Word: pristina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army. Kosovo is the Serbs' Vietnam, not ours. If NATO really does eventually destroy Milosevic's army from the air, as General Wesley Clark has threatened (although he hasn't explained how this can be done without inflicting extensive civilian casualties), then the K.L.A. will soon be riding into Pristina as if into Saigon. Then the remaining Serbs living in Kosovo will probably flee. Milosevic knows this. He knows such a loss is the one thing that might finally turn the fury of people in Serbia proper against him. That's why he is unlikely to give up swiftly, which...
...credibility is dented if people you said were dead show up alive three days later," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Clearly there have been a lot of false reports in the confusion of the first week's bombing." For example, KLA sources told German TV on Tuesday that Pristina's football stadium had been turned into a concentration camp holding 100,000 people. "Then a group of journalists went there and found that the stadium was not full of people, either dead or alive," says Thompson. But this is war, and the truth seldom makes it through without...
Other commanders are more professional. Commander Remi, 28, who controls a region that includes the capital of Pristina, is a former law student. Operating from a bland house about 30 minutes north of Pristina, he has made a reputation for himself by holding off violent Serb attacks, although not without casualties. But after years of Serbian repression, there is no shortage of young men willing to die for independence. Says Mohamet Latifi, a soldier serving under Remi: "If someone attacked your house, would you run away or would you defend...
Just showing up at peace talks won't be enough, Madeleine Albright warned Kosovo's warring factions last week -- but the Serbs on Friday made even showing up difficult for their ethnic-Albanian adversaries. The Serbs stopped four Kosovo Liberation Army delegates from leaving Pristina, insisting the men couldn't travel to the Paris talks without valid passports. "The posturing has begun," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Neither side supports NATO's peace plan, and agreed to the talks only under threat of Western military action. "They're obviously going to try and strengthen their negotiating positions...
...Albright worked Wednesday to get NATO to issue a tough ultimatum to both sides on Thursday, threatening that failure to accept a compromise could result in air strikes on the Serbs and unspecified restrictions on the KLA guerrillas. But in the hills north of Pristina Wednesday, the two sides continued to let their weapons do the talking...