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...Kostunica" while Texas Gov. George W. Bush is still struggling with "Milosevic." Of the two candidates, Gore won points for the depth of his knowledge of foreign policy; Bush's weakness on this front was illustrated when he did not seem to understand that Russia's reluctance to endorse Serbian President Vojislav Kostunica had encouraged former president Slobodan Milosevic to stay in power. In general, however, the candidates did use some choice phrases to reveal different philosophies of foreign affairs. In rough terms, Gore has supported the broader, more interventionist policy of the Clinton Administration, while Bush has favored...
Neither did anyone else. The obscure 56-year-old constitutional lawyer is an unlikely savior of his nation. He is calm to the point of boring. He has labored for years in the backwaters of Serbian politics without making much of an impression. As a staunch anticommunist--and a zealous Serb nationalist who criticized past Yugoslav leaders for compromising Serb rights--he riled communist boss Josip Broz Tito enough in 1974 to get himself fired from his professorship at Belgrade University. When the opportunistic Milosevic, in a campaign to win over intellectuals, offered him the job back in 1989, Kostunica...
...have been less powerful than at the Los Angeles convention, but they were still effective, especially that of a Florida high school student whose classroom is too crowded to provide her a desk. Gore's control of specifics were again impressive, and his responses to questions regarding the Serbian election, oil reserves and energy policy, RU-486 and the Supreme Court were well-reasoned and articulate. He spoke naturally, especially on topics where his greater control of quantitative information gave him the advantage...
...vigorous nationalist, not an ethnic killer. He subscribed to multiparty democracy and market economics but never kowtowed to the West. He wanted to end confrontation with Europe and the U.S. but harshly condemned NATO's air war and slammed Washington's aggressive support for the Serbian opposition this past year as "the kiss of death." He vowed not to deliver Milosevic to the Hague, calling the war-crimes tribunal an illegitimate instrument of U.S. hypocrisy. He was unsullied by Serbia's pervasive corruption. He did not cozy up to Milosevic as better-known opposition leaders had. "I've never even...
...against Milosevic, he ran for Serbia. Without that platform of patriotism, he never could have won, but it wasn't pandering. His nationalist sentiments run deep. He railed repeatedly against the West for bombing his homeland. He positioned himself as a firm advocate of Serbian interests in Kosovo, promising to negotiate the safe return of the thousands who fled Albanian retribution after the war. He said protecting Milosevic from international war-crimes prosecution was a matter of constitutional sovereignty. He made it clear his Yugoslavia would not become "anybody's protectorate...