Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lott said Serbian forces appear to be withdrawing under threat of a NATO strike and asked why, in "what appears will be three weeks before an election, we are going to go in and bomb some artillery tubes inside Kosovo...
...meantime, Western Europe, the United States and NATO have not yet taken any effective action to halt the Serbians' grave violations of human rights or to help the hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees whose only shelter has been the open sky. We urge the Harvard community to take all possible effective action, as soon as possible, to help to avert disaster and to protect the Kosovo refugees, who are now exposed not only to the harshness of the Balkan winter, but also to Serbian attacks...
...NATO's war drums may be beating louder by the day, but they're not cowing President Slobodan Milosevic. The Serb leader claims that his offensive in Kosovo is over and on Friday invited Kofi Annan to visit the region, but he doesn't seem ready to make the concessions necessary to stop the air strikes the West is threatening to launch -- perhaps as early as next week. "He still thinks this is all talk," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "He believes the current buildup is no different from the warnings in June and in March...
...order to satisfy NATO, Milosevic would have to concede at least some form of autonomy to the region's ethnic Albanian majority -- something he's shown no inclination of doing. "It's not clear that air strikes would force Milosevic to accept a peace deal for the region," says Calabresi, "but they would certainly restore some of the West's lost credibility...
...Baghdad late in 1990 in an effort to rescue his friend Saddam Hussein and head off the Gulf War. Since then he has been head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, which succeeded the KGB. As Foreign Minister, he has done his best to prevent the expansion of NATO, lift the sanctions on Iraq and forestall Western military action against Serbia. Even so, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has gone out of her way to maintain a good working relationship with him. Last July at a banquet in Manila, the two sang a parody of the duet from West Side Story...