Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overhead. Deep in the Kosovo hills, the Kosovo Liberation Army is fighting defensive battles, trying to conserve its resources. And in the middle of all this, NATO now says that up to 700,000 refugees are wandering homeless, brutalized by Serbian forces and desperately seeking a way out. Slobodan Milosevic has tried to put a lid on the province--limiting media access and stemming the outflow of refugees--but tales of horror continue to escape. And with K.L.A. troops busily rearming and Serbian forces mining, entrenching and leveling the province, much more violence probably lies ahead before Kosovo...
Alvis acknowledged that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has made coverage difficult for U.S. journalists...
...Slobodan Milosevic harder? Last week that was the key tactical question for NATO and U.S. war planners. The only measure that matters in air war is how many bombs are delivered on target, and last week's score paled alongside the explosive power that rained down on Saddam Hussein's forces during the Gulf War. NATO's 400 warplanes are launching roughly 100 strikes against Yugoslav targets every day. But foul weather has kept about half those warplanes from releasing their weapons. The resulting 50 effective daily strikes fall dramatically short of the 1,000 launched each day during...
...thought of him last week when people were comparing the mass murders in Kosovo to the Holocaust--how inept the comparisons were, vile as Slobodan Milosevic is. The Holocaust has no analog; this is why, almost 60 years after the fact, it is still impossible to fit it into the rest of history...
...Serbian twilight, they took us to see Slobodan Milosevic in his presidential residence. He had reddish, piggy eyes set in a big round head. He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull. Milosevic settled complacently onto a sofa, with Wiesel on his right, and cocked one leg onto the cushion, showing an expanse of hairless, pale calf above his black sock...