Word: serb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future of Kosovo, all they got was a promise in theory from the ethnic Albanians to subscribe to the NATO plan a couple of weeks down the road. What Belgrade got was a delicious reprieve from American dictates and the missiles that NATO had threatened to launch if Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic failed to accept the deal. The whole business will have to be gone over again when the talks resume on March...
...negotiations over the fate of the ethnic Albanians living inside the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Last Saturday, after jetting back to France, Albright hiked up and down stairs for nine hours in the drafty 14th century castle in which talks were under way, carrying proposals between hard-line Serb negotiators and Kosovo guerrilla chieftains. By day's end, she had moved the Albanians, including key negotiator Veton Surroi, close to accepting the NATO plan, but the Yugoslavs were still stonewalling. "They are not engaging," she told TIME in an exclusive interview. Her plan, aides say, was to secure agreement from...
Albright has long believed that the only things Milosevic understands are blunt words and brute force. She's been contemptuous of the Serb strongman ever since her first visit as Secretary of State to Belgrade in 1997, when he patronizingly told her she was a neophyte in Balkan politics. Albright, who spent three years in Belgrade as the daughter of a Czech ambassador, shot back, "Don't tell me I'm uninformed. I've lived here...
Slobodan Milosevic's characteristic smug smile is more than normally appropriate right now -- after all, he's the only winner in the meltdown of the Western-authored Kosovo peace deal. NATO's second deadline for agreement passed on Tuesday with neither side on board, but instead of bombs, the Serb president got another three-week extension -- bombing Milosevic into acquiescence wasn't an option as long as his enemies played hard to get. Says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "While the U.S. and the international community are playing down the extent of the failure at Rambouillet, Milosevic is the only winner...
...still on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia have so far been almost casualty free because their job has been to separate two identifiable armies. But in Kosovo "there will be a lot more free-lancers," as a defense official puts it. Rogue guerrillas from the Kosovo Liberation Army and undercover Serb security agents may try to sabotage the accord by targeting U.S. troops. Kosovo may yet see peace, but the Marines may pay a price for keeping...