Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inside Kosovo, the K.L.A. is surviving better than expected. The CIA initially feared that thousands of Kosovar men had been massacred, but it now believes many have actually slipped off to join the K.L.A. in the hills, in some cases helping guide NATO warplanes in for attacks. The K.L.A. is husbanding what few resources it has and is avoiding offensive operations "so it can fight another day," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "Reports of their demise are premature," he explains, "They have been badly hampered but not wiped...
...journalists managed to reach a unit in the Rugova valley west of the cleansed town of Pec. They said the rebels were organized and disciplined and appeared to be holding their own against the Serbs in sporadic fighting. In a bold move last Tuesday, rebels from this group phoned NATO and requested that planes take out a specific bridge. Twenty-four hours later, the K.L.A. commander claimed, it was gone. NATO has so far stopped short of shipping arms to the K.L.A. Administration sources say they fear such a move would encourage the Russians to retaliate by rearming Milosevic...
Sending a stream of bullets into the sky at 10:05 p.m. on Tuesday, a lone army gunner manning an antiaircraft gun in the heart of Podgorica opened up on NATO planes flying over Montenegro toward targets in Kosovo and Serbia. An hour later explosions from a NATO retaliatory raid rocked the city. Almost immediately, a cacophony filled the night. It wasn't air-raid sirens or the wails of the wounded, but the ringing of mobile phones. "Who cares about bombing! Is this the coup?" worried government officials asked one another...
...government offices there is confusion. Some ministers believe NATO will intervene to help; others argue that the alliance is far too divided to rescue such a small province. Milosevic is starting to turn up the pressure. He has issued a draft order for all battle-age Montenegrins, and his promises that no locals would be sent to Kosovo have been abandoned. Trees along boulevards now sprout the death notices of local soldiers killed in Kosovo. A civil war here would surely bring the dying closer to home...
Bombing Belgrade has certainly inspired the Serb city's thriving graphic-arts community. The "target" symbol worn by anti-NATO protesters, and Easter eggs (7), and now to be made into a Serbian stamp (5), is only the latest cultural icon to emerge from a people used to making memorable gestures--like the three-fingered Serb salute (2). From the sassy anti-American graphics of Serbian websites (4) to the menacing tiger patch (6) of Arkan's soldiers to the drawings that children (3) made reportedly "while the bombs were falling," the Serbs are winning the image...