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...village lies 32 miles beyond the dusty downtown streets of Pristina, capital of the rebellious Serbian province of Kosovo, due west across the bleak Field of the Blackbirds. The Turks slaughtered Christian forces here in 1389 on their way to 500 years of rule in the Balkans. Even now, flocks of shrieking, cackling blackbirds fuel a local legend that they are reincarnated Serb warriors...
...made their way over most of his body and finished up with electrodes to his wetted testicles. At that point, he passed out. Neziri finally agreed to "confess" when his captors said they would torture his father next, but a month ago, he received a surprise acquittal from a Serbian-controlled court in Pristina. Now, Neziri says, he wants peace but is ready to fight for independence...
Bosko Drobnjak is the regional Serbian information official in Pristina. His ostentatious office is protected by a minor official playing video games on a dirty, out-of-date computer. Those who make it past the flunky to see Drobnjak get a curt summary of the Serbian position: "I don't know why people are so concerned about the treatment terrorists are getting," he says, chuckling...
...this one. The picture is an urgent if conventional thriller about the theft of a nuclear bomb by a Serbian terrorist. Every nation wants to defuse the bomb since the terrorist says he will use it to blow up the United Nations. But in Michael Schiffer's script the task is pretty much left to a cowboy and a lady: U.S. Army Colonel Tom Devoe (George Clooney) and nuclear scientist Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman). They race around the globe (the film was shot in 10 countries), kill villains, crash cars and tap on computers...
...Netanyahu's book, A Place Among the Nations. Once on the ground, though, Albright will rely heavily on her patented blunt talk. She won't be as bare-knuckled with these sensitive rivals as she was during her visit to the Balkans last May when she repeatedly dressed down Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian strongman Franjo Tudjman in public. But she will deliver a "reality check" to Arafat and Netanyahu on the consequences of their standoff, says her spokesman James Rubin...