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...Subsequent U.S. actions hardened this conclusion. They're laid out clearly in Asymmetrical Warfare Theory, a book published two years ago by three officers from the Nanjing Military Region which is tasked with attacking Taiwan, and bears a stamp reading "internal military distribution." The authors critique U.S. actions in Yugoslavia and Africa and draw disturbing lessons. For one thing, they write, the U.S. wouldn't have dared launch its long-distance strikes against Serbia if Belgrade had possessed "the ability to take the war into the enemy's territory"?as China can do with missiles that can hit U.S. bases...
...DIED. ROBERT KIRSCHNER, 61, forensic pathologist who collected evidence from alleged massacre sites in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to help convict perpetrators of genocide; in Chicago. Kirschner's work took him on dozens of missions on behalf of human-rights organizations and U.N. tribunals. Despite the grisly nature of his occupation, which involved sifting through human remains, he once said he was more disturbed by "trying to contemplate what goes through someone's mind that allows them to do this kind of thing...
...been away from home for more than a year now, held by the United Nations at its war-crimes tribunal in the Hague. But each morning he returns to Serbia via the airwaves, the familiar pink cheeks and silvery hair reclaiming their place on TV sets across the former Yugoslavia. For the president of the National Committee for the Liberation of Slobodan Milosevic, an organization of hard-liners, it's a welcome sight. "I am proud of our President," says Bogoljub Bjelica. "He is superior in every way." That view is widely shared in Serbia. Approval of the ex-President...
...Numbers 17,934 Japanese will be more than 100 years old this year, an increase of about 2,500 from last year, according to a government survey 3 fatal heart attacks were attributed to Yugoslavia's cliffhanger overtime victory over Argentina in the World Basketball Championships 77 people were arrested and 32 injured during celebrations in Belgrade after Yugoslavia's victory $18,000 is how much it costs to have a proper wedding in Shanghai, or eight years' salary for the average urban worker, according to China Daily $6.4 billion is how much money police say eight suspects laundered...
...notably among the region's Muslim population. Those alliances are still paying political dividends today. But now that era may be coming to an end. Seven years after U.S. warplanes first roared over the mountains of central Bosnia, America is gradually, deliberately relinquishing its leadership role in the former Yugoslavia. In its place, eager to flex its own foreign policy muscles, the European Union is reasserting control. The consequences for the region depend in part on how quickly and completely the U.S. decides to leave and how soon Europe can overcome its historical rivalries to speak with one voice. Balkan...