Word: kostunica
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...think our guys tried every trick in the book to win the presidency? Think again. The post-ballot maneuverings of Al Gore and George W. Bush were nothing compared to what Slobodan Milosevic tried in Yugoslavia when, to his astonishment, an election went against him. On Sept. 24 Vojislav Kostunica, head of the center-right Democratic Party of Serbia, who had the support of a coalition of 15 opposition parties, seemed to have ended Milosevic's 13-year autocratic rule. But when the votes were counted, the state-run Federal Election Commission reported 48.22% for Kostunica, 40.23% for Milosevic...
...border from Kosovo are a sign that some Albanians won't be taking no for an answer, and may be hoping to provoke a showdown with Belgrade before the Bush Administration carries out its threat to withdraw U.S. forces from the region. The new government of President Vojislav Kostunica is prepared to restrain the Yugoslav army as long as NATO remains prepared to do curb the guerrillas, but that may put Western troops on a collision course with the Albanian nationalists. There's plenty of room for more fighting inside Kosovo and elsewhere in the region, and the furor...
...Vojislav Kostunica gained people's confidence in a peaceful, democratic and legitimate way. LYUBOMIR T. GRUYITCH Belfort, France...
...Well, the attacks in the Presevo Valley area are a campaign issue for all the parties in the Yugoslav election. Milosevic's party is using them to propagate conspiracy theories, saying it's another American plot to dismember Serbia. For President Kostunica's coalition, this has been a chance to prove that they can handle this sort of crisis in a different way than the former regime, and actually cooperate with the international community to solve the problem. The problem is that the guerrillas have no interest in giving up. And of course the wider Kosovo Albanian population, even...
...While the Western alliance blames the latest troubles on an offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army, and has stepped up its operations against the group on the Kosovo side of the border, it has also warned Belgrade against sending troops into the buffer zone. But for President Kostunica, the continued presence of hundreds of heavily armed guerrillas from Kosovo on Serbian soil killing Serbian policemen is intolerable - particularly when the Milosevic-led opposition is charging that Serbia's government is now in the hands of its enemies. Kostunica's message to NATO has been, essentially, either the West deals with...