Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kozyrev: Talk with ((Vladimir)) Zhirinovsky and with ((Communist Party leader Gennadi)) Zyuganov. Zyuganov drew a parallel between the Partnership for Peace and Hitler's Barbarossa plan for invading Russia! That is their mentality. The alternative is clear. Their scenario is Yugoslavia: use force to crack down on republics and re-establish the empire or whatever you chose to call...
...middle of the conversation, the L.D.P. leader suddenly had a brainstorm. On a recent trip to Yugoslavia, he said, he made valuable contacts with Serb businessmen who could be of use to his district. His Serb friends could be persuaded to put up a mini-bakery or mini-dry-cleaning service in Shchelkovo. "What you need are little things which are of immediate use to the people," he explained. "A mini-bakery would bake excellent bread." He turned to his chief of staff, Gennadi Kazantsev, and said, "Put it all down...
...newcomers are instructed by local Serb officials to "integrate" into the villages. "That means they can look for a nice Muslim house and then go get it," says Joran Bjallerstedt, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' chief protection officer for the former Yugoslavia. "They back up a truck to the house, load up anything that's salable, beat up the men, rape the women. The authorities say they can't control it. The truth is, they...
...former Yugoslavia, though the Clinton Administration's policy toward the ethnic conflict has been much maligned in the past year, Albright said the U.S. does have a concrete plan...
Reflecting its increasing frustration with the continuing war in Bosnia, France said it would withdraw 2,500 of its soldiers from the U.N. peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia within months if there is no progress toward peace. France's 6,800-member contingent -- largest in the 28,000-strong U.N. force -- is costing the country billions, a commitment French Defense Minister Francois Leotard said he is unwilling to keep up without seeing results: "No one is obliged to do the absurd...