Word: nato
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TRANSFERRED. AIR FORCE GENERAL JOSEPH RALSTON, 55, to NATO commander, from his current post as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In May, Ralston will replace Army General Wesley Clark, who ran NATO's war against Yugoslavia...
...courage. He led antigovernment demonstrations in Belgrade in 1991. In 1993, out in the streets again to fight Milosevic's "Nazi fascist combination," he was arrested, beaten and jailed for 50 days. Since then, Draskovic has played a different game, shifting in and out of opposition. Just before NATO bombs began falling, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and became a ubiquitous apologist for his country. But in April, after criticizing Milosevic's policies in Kosovo, he was fired...
...only be the Serbs and Gypsies who are being terrorized in NATO-controlled Kosovo: The New York Times reported Thursday that the Kosovo Liberation Army has stepped into the power vacuum and unilaterally claimed all political power for itself, despite the fact that the U.N. is mandated to run the province until elections are held. The Times, citing NATO sources, says that the KLA is continuing to stockpile weapons and reports that the organization is taxing the population as well as confiscating property, under threat of violence, from both Serbs and ethnic Albanians. Commenting on the KLA?s monopolization...
There may have been no ticker tape parade for General Wesley Clark, but that doesn?t mean he?s getting the military version of a pink slip. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that General Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war over Kosovo, will be removed from his command two months ahead of schedule early next year, linking the move to alleged tensions between Clark and the Pentagon over the conduct of the campaign. But the military?s explanation for the move may hold more water. "The fact is, Clark won the war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson...
...idea of punishing Clark. On both of his major differences with the Pentagon and the White House over the conduct of the Kosovo campaign ? his desire to escalate the air war from early on and to prepare for a ground invasion ? he may have been vindicated by the outcome. NATO was indeed forced to step up the air war, and many observers believe that it was only the prospect of a ground war that actually prompted Yuogslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw from Kosovo. "Clark may be suffering from perceptions created by the absence of a ticker tape parade," says...