Word: slobodan
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Tasic-Nikolic said that Djindjic was a positive force of reform—especially in his efforts to normalize relations with the West following the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosovic...
...Slobodan Milosevic, old habits die hard. He has been away from home for more than a year now, held by the United Nations at its war-crimes tribunal in the Hague. But each morning he returns to Serbia via the airwaves, the familiar pink cheeks and silvery hair reclaiming their place on TV sets across the former Yugoslavia. For the president of the National Committee for the Liberation of Slobodan Milosevic, an organization of hard-liners, it's a welcome sight. "I am proud of our President," says Bogoljub Bjelica. "He is superior in every way." That view is widely...
...nuclear or chemical weapons. Instead, Bush warned that the first time the world would know for sure was "when, God forbid, he uses one." NETHERLANDS No Smoking Gun After 95 days of testimony, 300 exhibits and 124 witnesses, prosecutors in the U.N. war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ended the portion of their case dealing with the massacres and forced deportation of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Prosecutors believe their circumstantial evidence against Milosevic will secure his conviction. TURKEY Fatal Protest A woman prisoner became the 65th person to die in a hunger strike protesting the conditions under...
...people might soon be saying, "Yankee, please stay." It would be hard to overstate the impact of U.S. involvement in the region during the past decade. The U.S. helped end the Bosnian war and later tamped down conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia. America pressured the Serb opposition to oust Slobodan Milosevic and forced his extradition to the international tribunal in the Hague. Along the way, the U.S. won friends in unexpected places, notably among the region's Muslim population. Those alliances are still paying political dividends today. But now that era may be coming to an end. Seven years after...
...AILING. SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, 60, former Yugoslav President on trial before a U.N. war tribunal for genocide during the Bosnian war; of severe heart disease and high blood pressure; in the Hague. Court-recommended treatment is expected to delay the trial...