Word: slobodan
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...Croatia’s fascist regime during World War II, under which proper Croats made refugees out of some 300,000 Serbs less than 100 miles away, was now being waved in the faces of Bosnian Serbs, whose reputation is well-publicized in America and elsewhere courtesy of Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and their...
...never terribly popular. But he was the closest thing his country had to a reformer in its political ranks. He had plans for fixing the economy. And he had plans for cleaning up the security forces that were tainted by their role during the bloody rule of strongman Slobodan Milosevic...
...whose commanders carried out the Djindjic murder - would step forward, posing as guardians of the peace. They would urge calm, and dispatch letters to local politicians and foreign diplomats offering their "assistance" against the wave of "terrorism." The government would be forced to step down, and allies of Slobodan Milosevic's bloody regime would volunteer to fill the vacuum. Serbia would return to nationalist rule. That's the picture police in Belgrade painted for Time last week as they wrapped up their investigation into the Djindjic murder and prepared for a trial that begins in July. It's an apocalyptic...
...Police said drug barons hired Jovanovic, the JSO's deputy commander, to kill Djindjic to prevent government investigations. The JSO was disbanded and a dozen of its members held by police; they arrested four for the abduction of Stambolic - who had been shot - and officials named ousted dictator Slobodan Milosevic and his wife, Mira Markovic, as key suspects in that killing. More than 1,000 people, including several prominent judges and prosecutors, have been arrested so far because of mob links. - By Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade Trouble in the Skies greece Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, persuaded a 20-year...
There is recent precedent for this. In 1999 the U.S. knew that Russia would veto any resolution authorizing the use of force against Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo, and so the Security Council was skipped. But quiet negotiations with the Russians--before the first bombs fell--produced an agreement that established the U.N. as the immediate source of humanitarian aid and civil authority after the war (the Russians even agreed to be part of the peacekeeping force). And now the U.N. is quietly planning humanitarian aid for post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply...