Word: halt
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According to Aznar, Serbian troops must be dislodged from Kosovo in order to halt the killing. He said international peace-keeping forces are necessary to shepherd ethnic Albanian refugees back to their homes...
Milosevic, meanwhile, is still maneuvering to settle the crisis on his terms. His unilateral cease-fire offer last week was followed by hints that the three U.S. Army pows he had would be freed if NATO agreed to an Easter bombing halt. NATO ruled out any suspension, and former Cypriot President Spyros Kyprianou, who flew to Belgrade to win the G.I.s' release, came home empty handed. In a classic example of wartime double-talk, Yugoslav government officials declared that "peace has been restored in Kosovo." Milosevic claimed to be "negotiating" for the Kosovars' safe return to their homes with ethnic...
...composition of plaque, the fatty deposit that builds up in arteries and can eventually clog them. Plaque consists of a mix of cholesterol, white blood cells and smooth muscle cells, and as it accumulates, a network of capillaries sprouts from the artery walls to nourish the cells. Could endostatin halt the growth of capillaries and starve the plaque...
...were looking for warriors. Here we got these wimps." All the same, Fritz's summary of the war against Iraqis is sickening in its glorification of the brutality exercised on what he admits to be toothless Iraqi military: "The mission was proof of the last superpower's capacity to halt catastrophe when it summoned the sufficient courage...At no time in history had one ideology and one nation been given such a clear path to influencing the flow of historic events, to halting evil on a historic scale...
...Milosevic's initial "peace offer" came in the form of a "unilateral cease-fire" in Kosovo. On April 6 Belgrade announced a six-day halt in military and police action in Kosovo "against the terrorist organization" (the Kosovo Liberation Army). Milosevic claimed to be ready to work with moderate ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova -- once NATO's preferred negotiating partner -- toward a settlement allowing for the return of refugees with the assistance of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the Red Cross. A temporary self-government agreement for each of Kosovo's communities would form the basis...