Word: kosovo
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...brief recording session until the song - featuring her heavily remixed warbling - rocketed up the Serbian charts. The fearless, seize-any-opportunity attitude that launched her short-lived pop career has made Seierstad, 33, perhaps the best-known journalist in Scandinavia. She has reported from such hot spots as Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq - picking up several languages and awards along the way. She covered the war in Iraq for an assortment of newspapers and radio and television networks. Scandinavian viewers rushed to their sets each morning to see how Seierstad, holed up in Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, had fared. "With...
...Palestinians. Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk proposes a ?trusteeship for Palestine? - Israel would withdraw from the occupied territories, which would be administered by an international body that could provide the troops to protect the sovereignty of both sides and could oversee the democratization of Palestinian political institutions. Kosovo might provide something of a precedent, with NATO troops guaranteeing security and the UN running the political administration for an interim period likely to last at least a decade. Of course such plans also have plenty of flaws, but they do point to the emerging reality that whatever succeeds...
DIED. Sergio Vieira de Mello, 55, fearless and elegant U.N. representative in Iraq, who promoted peace and nation building in such war-torn countries as East Timor, Kosovo and Cambodia; in the suicide bombing that struck U.N. headquarters, killing 23 and injuring 100; in Baghdad. After a 34-year diplomatic career, the Brazilian diplomat was seen as a possible candidate for the U.N.'s top job. "I can think of no one we could less afford to spare," eulogized U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. De Mello survived the initial blast and was heard calling from the building's debris...
...Even friends don't always agree. There are no closer allies than the U.S. and Britain, but when U.S. General Wesley Clark, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, asked the British in June 1999 to stop Russian troops from taking control of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war, London bluntly refused. (The precise words of British General Mike Jackson: "Sir, I'm not starting World...
...kind. We Americans should value the lives of our foreign brothers and sisters as much as we value our own. We started the war with Iraq at a time when there was no ongoing civil war, no uprising, no massacres. The situation was quite different in Bosnia and Kosovo: our troops ended years of bloodshed and prevented many more people from being killed, even though the conflict was not a direct threat to American interests. Laura Chiu Palo Alto...