Word: yugoslavias
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...full independence. Milosevic has called the bluff of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who has been moving steadily in the direction of seceding. Belgrade has now signaled clearly that it's willing to risk violent confrontation to keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic, and the Serb leader would happily send in his army to back them up in a showdown with Djukanovic. That would force NATO to either intervene or stand back and watch...
...NATO aircraft lit the sky over Yugoslavia at the start of Operation Allied Force last year, NATO's political leaders were stating that "NATO is not at war with Yugoslavia." Tell that to the pilots who flew night and day against the missiles and antiaircraft fire over Serbia and who saw the effects of the ethnic cleansing on the ground...
...pilots--unlike those who led the way into Iraq and Yugoslavia--will no longer have to play hide-and-seek with enemy radar and deadly antiaircraft missiles. Before U.S. troops enter hostile airspace, a fleet of unmanned combat air vehicles will have attacked missile batteries capable of shooting down any troop-carrying aircraft. Sensors aboard each drone will detect targets, which will be attacked--after receipt of a human command--by the aircraft's precision-guided munitions...
...seven centuries to understand this Balkans thing, and still it's not happening. "Three antagonists is one too many. Maybe it's two too many," says Joe Sacco, who spent 4 1/2 months in the former Yugoslavia to report his epic comic book, Safe Area Gorazde (Fantagraphics; 230 pages; $28.95), due out next month. "People can follow what's going on in a soap opera but can't follow what's going on in Bosnia...
Despite their hopes for the future of the former Yugoslavia, the leaders said they realized that opposition to Milosevic will not be easy...