Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military strikes in Yugoslavia must be allowed to run their course. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's call for cease-fires and his government's declaration that "peace has been restored in Kosovo" are belied by the brutal treatment of the Kosovar Albanians. Reports vary, but it seems certain that several hundred thousand Kosovars have been forced from their homes into neighboring republics, while many more are refugees within their own borders...
...Kosova Task Force, the organizer of the event, called for the independence of Kosovo, the arming of the ethnic Albanians, and the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal...
...past two weeks, weary Kosovar Albanians have been losing their homeland. While President Slobodan Milosevic has been forcing them out, NATO bombs have been simultaneously leveling Kosovo. And though the United States has styled itself as a compassionate savior, its efforts, from the looks of things, have turned out to be neither compassionate nor saving...
...This war is American soldiers--Staff Sergeant Andrew Ramirez, Staff Sergeant Christopher Stone, Specialist 4 Steven Gonzales--captured, humiliated, perhaps tried, perhaps killed. This war is sophisticated supertech airplanes dropping tons of ordnance night after night that fail to stop the enemy's rifle-toting soldiers. This war is Slobodan Milosevic, cleverer and crueler than planners expected, so far getting the better of NATO...
...must be hard to play a decent game of chess with all these bombs going off, but Slobodan Milosevic is no patzer -- he's had the white pieces all along and now he's looking to checkmate NATO at the negotiating table. Time for Madeleine and the boys at State to start boning up on their Nimzo-Indian defense. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) is the best chess movie CP has ever seen (although the Russian wrestler from Kubrick's The Killing should have got a spin-off movie of his own). It's also about a player whose every...