Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western orientation in Russian politics today, notes TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Hostility toward the U.S. and its allies is so high right now," he says, "that the more the West protests against actions in Chechnya...
...indeed, there was espionage under way. But that would be to miss a domestic political opportunity. "The atmosphere in Russian politics is increasingly anti-Western," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "And you can generate political capital by saying ?Washington is up to its old tricks by expanding NATO, reviving Star Wars and now spying on Moscow,? and then taking a hard line against it." Under those circumstances, weeding out a Western ?spy? is something of a crowd-pleaser...
...Africa last March with a directive to attack Kosovo. In an interview Monday night on NBC's "Dateline," Sheehy said that at the time of the request, the President was so eager to get himself out the doghouse that he obliged the missus and the next day asked his NATO buddies to join him in an aerial attack on the Balkans...
...trust never debated the wisdom of a schedule that would put him in Athens shortly before Wednesday, Nov. 17. That sensitive anniversary commemorates a 1973 crackdown on pro-democracy students and is traditionally marked by demonstrations against the U.S. Moreover, Greeks are particularly angry at Washington this year over NATO's bombing of Kosovo. Still, "no one believed security conditions were so bad that the President could not come," says a senior American official. U.S. diplomats tried to blame Athens for the scheduling gaffe, insisting Greek Premier COSTAS SIMITIS changed his mind after promising U.S. Ambassador NICK BURNS that...
...will visit Kosovo later this month, and even though the U.S. military base is built to withstand a Klingon attack, the Secret Service is edgy. A report published last week noted that there are as many murders in Kosovo today as there were in the months prior to the NATO campaign, but now Serbs are the main victims. Kosovo Albanians are purging the province of Serbian culture: license plates are being blacked out, accents dropped, and street signs lengthened to show Albanian pronunciation. A U.N. worker was shot three hours after arriving in Pristina last month for speaking Serbian...