Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fate of the ethnic Albanians living inside the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Last Saturday, after jetting back to France, Albright hiked up and down stairs for nine hours in the drafty 14th century castle in which talks were under way, carrying proposals between hard-line Serb negotiators and Kosovo guerrilla chieftains. By day's end, she had moved the Albanians, including key negotiator Veton Surroi, close to accepting the NATO plan, but the Yugoslavs were still stonewalling. "They are not engaging," she told TIME in an exclusive interview. Her plan, aides say, was to secure agreement from the Albanian side...
...pathetic scene, captured on a Turkish intelligence-service video, contrasted sharply with the macho image of the mustachioed Marxist guerrilla who has headed the long Kurdish insurgency that has left some 30,000 soldiers, rebels and civilians dead. But lest anyone imagine that the P.K.K.'s capacity for troublemaking ended with Ocalan's surprise seizure in Nairobi, his followers responded with a wave of protests across Europe and the Middle East. The violence reached its bloody climax in Berlin, where Kurdish militants burst into the Israeli consulate and security guards opened fire, killing three and wounding...
...vagabond, the Syrians in October dispatched Ocalan to Athens, then to Moscow. Five weeks later, following Russia's refusal to grant him refugee status, he flew to Rome and requested political asylum. In the face of Turkish diplomatic and economic threats, Italy refused and on Jan. 16 sent the guerrilla back to Russia...
...which may be at an end following Wednesday's U.N. undertakings over the trial -- has been the cornerstone of Washington's containment policy. "The Lockerbie issue kept sanctions in place, allowing the U.S. to very successfully box in Ghaddafi," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He'd been financing guerrilla groups all over the world during the '80s, but now he's hardly a factor...
Last Thursday marked what may be Colombia's best chance to avert a hellish future. At the southern town of San Vicente del Caguan, inside the jungle realm of the biggest and fiercest Marxist guerrilla group--the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)--the rebels and the government of President Andres Pastrana Arango began the country's third attempt at peace in 17 years. But the fiesta of tropical bands, stuffed pig and beer, attended by luminaries like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief...