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...fortunes of "Greater Serbia" went the way of Slobodan Milosevic; now the imperial vision menacing the fragile Balkans is "Greater Albania." Clashes between Albanian nationalist guerrillas and U.S.-trained Macedonian army units intensified Friday, despite the direct intervention by U.S. troops Thursday to drive the guerrillas out of their stronghold in the Macedonian village of Tanusevci. The guerrillas are remnants of the Kosovo Liberation Army who have taken their fight across the borders both into southern Serbia, where their objective is to annex the Presevo Valley, and into Macedonia, where they're attempting to seize control over predominantly ethnic-Albanian...
...most dramatic setback suffered by Kosovo's Albanian nationalists was probably the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence for Kosovo dimmed even further. That, and President George W. Bush's campaign promise to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, may have prompted Albanian nationalists across the region to step up their campaign for a Greater Albania, by launching new insurgencies in Serbia's Presevo Valley (which falls in a demilitarized buffer zone adjacent to Kosovo) and in northern...
...Belgrade Chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte met strong resistance to her attempts to persuade Yugoslav authorities to extradite former strongman Slobodan Milosevic from Yugoslavia to the Hague for trial. In a series of meetings in Belgrade last week, Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and Zoran Djindjic, Serbia?s first post-communist Prime Minister, told Del Ponte that Milosevic should face trial at home in Serbia for corruption and other crimes against the Serb people, and also possibly later for war crimes. The issue has become something of a juggling act for the new Yugoslav administration, which is under...
...surprise that their meeting didn't go well. Neither side really expected that it would. Carla Del Ponte didn't expect that that she would be able to fly back to The Hague with Slobodan Milosevic's head on a plate, and Kostunica didn't expect that he and Del Ponte would become good friends. But the most important thing here is that a dialogue has been established...
...Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia; the Serbian people overthrew Slobodan Milosevic; South Korean President Kim Dae Jung put his country and North Korea on their best footing in 50 years; Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat failed to reach an Israeli-Palestinian agreement; and Vicente Fox ended 70 years of P.R.I. rule in Mexico through the ballot. To people outside the U.S., the presidential election was hardly the event that contributed the most to influencing the news, for better or worse, in 2000. JOAO LUIS HAMBURGER Sao Paulo...