Word: slobodan
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...disintegration of Yugoslavia is not over yet. Eleven years of misrule and military adventurism by Slobodan Milosevic have whittled Serbia's partners in the federation down to one: Montenegro, a slice of mountainous, sun-bleached rock and 680,000 inhabitants wedged between the Serbian homeland and the limpid green waters of the Adriatic Sea. Since NATO jets bombed Milosevic out of Kosovo last year, Montenegro has been accelerating its tentative steps toward independence. But it has acted with the knowledge that the Serbian President could slam the door if he genuinely sensed his power base slipping. Now, with Milosevic facing...
...Slobodan Milosevic may be a thug, but he's a sly and nimble thug. He's chosen the U.S. election season as the moment to bring his confrontation with Montenegro to a head, mindful of the fact that the last thing Washington needs right now is to be dragged into yet another messy Balkan civil war. Milosevic on Thursday stunned his opponents by pushing constitutional changes through parliament that not only allow him to seek a fourth term of office but also diminish the already limited powers of Montenegro's government in the Yugoslav federation...
...while Washington may have insisted that democracy is the precondition for rehabilitating Serbia, that won't necessarily end all of the Balkan troubles: Slobodan Milosevic may be a despot and a demagogue, but the troubling reality is that most of the Serbian opposition accepted the principle that their nation should fight to hold on to Kosovo...
...cops worked her over with the hard rubber batons. As she faded into unconsciousness, the cops started in with the kicks, as if her midsection was an errant soccer ball. Manojlovic is 17, and small for her age. But she disturbs the security men who are responsible for keeping Slobodan Milosevic jammed into power...
...anointed the Kosovo Liberation Army as the White Knights of the Kosovo war, but war crimes prosecutors aren't convinced - and that could put NATO on a dangerous collision course with the men it installed in power in the breakaway province. The Hague Tribunal, which last year indicted President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, announced Tuesday that it is currently investigating five cases of atrocities against Serbs allegedly committed by members of the KLA. And observers believe that if charges are pursued, they may involve some of the now-disbanded movement's senior leaders, who currently occupy key positions...