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...LIFETIME beamed the newspaper Express. NATO flew in 1,000 reinforcements to guard against the possibility of mob violence, but Kosovo Albanians greeted the news that a "war hero" had been indicted with relative calm. International officials are already holding Kosovo up as an example to neighboring Serbia and to Croatia, which have been reluctant to turn over popular suspects. Diplomats...
...Turkey to abolish the death penalty, rein in its military and grant cultural rights to the Kurds. That same prospect has moved Croatia to give up eight war-crimes suspects, although failure to deliver another key suspect, General Ante Gotovina, will likely lead to postponement of E.U. talks. Even Serbia recently turned over General Vladimir Lazarevic, suspected of war crimes in Kosovo. And the lure of E.U. membership is also casting its spell over former Soviet satellites such as Ukraine, where President Viktor Yushchenko is pushing a reform agenda meant to win candidate status as soon as possible...
...under E.U. control. "The Balkans are divided into two groups: those who will become E.U. members soon and those who won't," says Gerald Knaus, head of the European Stability Initiative, a Berlin think tank. The prospect of membership "gives a big boost to reform. For Albania, Bosnia and Serbia, the incentive is much weaker as long as membership remains vague...
...boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years ago, carrying Tito's remains cross-country during his funeral parade, and has been kept in a Belgrade engine hangar ever since...
...boss man of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980. Built in 1958, it was where Tito hosted such heads of state as Leonid Brezhnev and Jawaharlal Nehru of India. It's recently been restored to all its cold war-era glory and is available for rent in Belgrade, Serbia, where the impoverished state rail system is doing what it can to earn extra money. The locomotive was last used in its original capacity 25 years ago, carrying Tito's remains cross-country during his funeral parade, and has been kept in a Belgrade engine hangar ever since. The Blue Train reflects...