Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which a fighter jock could be hit on an overnight raid and by sunrise be sipping coffee in Italy--and praising the Lord for helping him find the ejection handle. Stunningly, in a war that NATO believes killed some 5,000 Yugoslavs, not a single allied pilot died. Western military technology finally seemed to have transformed war into a push-button exercise. And it is on exactly this point that debate is beginning...
...into Kosovo before anyone from the West. And that?ll be a blow to a lot more than just NATO?s pride, because it shows that Moscow -- although it's all described as a big "mistake" -- doesn?t accept the second-fiddle peacekeeping role envisaged for it by the Western alliance. While NATO forces delayed their entry into the province for logistical reasons Friday, a Kosovo-bound Russian convoy raced through Serbia from Bosnia, bearing the markings of the U.N.-authorized international peacekeeping force, KFOR. Because the U.N. resolution doesn?t put NATO in charge of the peacekeeping operation, Moscow...
...worst-case scenario, failure to reach agreement with Russia creates the possibility of a Berlin 1945-style partition of Kosovo, Moscow?s gambit could also be designed for domestic consumption in Russia and Yugoslavia, emphasizing that Kosovo hasn?t been surrendered to NATO. So don?t expect Western and Russian forces to square off in a Cold War replay. Like the space race, the rush to get to Kosovo may be more about planting a flag...
...those not content to celebrate the year 2000 from just one exotic location, Harvard University Museum of Cultural and Natural History is offering a "Around the World Millennium Expedition"--planning to whisk its voyagers from Easter Island to Western Samoa and on to Timbuktu, Mali with New Guinea and Tanzania in between...
Indonesia's troubled economy has attracted plenty of attention in recent months as Western economists have tried to keep the Asian financial crisis from becoming a global recession...