Word: kosovo
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...military adventurism by Slobodan Milosevic have whittled Serbia's partners in the federation down to one: Montenegro, a slice of mountainous, sun-bleached rock and 680,000 inhabitants wedged between the Serbian homeland and the limpid green waters of the Adriatic Sea. Since NATO jets bombed Milosevic out of Kosovo last year, Montenegro has been accelerating its tentative steps toward independence. But it has acted with the knowledge that the Serbian President could slam the door if he genuinely sensed his power base slipping. Now, with Milosevic facing elections later this month, that time may have come. "He is preparing...
Still, ethnic divisions in Montenegro do not run so deep as they do elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia. Montenegrins, unlike Croats and Kosovo Albanians, are ethnically similar to Serbs. Support for outright independence from Serbia among ordinary Montenegrins is mixed: about 35% are for it at any cost, while a much larger proportion--including members of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic's ruling party--say they would prefer continued ties with Serbia, but under a different regime. "Time is on the side of a democratic Montenegro," says a Djukanovic ally, Save Paraca, mayor of Cetinje, the traditional heartland of Montenegrin nationalism...
...that it perceives as interference in the internal affairs of a member state, no matter how irksome, for fear that any violation of that sacrosanct principle might rebound on Beijing some day. And the permanent members certainly don't see eye to eye on issues ranging from Iraq to Kosovo, while Russia reserved its right to systematically bomb and shell civilian villages in Chechnya on the grounds that it was a domestic matter...
During a visit to East Timor last year, a man rushed up to Annan, burst into tears and began recounting everything that was happening. Annan--already overbooked and running late--stayed with him for more than an hour. In Kosovo he sat with a 100-year-old woman who could only say over and over again, "How could this happen to me at my age?" Annan is not a physically expansive man, but he held the woman's hand and listened without moving...
...force with a clear goal. That notion eroded under his successor, John Shalikashvili, who told Congress in 1995 that U.S. troops sent to Bosnia as peacekeepers would be home within a year. Five years later, 5,000 U.S. troops are still there. An additional 6,000 are patrolling nearby Kosovo. Republicans on Capitol Hill have criticized such costly deployments as dulling the U.S. military's fighting edge...