Word: kosovo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night--didn't win political approval until the recent NATO summit in Washington. Taking on such politically sensitive sites is fraught with peril for the allies: Belgrade ensures that the ruination caused by every misaimed bomb is televised worldwide, while the wholesale horrors wrought by Belgrade's paramilitaries in Kosovo are hidden from view. And while allied mistakes may be rare, if the war is literally brought into your living room, NATO's overall accuracy is small consolation. Inside Yugoslavia, at least, it is becoming harder for many to see the distinction between targeting civilian life-styles and targeting civilians...
...there were signs that Milosevic might be preparing his citizens for a deal with NATO. State-controlled TV led its evening broadcasts with stories about diplomatic efforts to end the war rather than about the conflict itself. More important, the Yugoslav press claimed that Serbian forces had wiped the Kosovo Liberation Army from Kosovo. While this was manifestly untrue--Western reporters visited K.L.A. soldiers inside Kosovo all week--the fact that Milosevic was touting the "victory" suggested he might be looking to declare himself a winner and end the bombing. If not, as the weather continues to clear over Serbia...
...would go--a Crossfire shouting match on the nature of Satan--we may be grateful that the conversation is flourishing in private, at the dinner table, walking to work. If we wander a while now through more haunting places, if we read the news of the latest massacre in Kosovo and see more than geopolitics at work, if we suspect that saints may sit beside us in the library and devils may drive BMWs and work in the pizza parlor and leave no telltale trail of ash as they go about their work, if we just find ourselves asking questions...
GOOD NEWS A group of musicians will record a song to benefit Kosovo refugees...
...needed a ticket, more precious than a passport out of Kosovo, and a fluorescent handstamp with the 20th Century Fox logo. Security guards, as imposing as the Fruit of Islam, eyed you through four separate checkpoints. Inside the theater, an official requested that audience members turn in anyone who might be camcording the event. George Lucas' Star Wars films may celebrate the spirit of communal rebellion, but the first critics' screening of Episode 1: The Phantom Menace in New York City last week had a sulfurous scent of the Empire about...