Word: slobodan
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Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic may not yet bear the shattered visage of an Ozymandias, but his sneer of cold command has looked a lot less confident the past few days. The tyrant, who has ruled Yugoslavia for the last 13 years, perpetrating countless crimes against humanity, is in danger of being ousted from his seat of power. When Yugoslavia's citizens went to the polls two weeks ago, many were hopeful that Milosevic's rival, Vojislav Kostunica, would capture the majority of the country's vote. And all evidence pointed to Kostunica's electoral victory...
...were there any wounds opened? Maybe. Bush, in the middle of unrewarding digression into matters Balkan, started talking in rather warm terms about the Russians and their willingness to help pry Slobodan Milosevic out of the president's chair. Gore reminded Bush that the Russians haven't been much help in that regard. Bush: "Obviously we wouldn't ask the Russians if they didn't agree with our answer, Mr. Vice President," Gore: "But they don't." Was it Gerald Ford's liberation of Poland? Hardly. But in the debate's one foray into foreign-policy specifics, Bush sounded like...
Dictators almost never go gently after elections. And if ever one has had a compelling interest in staying on, it's Slobodan Milosevic. Yugoslavia's malign strongman of 13 years and mastermind of four ever more savage ethnic wars lives under international indictment for crimes against humanity. But, suddenly, the man who successfully depicted himself as being at one with the Serb people has lost his aura of invincibility with the stunning official admission that he came in second in last week's presidential ballot. No one knew which of his nighttime hideouts he was holed...
...Slobodan Milosevic lost his battle for reelection - and lost badly, even according to his own count. But now he's challenging his opponents to a battle in the streets to claim their prize. After a triumphant opposition rally in Belgrade Wednesday night at which some 200,000 Serbs demanded that Milosevic abandon his plans to force a runoff vote on October 8, the strongman's electoral commission announced early Thursday that its final results showed opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica with 48.96 percent of the vote compared with Milosevic's 38.62 percent - and ordered the runoff poll because Kostunica had failed...
...Slobodan Milosevic admits he lost Yugoslavia's presidential election, but not the full extent of his defeat - and that sets the stage for a dramatic showdown with an opposition ready to take to the streets to claim its victory. Preliminary official results announced Tuesday put opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica eight points ahead of the Serb strongman, but deny him the 50 percent margin required to claim first-round victory. Opposition leaders scoff at the figures released by Milosevic's electoral commission, confidently claiming that independent officials monitoring the count at local ballot stations confirm that Kostunica won 55 percent...