delegations could agree on was that...
...European diplomats brokering the talks believe they can negotiate a temporary autonomy that gives ethnic Albanians control over most governmental functions in the province. The biggest hurdle is persuading Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw all his special police from the province and let NATO soldiers keep order there for three years while Kosovo's final status is negotiated...