Word: nato
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...NATO's continued bombing of Yugoslavia following Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's announcement of a unilateral cease-fire has increasingly polarized the opinions of Harvard students from the Balkans...
Many students from Serbia condemned NATO's bombing campaign, particularly now that Milosevic has announced a unilateral cease-fire for Orthodox Easter, which should last at least until the holiday is observed on Sunday...
...Obviously Milosevic backed up a little bit and I hope that NATO will recognize that and recognize that it also needs to stop bombing and start talking, because that's the only way we're going to get a peace agreement out of this," said Luka Djunic '01, who is from Belgrade, Yugoslavia...
...Yugoslavia did what NATO wanted it to do. Cease-fire is the basis for everything else, [but] instead of encouraging it by a cease-fire of its own, NATO just goes in...and still bombs...which sends the wrong message to the people in Yugoslavia and to Milosevic," Djunic added...
...seen since the end of World War II, the U.S. said on Tuesday that it would accept and house its share of ethnic Albanian refugees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military base in Cuba. After obtaining assurances from each other that they would carry through on their pledges, the NATO allies moved "remarkably swiftly," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, to begin carrying out the logistics of moving some of the refugees to their own countries and installations. "The speed is a testament to the unity the allies want to project to Milosevic," says Branegan. "And it is remarkable...