Word: hashim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hashim Thaci is on unfamiliar ground. The Albanian guerrilla leader, once the bane of Serbian forces in Kosovo's hinterlands, has arrived triumphant in Pristina and is undergoing his first rite of passage as an aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given...
...have no mercy for those people," he said in a cool and determined voice. Then, remembering his audience, he added, "They will face the court and justice immediately." In the Balkans, just about everyone calls himself a democrat. It will be some time before we know just what kind Hashim Thaci intends to become...
...announced the promise of peace. There was little rejoicing. "Our faith rests only with the K.L.A.," said Refic Dema, 24, referring to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Dema, the sole member of his family to survive a massacre at the village of Zhegra in eastern Kosovo, said, "If [K.L.A. leader Hashim] Thaci says it's a good deal, then I will try to smile...
...trying to organize the operation from within." A few key officials who escaped in the first days of the war have been shuttling around Europe, raising money and working to keep NATO's interests aligned with their own. Some prominent Kosovar leaders, such as K.L.A. chief Hashim Thaci, are in and out of Kosovo. Others, however, are missing. Polyglot publisher Surroi, with friends both inside and outside Kosovo, is particularly conspicuous by his absence. His fate, like that of other key players in Kosovo, remains a mystery...
Boasting two victories, captain Bert Bangayan led the men's team (1-5). Adding the other two wins were sophomore Eugene Cha and freshman Hashim Mooppan...