Word: yugoslavian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will meet Milosevic after consultations in Germany and Italy, hoping to generate momentum toward a negotiated settlement. The air war continues, meanwhile. One missile appears to have strayed into a suburb of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which caused considerable alarm in a country seeking NATO membership. And on the Yugoslavian home front, President Milosevic sacked Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic from his cabinet after Draskovic publicly urged acceptance of a foreign peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Draskovic may have been a lone voice in the cabinet, but he has previously led pro-democracy demonstrations that forced important political concessions...
...bombing once Yugoslavia withdrew its military forces from Kosovo and allowed the return of refugees. It also would have required an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo after Yugoslavia's withdrawal. Annan's proposal is sound; it makes clear that the aim of the NATO intervention is not to punish Yugoslavian civilians but to protect the civilians violently uprooted in Kosovo. Without the return of refugees and the removal of Yugoslav Army units, those who wish to see an Albanian-free Kosovo will have triumphed...
Belgrade, meanwhile, has opened up a bit. Television and other journalists have been allowed to report out of the Yugoslavian capital, albeit under restrictions. "This gives some sense of how the citizenry there is reacting to the war," says ABC's Murphy. CBS News is particularly pleased to have gotten its anchorman, Dan Rather, into Belgrade. "His name recognition has allowed us to get access to various officials and places," says Marcy McGinnis, CBS vice president for news coverage...
...NATO is currently engaged in genocidal acts against all Yugoslavian citizens, Serbs and Albanians," Bovan said. "Our position has been completely silenced. It's crucial to hear the Serbian side of the story...
...Today I am Serbian, Yugoslavian, Iranian and Guatemalan," Johnson said. "I am a good American...