Word: kosovo
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...success of Macedonia's insurgency may lie partly in the fact that when Albanian nationalists in Kosovo first sent a guerrilla army into the impoverished former Yugoslav republic, they found a huge pool of young Albanian men willing to join up. They were driven by a long-held sense of political and cultural grievance against the Macedonian authorities. But for many, the decision may have been made easier by the mass unemployment that left little hope of finding a job. Guerrillas always imagine themselves in heroic terms, and they have a sense of purpose that beats sitting around waiting...
...PUBLISHER: Mr. President, we're honored you brought the proposal to us. But, er, frankly, we think the asking price of $12 million is a little steep, considering... CLINTON (bristling): Considering what? This is history in the raw - Bosnia, welfare reform, Gingrich, government shutdown, Osama Bin Laden, Kosovo: years of lightning, days of drums. I'm the only one who can tell the story...
...Moreover, recent history in the region may encourage the guerillas to believe that NATO's will can be bent. The fact that most of the weapons used in this insurgency came from Kosovo is testimony that the Western alliance may not have been entirely rigorous in its disarming of the Kosovo Liberation Army or the policing of the KLA's heirs. More recently, when NATO mediators brokered an agreement requiring guerrillas in Macedonia to retreat from villages around Skopje, those insurgents carried their weapons onto buses ferrying them to a safe haven despite NATO's initial insistence that they could...
...given 45 days to adopt the political agreement expected next Monday. And during that time, NATO plans to coax the guerrillas into standing down and disarming. Of course, there are grounds to believe the guerrillas may be willing to do this: For a "Greater Albania" insurgency exported from neighboring Kosovo, they will have done extraordinarily well if they keep the deal. Most important, it will have made them an indispensable factor in the stability of Macedonian political life - this despite their habit of driving non-Albanians out of the villages they've captured. Guerrilla commanders could certainly make a case...
...keep his mind on his money and his money on his mind b) build a second, more lifelike Laura Bush robot c) bring troops home from Kosovo d) visit all 66 states e) make Jeb Bush Minister of Noogies...