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...reconstruction contracts are doled out in post-Saddam Iraq. But Serbian officials say their country--not long ago the target of U.S. bombs--is in line for a chunk of a $680 million pie. Reason: in the run-up to Gulf War II, Serbian and U.S. officials tell TIME, Serbia gave the U.S. vital information about Iraqi targets...
...Arms-control advocates worry that possessing less catastrophic nuclear weapons would scuttle efforts to stop worldwide proliferation. Said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, last week: "This Administration seems to be moving toward a military posture in which nuclear weapons are considered just like other weapons." - By Mark Thompson/Washington SERBIA'S WAR WINDFALL SERBIA Old Europe may get the cold shoulder when coveted reconstruction contracts are doled out in post-Saddam Iraq. But Serbian officials say their country - not long ago the target of U.S. bombs - is in line for a chunk of a $680 million pie. Reason...
...Serbia's slain Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was never terribly popular. But he was the closest thing his country had to a reformer in its political ranks. He had plans for fixing the economy. And he had plans for cleaning up the security forces that were tainted by their role during the bloody rule of strongman Slobodan Milosevic...
...special unit of the state security forces known as the Red Berets--some of whose commanders carried out the assassination--would step forward as guardian of the peace. The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return to nationalist rule...
Happily, exactly the opposite happened: the assassination resulted in a massive crackdown against criminal elements of the old regime still operating in Serbia's security forces. Code-named Operation Sabre, the investigation into Djindjic's murder has produced truck loads of evidence for the special prosecutor's office. The conspirators, police say, were led by two men: Milorad (Legija) Lukovic, still at large, and Dusan Spasojevic, who was killed resisting arrest. Both men served with the Red Berets, which has been linked to war crimes and now to dozens of political murders under the Milosevic regime. So far, 45 conspirators...