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...thought of him last week when people were comparing the mass murders in Kosovo to the Holocaust--how inept the comparisons were, vile as Slobodan Milosevic is. The Holocaust has no analog; this is why, almost 60 years after the fact, it is still impossible to fit it into the rest of history...
...King Jr. But the poison unleashed by Hitler and his terrible contemporary Joseph Stalin survives. Not only must we still mourn, at century's end, the tens of millions who died as a result of their actions, but we can still see in many parts of the world, from Kosovo to Rwanda, murderous echoes of Hitler's theories and policies, promoted through methods of mass communication and propaganda invented by Joseph Goebbels. The essence of Hitlerism--racism, ethnic hatred, extreme nationalism, state-organized murder--is still alive, still causing millions of deaths. Freedom is the century's most powerful idea...
GEORGE W. BUSH Almost-candidate delays opinion on Kosovo strikes. Does neat impersonation of President Clinton...
...down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it's a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack buttons. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead and build the facility, which could be shared with other countries. "If they get interested months from now, we want to be ready," explains Navy Commander DAVID B. KNOX. "It's important enough that both sides are talking...
...world's most notorious ethnic cleanser. In 1991, as the former Yugoslavia broke apart, his paramilitary "Tigers" pioneered the terror tactics that are the hallmark of the Balkan wars. Last week American and British officials said he and his men have unsheathed that same vengeful violence against Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population. And if his terrible status needed any further certification, it came from Louise Arbour, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, who last Wednesday announced an indictment against Arkan for war crimes committed in the Balkans from...