Word: nato
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...biggest local eruption of violence came when U.N. police and NATO troops tried to evict Serbian judges from a U.N. courthouse. Local Serbs attacked NATO soldiers and U.N. police with grenades and rifles, and several hundred people were injured in the resulting melee - including one Ukrainian policeman in the U.N. force who died from shrapnel wounds. Despite the occasional rumor, still, of ethnic Albanian "terrorists" coming across the bridge to threaten Kosovo's Serb minority, the Serb "bridgewatchers" gathered at La Dolce Vita as an early warning system barely glance at the bridge any more...
...former bridgewatcher who has since become a leading voice for moderate Serbs, is optimistic. "We are going to enter a more peaceful period," he told TIME. "It used to be a curse to say you were not obeying orders from Belgrade. But not any more." As he spoke, a NATO soldier on the far side of the river raised his binoculars and leveled them on the caf?. The soldier's view would have taken in a group of ex-bridgewatchers lounging around the cafe, but also three young women in tight jeans and moonshaped dark glasses perched on stools, taking...
...perhaps ask for meetings with legislators. The military policy first came into effect as part of the 1993 Department of Defense budget. The earliest iteration also prohibited officers from investigating enlisted men solely to discover their sexual orientation. Other than Turkey, the U.S. is currently the only country in NATO that prevents gays and lesbians from serving openly—despite the fact that other countries have proved the feasibility of open service, Brooks said. “There’s no further excuse for inaction on this issue,” he added. —Staff Writer...
...depressed," says Shervington, who is dedicated to Afghanistan and believes NATO can succeed, although not as quickly as he'd like. "What can you do? The easy thing would be to listen to the Taliban, and not go to Kajaki Olya anymore. The villagers are caught between us and the Taliban." He spreads his hands apart and smacks them together. "But we can't not go in. And we can't fight the Taliban, either. So we are caught...
...between each other, and Bush, the next President's approach to the Middle East may look like this one's. "A lot of what's going to happen there is beyond our control," says Robert Hunter a senior advisor of the RAND corporation and a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO...