Word: nato
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Milosevic released the POWs to Jackson because, not only does it attract Serbia some much-needed positive publicity, but it serves as an embarrassing slight to Milosevics real adversaries, President Clinton and NATO. Jackson embraces dictators and short-sightedly pursues small emotional accomplishments at the expense of grander strategic considerations...
...simple apology won't necessarily be enough this time. U.S. diplomatic facilities in Chinese cities came under fire from enraged rock-throwing demonstrators Saturday, following NATO's overnight bombing of China's Belgrade embassy that killed four people and wounded 26. The error -- which NATO officials said resulted from an intelligence failure in which the building was wrongly identified as a Yugoslav arms procurement office -- may further cloud the troubled relationship between Washington and Beijing. China denounced the act as "barbaric," demanded that NATO immediately halt its bombing campaign. Russia backed that call, insisting that the peace plan agreed with...
...embassy strike certainly adds to the geopolitical cost of the Kosovo campaign. NATO's decision to bomb Yugoslavia brought Washington's relations with Moscow to a ten-year low, and the latest tragedy may strengthen the hand of anti-Western elements within the Chinese leadership. NATO now faces the increasingly complicated challenge of maintaining its hard-won accord with Russia over the peace process at the same time as maintaining pressure on Belgrade. "NATO won't easily suspend the bombing because it knows it may be politically unable to restart it," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The alliance...
...first pontiff to visit Eastern Orthodox territory since Martin I was abducted there in the seventh century. And his historic attempt to heal the 945-year-old rift between the Vatican and the Eastern Orthodox Church may resonate with Slavic nationalist perceptions of the current conflict over Kosovo. "NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia is seen by many in Serbia, and other parts of the Slavic world, as evidence that the Eastern Orthodox Church faces a crusade from the West for the domination of Eastern souls," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Despite being grasped in Bucharest, the pontiff...
...much lower than that (the pilot said the altitude gauge had malfunctioned), ?one of the things that came out of this accident was the crew?s assertion that they had never heard of the 2,000-feet limit,? says Thompson. The Pentagon, which now relies heavily on Aviano for NATO's Kosovo campaign, has since redoubled its efforts to ensure that safety guidelines for pilots in Italy are made clear. ?The 2,000-feet rule has now been clearly communicated, maps of the region have been fully updated, and the heat is on to stop the practice of low-flying...