Word: kosovo
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...first female Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, a child of Europe's dark century, pushed and prodded the U.S. and its allies to punish the Continent's latest ethnic cleanser. It was a career-defining event: the NATO campaign to drive Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's forces out of Kosovo became known as Madeleine's War. Through 78 days of bombing, Albright kept wavering allies on board, until Milosevic finally backed down. There were no U.S. combat deaths. NATO jets failed to stop Serbs from killing 10,000 Kosovars and driving an additional 700,000 out of the province...
...20th century was the American century, the 1990s--bracketed by demonstrations of overwhelming American power in Kuwait and Kosovo--were the supreme American decade. How supreme? No other nation has exercised such military, economic, diplomatic and cultural reach since Rome. And Rome's world was little more than the Mediterranean...
...heavy bombing and blitzing of Chechnya are making it into another Kosovo. Man is stupid, isn't he? He never learns from past mistakes. It wasn't very long ago that the tragedy of Kosovo occurred or that the Bosnians were butchered. Russia must be stopped from killing innocent men, women and children. All people have a right to express themselves and to strive to gain their independence. Haven't the East Timorese made progress in obtaining their freedom? Why not force the Russians to give freedom to the Chechens? SUMAIRA DADA Karachi...
Unfortunately, the extreme nationalists carried the day with their hateful rhetoric and destructive politics, and unleashed the ethnic violence which so horrified the world in Bosnia and still bleeds today in Kosovo. Tudjman deserves respect as a head of state, and for his role in creating a new country, no mean feat under any circumstances. But he does share with many others a great responsibility for the conflagration that shattered so many millions of lives in the former Yugoslavia, and it is entirely comprehensible that the West viewed his passing with reservations...
...humanitarian organization, Hahn spent $75 in Jeremy's name to buy a dairy goat that will supply milk for a child-headed Rwandan family. Other items in the nonprofit's catalog include a birthday party for a Romanian orphanage ($30), and a survival pack for a resettling family from Kosovo ($80). The gifts are tax deductible, and gift recipients receive a card from World Vision describing the contribution made in their names...