Word: regionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheriff's office, largely a holdover from the region's colonial past, enforces order in the country-wide police operations...
...they can't win in the short term, having succeeded in restoring Kosovo's autonomy," says Calabresi. "While some in the KLA will think they have nothing to lose by fighting on for independence, many recognize the need for an interim stage to stabilize the region -- and that's what the autonomy plan would give them." Rebel HQ seems to have decided that the cup is half full...
...likely in the future. And two other school rampages--in Jonesboro, Ark., and Springfield, Ore.--did occur. Even so, the chances of such a tragedy visiting your neighborhood remain minuscule. You'll know it's time to worry when your newspaper stops covering school massacres that happen outside your region...
...plight of the Russians doesn't tweak your heart strings, how about the Albanian Kosovans. The Serb's have renewed their project of ethnic cleansing in that region, ejecting the chief U.S. peace-verifier, massacring at least one village and commencing the artillery bombardment of others...
...immediate air strike isn't an option for NATO, because that would endanger the 700 monitors introduced to the region as part of the cease-fire deal brokered by Richard Holbrooke last November. But even if the monitors were withdrawn, it's not clear that the U.S. and its allies would attack: Many Western observers believe that only ground troops could keep the peace in Kosovo -- and that's a non-starter, since the Western alliance has no appetite for wading into an intractable civil war between the Serb authorities and the independence-minded Kosovar Albanians. And with no firm...