Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After countless empty threats of action against Milosevic, we are glad that the Clinton administration and the NATO alliance have decided to come to the Albanians' aid. For the past week, NATO planes have launched air strikes against Serb military positions and government infrastructure. However, we are concerned that the current strategy may actually be making the situation worse rather than better...
During the NATO attack, the already horrendous refugee situation in the region has worsened. Serb police have escalated their cleansing campaign, massacring civilians and burning villages. Thousands of innocents have been streaming across the border into neighboring Macedonia and Albania proper, overwhelming aid agencies...
...this is only the start of a three-stage campaign that could last several weeks. As allied bombs continue to fall on the Yugoslav air-defense network, NATO will increasingly go after the tanks, artillery and armored vehicles the Serbs are using to demolish villages in Kosovo. In Phase Two, the allied pilots will focus on hitting the Serb forces spreading carnage inside Kosovo and staging just north of the province...
...best, could turn if the evening news starts delivering pictures of dead and maimed innocents. A TIME/CNN poll last week indicated less than massive support in the U.S., with 44% of respondents approving the air strikes. Another 40% disapproved. Asked if the U.S. has a moral imperative to stop Serb actions in Kosovo, 50% said yes and 41% no. The targets were reviewed with great care at the White House, where Secretary of Defense William Cohen and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, sat down with President Clinton to go over the list. Some important ones were...
...been massing on Kosovo's borders for weeks, began to squeeze the province, forcing many units of the rebel K.L.A. to fight for their lives. "We are encircled," a K.L.A. commander told TIME in a hurried phone call during a break in the shooting. "All around us are Serb forces and at least 30,000 troops and more than 200 vehicles. We are not in a very good position...