Word: yugoslavias
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...idea in Washington, because the NATO forces sent to keep a cold peace may soon find themselves caught in a hot war. Four Serbian policemen were reported killed and several wounded with heavily armed Albanian guerrilla units inside Serbia Wednesday, while a bomb blast at the Pristina residence of Yugoslavia's representative in Kosovo killed one man and wounded another. The renewed attacks coincide with mounting frustration among more nationalist Kosovar Albanians that the political changes in Belgrade, and the rapprochement with the West those have precipitated, have put their own campaign for independence in geopolitical limbo. And suspicion naturally...
...government in Belgrade has denounced the alleged infiltration of some 400 ethnic-Albanian guerrillas into the area from Kosovo, and has warned that unless the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force clamps down on such activity, Yugoslavia would be forced send its own army in to deal with the problem. Although inside Serbia, the ethnic-Albanian villages fall within the demilitarized zone established at the end of the Kosovo conflict, which allows Belgrade to maintain only police units there. The nationalist attacks on Serbian policemen appear to mimic the earlier strategy of the KLA, which used such attacks to goad Belgrade...
...conducted a number of raids against suspected guerrilla bases inside Kosovo. While the U.S. may look more sympathetically on demands for Kosovo's independence, most NATO members remain strongly opposed - and the U.N. resolution enabling the peacekeeping mission recognizes that the territory will remain an autonomous part of Yugoslavia...
Slobodan Milosevic intimidated, oppressed and nearly strangled the people of Yugoslavia, but when the day of reckoning came for the tyrant, he had no choice but to step aside [WORLD, Oct. 16]. This is a good lesson for the elected and military-backed regimes in Africa. It doesn't matter whether a person is voted into office or comes to power through the barrel of a gun; nobody can go against the will of the people forever. USMAN MALAH Lagos...
...relieved that a civil war has not erupted in Yugoslavia [WORLD, Oct. 16], but the issue of Slobodan Milosevic is still front and center. He must be held accountable for his crimes. How can the West give billions of dollars to the new government without a promise that Milosevic will be held liable for the murders and the torture committed by him and his supporters? HAROLD BECKER Toronto...