Word: nato
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...just. In her third year as the country's first female Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, a child of Europe's dark century, pushed and prodded the U.S. and its allies to punish the Continent's latest ethnic cleanser. It was a career-defining event: the NATO campaign to drive Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's forces out of Kosovo became known as Madeleine's War. Through 78 days of bombing, Albright kept wavering allies on board, until Milosevic finally backed down. There were no U.S. combat deaths. NATO jets failed to stop Serbs from killing 10,000 Kosovars and driving...
...Also absent from Tudjman's funeral were the leaders of the NATO countries, which, although they'd backed him in his war against the Serbs, subsequently began to keep their distance from the authoritarian nationalist. "The West's early decisions on Croatia were made in a time of crisis management, when Tudjman's anticommunism was enough to win him support," says Anastasijevic. "Later, Tudjman's lack of enthusiasm for democracy and factors such as his denial of the Holocaust made them more uncomfortable." But while Western governments are hoping that Tudjman's passing will open...
...accept Turkey as a candidate member, conditional on it's improving its human rights record and accepting the binding arbitration of the International Court of Justice at the Hague in its long-running dispute with Greece over Cyprus. "This is good news for the U.S. because Turkey is NATO's front line in relation to Russia and the Caucasus, and drawing them closer to Europe cements the West's security alliance with Ankara," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
Slobodan Milosevic may have a nasty little surprise waiting for NATO in the New Year - all nicely timed to coincide with the lead-up to the American presidential election. Wednesday's seizure of Montenegro's main airport by Milosevic's troops looks like a dry run to test Western resolve to defend the territory's pro-Western government. Although Yugoslavian forces backed down early Thursday, reopening the airport amid threats from NATO, the move may be a foretaste of a crisis to come. "Milosevic was clearly trying to test the West's commitment to defend Montenegro," says TIME Central Europe...
...Although NATO strongly backs the government of President Milo Djukanovic, its official position is that Montenegro should remain an autonomous part of the Yugoslav federation. But remaining in the federation looks increasingly unviable for Djukanovic's government as long as Milosevic remains in power. And with Belgrade having just been granted $300 million in reconstruction aid by China, Milosevic doesn't look like he's about to leave the scene. "So the question isn't whether there'll be a confrontation, but when it will happen," says Anastasijevic. "But rather than simply send in his army, Milosevic may choose instead...