Word: pristina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months prior to the NATO campaign, but now Serbs are the main victims. Kosovo Albanians are purging the province of Serbian culture: license plates are being blacked out, accents dropped, and street signs lengthened to show Albanian pronunciation. A U.N. worker was shot three hours after arriving in Pristina last month for speaking Serbian. How should Clinton pronounce the name of the place? He has already shown a Clintonian flexibility. In speeches prior to the NATO bombing he used the Serbian "Ko-sovo." During the war, he switched to the Albanian "Ko-so-va." There is a third option...
...correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "The process began with last year's sudden deployment in Kosovo, which was a far more serious development in Russian domestic politics than the West realized at the time." Back then the Kremlin found itself playing catch-up as the generals ordered their men to seize Pristina airport, and right now in Chechnya it's unclear if the civilian political leaders or the generals are in charge. "The military is certainly making clear that it plans to finish the job that the Kremlin didn't let it finish in 1996," says Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
Holbrooke arrived in Pristina just days after being sworn in as U.N. ambassador. He had been in danger of setting an unenviable record: being held up for a job longer than the time he'd have to serve in it. Bill Clinton chose him 14 months ago, but congressional roadblocks, including an investigation into his financial dealings, delayed confirmation...
...will begin the task in Pristina. In particular, he is hoping he can get the Kosovo Liberation Army to cooperate with the U.N. That may be tough. K.L.A. insiders say Holbrooke's word doesn't mean as much as that of State Department spokesman James Rubin, who helped broker the deal that gave the K.L.A. a political boost. U.S. intelligence officials in Pristina are openly questioning the wisdom of cooperating with the K.L.A., which so far has delivered little more than revenge killings, rapes and headaches...
...Kosovo, including some of the promised donations that have not yet arrived. Scores of villages have received no help, hundreds of factories sit idle, and more than 70,000 roofs need repair. "The clock," says a European aid official, "is ticking faster than we can move." And with Pristina's air already carrying a hint of winter nip, it is clear there won't be much room for error. Between sessions with U.N. workers, Holbrooke planned to drop in for a visit at Tricky Dick's, a Pristina gin joint named for him. It may prove a dubious honor, especially...