Word: slobodan
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...ruler gets defeated in election, but wants to remain in office; a popular uprising forces him from power; the elected opposition leader is sworn in as new leader. This, however, is where the two stories diverge. Vojislav Kostunica won in Yugoslavias first free elections and rightfully claimed victory over Slobodan Milosevic. However, Laurent Gbagbo, who claimed victory in the Ivorty Coast election, did not win over former General Robert Gue in an entirely democratic election, since two other major opposition parties were excluded from the ballot, one of which is the party of Alassane Ouattara who most prominently represents...
...based in London, stepping back into the world of what he calls "'real' journalism--reporting and writing stories rather than shepherding other people's prose into print." Not that Redman has had an unexciting tenure. During the past few weeks alone, he has directed coverage of the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and the crisis in the Middle East...
...Although he previously had Washington's ear as the popular, pacifist advocate of independence for Kosovo, that changed after the Rambouillet talks early in 1999 when the West began to gear up to fight Slobodan Milosevic for control of the territory. The war saw Rugova eclipsed by the KLA leadership, and by the time it ended State Department officials were feting Thaci and expressing wariness over Rugova. But the continuing violence in Kosovo, which includes both attacks on the remaining Serbs and internecine Albanian turf wars, may have turned many Kosovar Albanians back to Rugova, particularly in light...
They bombed him. They negotiated with him. They isolated him. For years the Americans tried just about everything they could to get rid of Slobodan Milosevic. And when he emerged from last year's 78-day NATO bombing campaign still in power, U.S. officials were left scratching their heads, wondering what it would take to get rid of the guy. So they reached for their checkbooks. Over the past year, the U.S. has spent about $40 million to support Yugoslavia's independent media, trade unions and civic groups and to boost the U.S.-friendly President Milo Djukanovic of Montenegro...
...SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC Ding dong the ethnic cleanser's gone. Slav brothers wary of asylum. You're no Idi Amin...