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...then Ilic's 100-man inner core of former military men, bodybuilders and karate-club members had a bolder plan. "We were playing for all or nothing," says Ilic. "We wanted to get rid of Slobo once and for all, and we knew we could only achieve that by liberating the parliament and television." Ilic organized several thousand Cacak men and busted through six police roadblocks to lead his shock troops into the capital...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Middle East is a mess, but Slobo's fall validates your hawkishness and your life story...
...think we've got one of those gaffes that people remember. Twenty-four years after Gerald Ford said the Russians didn't dominate Eastern Europe, George W. Bush just invited them back in to play a larger role. As Gore pointed out, the Russians tend to lean Slobo's way. The whole Bush emphasis on foreign policy has been that we coddled Yeltsin and the Russians. Now he's sent an engraved invitation to Moscow. Weird...
...watching, Slobo? Pay attention, Saddam. It's been a bad week for tyrants everywhere, what with Wednesday's reported decision by Chile's high court to strip General Augusto Pinochet of his self-authored immunity from human rights prosecutions, followed by Thursday's indictment of former Indonesian strongman Suharto on corruption charges. Retirement, it seems, is the hardest part of despotism...
...Socialist Party scheduled a rally of his supporters there at the same time ? and in the same place ? as an opposition rally. Although only a few dozen Milosevic supporters showed up to confront the 4,000 opposition protestors, the move reveals Milosevic's strategy for coping with popular discontent. "Slobo wants some heads broken in confrontations between his supporters and opponents," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "Then he?ll step forward, playing on the fear of civil war in Serbia, and present himself as the only person capable of ensuring peace. It?s the strategy...