Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voted 98-1 on Tuesday to release the back dues and cut the U.S. contribution to the organization?s budget to 20 percent from 25 percent. TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell says the change of heart ?- adopted by Democrats after Clinton went along ?- has a lot to do with Slobodan Milosevic. "Kosovo showed the importance of the U.N. in building an international consensus for action," he says. "Even though it wasn?t possible in this particular case, with China and Russia both having Security Council vetoes over the air strikes, NATO realized how tough it is to be out there...
...hear Slobodan Milosevic tell it, his surrender to NATO was the happy ending to a fairy tale. Appearing before his bombed-out, beleaguered nation on TV last Thursday, he said, "The aggression ended. Peace prevailed. Dear citizens, happy peace to us all!" It's hard to know how any rational Serb could stand it. After starting and losing four wars in eight years, Milosevic was calling on his people to rejoice. Some bought it, singing along to the government tune. But once the Serbs wake up from their agitprop reverie, they will discover a country in ruins. Some were already...
...Serb security personnel and civilians makes it unlikely that most perpetrators will see justice anytime soon. And even as NATO devotes resources to assisting the investigations of the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, President Clinton on Thursday answered a reporter?s question over the indictment of President Slobodan Milosevic by saying, "I do not believe that the NATO allies can invade Belgrade to try to deliver the indictment," and stressing that the alliance?s fundamental immediate obligation was the safe return of the refugees...
...administration envoy -- or that he deservedly enjoys broad bipartisan support in the Senate. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the crotchety Helms is the bottleneck for all overseas nominations, and he promises a third-degree on everything from ethics to "this administration?s misguided policy of appeasing Slobodan Milosevic." The three-day swipe session begins today. But Clinton's bow-out may have ensured that it ends happily...
...World War I, which yielded the Treaty of Versailles, which deeply embittered an Austrian corporal named Adolf Hitler, who in response booted up the great horror of World War II, which yielded the Treaty at Yalta, which divided up Eastern Europe in such a way that another Serb named Slobodan Milosevic felt the need to ethnically cleanse Kosovo...