Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vital questions in the case, authorities seemed no closer to determining exactly why or by whom the three were abducted. According to a reliable report, Sund and the girls were last seen Feb. 15, the day after they checked in to the Cedar Lodge, a hotel on Yosemite's western edge. Pelosso, the daughter of a friend Sund met in 1973, when she spent her high school senior year in Argentina, had joined the Sunds for a three-month vacation. The Sunds had shown her Disneyland and the Bay Area, and on Feb. 12, Sund flew to San Francisco with...
...ethnic Albanians were the first to see sense. Their upstart army, the K.L.A., had won international confirmation of its meteoric rise to pre-eminent power in the would-be state. By appearing to be willing to give up their arms and dream of independence in exchange for a strong Western umbrella, the Kosovars could show up Serb belligerence. It was smart tactics: if the Serbs refused to go along, the Kosovars wouldn't have to give up anything. So the ethnic Albanians sat down and signed the deal...
...fires out. But the Kosovo conflagration he first lighted in 1989--by stripping away the rights of the ethnic Albanians who make up 90% of the province's population--is proving tricky to put out. Now he faces a perilous calculus: Is it riskier to cave in to Western demands or to suffer through air strikes...
...Milosevic makes these calculations in virtual isolation. He rarely appears in public, never travels anywhere. He nominally consults an inner circle of perhaps 15, but his only true adviser is his ambitious, neocommunist wife Mira Markovic. "His pride at being a guy everyone comes to is huge," says a Western diplomat. "But his purpose is to throw people into confusion...
...wide range of K.L.A. leaders, from bloodthirsty terrorists who target civilians to patriots ready to die for their putative country. Some commanders are outright criminals. Interpol cops say parts of the K.L.A. are funded by profits from smuggling along the infamous "Balkan route," the main line for 90% of Western Europe's heroin...