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...world opinion. Yet never has the Hague tried a defendant so uncooperative. Milosevic seems determined to make the proceedings a spectacle of courtroom subversion, refusing to recognize the tribunal, refusing to enter a plea, refusing to select defense lawyers, refusing even to wear headphones to hear the proceedings in Serbian...
...will get equal time to make an opening statement. If past appearances offer any clue, he'll claim he was just defending his country, just fighting terrorists like the U.S. is now, just suffering from NATO aggression. He'll force the court to broadcast, as it has before, Serbian translation of the testimony into his face from a loudspeaker. He'll look bored, yawn, stare impatiently at his watch when prosecutors speak...
Thanks to the heavy peacekeeping presence, clashes between the rival groups have fallen off and an uneasy normalcy has settled in. At Mitrovica's Serbian Orthodox church, for example, Father Svetislav Nojic, 64, continues to hold sparsely attended Sunday liturgies, though worshipers must travel under armed guard to get there from the Serb side of town. Nojic says he needs an escort just to take a walk in his tiny garden. Still, most days he ventures out to tend his congregation north of the Ibar, hunkered down in an armored personnel carrier. "I have been a priest for 47 years...
Though violence has tapered off, the conflict has taken on other forms. Mitrovica's largest Serbian Orthodox cemetery, like the church, is located on the Albanian side of town. Every few months, Serbs who want to tend the graves of their loved ones travel in a KFOR armored convoy to the site. After they leave, Father Nojic says, the recently tended graves are defaced by Albanian vandals. As a result, some parishioners have taken to burying their dead in their backyards. The largest ethnic Albanian cemetery is also on the wrong side of town, and it gets even fewer visitors...
...couple of months and try to write something. That's a lot scarier." But the writer in Wilson never stays dormant for long. Before shooting Behind Enemy Lines, Wilson transformed his character on the page from a swaggering pilot to a misguided navigator who has to outwit some Serbian bad guys after being shot down. "It kinda helped me make it more believable for myself," says Wilson. "I don't see myself being a straight-out action hero...