Word: slobodan
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Stealing an election in Serbia isn't easy, even for a felon as seasoned as Slobodan Milosevic - and that makes the Serb strongman more likely to play for time, or even start another war somewhere as an excuse to hang on to power. As results poured in Monday from ballot boxes from all over what remains of Yugoslavia, the bitter winter of 1996-97 may be weighing heavily on Milosevic's mind. Weeks of massive street demonstrations in Belgrade had forced him, early in 1997, to concede city hall to the opposition party chosen by the voters...
...prime minister Tony Blair and 12 other NATO leaders for alleged war crimes committed against civilians during last year's Kosovo campaign wrapped up Thursday, with guilty verdicts and 20-year sentences all around. So dense was the "book" thrown at President Clinton and his cohorts that it took Slobodan Milosevic's prosecutors a full three hours to read the indictment into the court record...
...finished." No matter what street of Belgrade you walk down these days, you will run into this graffiti. Activists of the student pro-democracy movement "Otpor" (Resistance) have put it up on virtually every wall in the city. "He" refers to Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia and the last dictator in Europe. Milosevic has been the dominant political figure in the Balkans for the past 13 years, leading Serbs into four wars, including last year's confrontation with NATO over Kosovo...
...Parachute Regiment arrived in the Balkans last September. Once deployed to the town of Vitina, the soldiers morphed, figuratively if not literally, into cops, poised delicately between the minority Serb population and Kosovar Albanians eager for revenge against the horrors wrought upon the Albanians by the Serbian forces of Slobodan Milosevic. The report concluded that the top U.S. officers in the town favored Serbs, who accounted for about a third of the populace, over Albanians, who made up the rest...
...propaganda" invented by Djukanovic to sow instability and draw NATO into the fight. "The Yugoslav army is not politically motivated," he says blandly during an interview at his mountain farm. "It is a guarantor of stability." The Yugoslav army's top commander, Colonel General Nebojsa Pavkovic, who recently commended Slobodan Milosevic for his "wise and decisive policies that have preserved the dignity of our people," says his troops have been acting in Montenegro only to prevent "the infiltration of terrorists." He wonders aloud why his army would be planning a coup when it had tolerated Djukanovic for so long already...