Word: macedonias
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...outright independence is the only acceptable solution. Milosevic shows no willingness to countenance that and has stalled on negotiations in order to launch his crackdown. The West frets that escalation of the conflict could lead to a Balkan war wider and more destabilizing than Bosnia's, drawing in Albania, Macedonia and even Greece. Holbrooke's aim is to cajole everyone to the bargaining table...
...empty-handed from Kosovo this week: Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian president, is emboldened by NATO's hesitance to conduct air strikes. "Holbrooke's mission failed because Milosevic didn't feel enough pressure," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "NATO's political will is visibly weakening. Greece and Macedonia have come out against military action, and France is insisting on taking the matter before the U.N. That, together with Russia's support, has taken the heat off Milosevic...
...MACEDONIA, Ohio: The 20 or so disgruntled workers who walked out of McDonaldland last month went back to work after a five-day strike, but they're still hungry for justice. And they're bringing in the Teamsters...
...Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Macedonia, Ohio, you'll have to cross a picket line. Six young McDonald's employees got so angry over management's alleged rudeness and refusal to grant leave over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike...
...pockets the profit. Customs agents also suspect that many distributors simply file phony export-declaration forms and ship directly to problem countries. Last December, Yuri I. Montgomery, an Olympia, Wash., exporter, was indicted on charges of sending South Korean-made stun guns called Thunder Woman and Thunder Blaster to Macedonia in 1992 without Commerce Department approval. Customs agents are now investigating whether the weapons were reshipped from Macedonia to neighboring Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians have been tortured. The cases the Customs Service has uncovered are the tip of the iceberg. "There are definitely other companies in the U.S. doing...