Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kosovo's Albanians set out from their refuges last week with such high hopes but arrived to such horror. The impact of those pit graves and decomposing bodies, incinerated villages and pulverized cities will haunt the Balkans for generations. In Washington the White House is busy searching for a leader to replace Milosevic if the defeated strongman falls. Clinton is expected this week to meet Milo Djukanovic, Montenegro's useful pro-Western President, and U.S. diplomats met secretly last week with Belgrade political opponents in hopes of promoting a homegrown challenge to Milosevic. Washington refuses to cooperate with Yugoslavia...
...World Cup will be staged over the next three weeks in seven venues: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York/New Jersey, Portland, Ore., San Francisco/San Jose and Washington. The final will be played at the Rose Bowl on July 10. And if the U.S. is playing for the trophy, the 92,542-seat stadium could sell out, setting a new record...
...most visible of the five is usually the vice president for government and public affairs. Currently Paul S. Grogan, he oversees Harvard's lobbying efforts in Washington and Boston, its interaction with the City of Cambridge and its Office of Public Affairs...
...those it considered traitors. "As a hard-liner, Thaci has a very low threshold for calling people ?traitors? -? it could be an ethnic Albanian postman working for the Serb authorities, or even just one who questioned KLA strategy." If proved, the charges against Thaci could be embarrassing for Washington, which on Thursday put a $5 million bounty on the head of another war thug, Slobodan Milosevic. The U.S. association with Thaci may also be dangerous for the Balkans as a whole. "The KLA hasn?t abandoned its goal of creating a Greater Albania, and pictures of U.S. officials alongside...
...directed a purge in which as many as six rival commanders were shot dead in a bitter struggle for control of the organization. Thaci has denied the allegations. Of course, such skulduggery might be par for the course in guerrilla movements, but the KLA has been implicitly anointed as Washington?s political partner in Kosovo. As early as the Rambouillet talks in February, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright initiated a friendly photo opportunity with Thaci and his delegation, and last week pressed unsuccessfully for NATO to agree to the KLA's forming a provisional army for Kosovo. Last Monday...