Word: yugoslavias
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Though NATO attacks would not begin for another four months, in order to get into Yugoslavia they had to apply for tourist visas--everyone who had applied for visas as humanitarian workers had been denied...
Shortly after their return, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia and refugees began flooding across the borders of neighboring states. Barron and Leaning returned to the Balkans in April and early May to find out what had happened to the doctors they had met on their previous trips...
...losers in any diplomatic solution may be the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had enjoyed something of an informal alliance with NATO during the past eight weeks. The G8 principles call for them to be disarmed, while guaranteeing a political autonomy that falls short of their demand for independence from Yugoslavia. The insurgents are unlikely to accept those terms -- but then, should they choose to fight on, the KLA will become the peacekeepers' problem rather than Milosevic...
...polite affair, marked by strict rules of engagement, pinpoint attacks on army units and lots of examples of NATO planes returning to base with all their bombs because they couldn't be sure of dropping their payloads on the right place. Last week that changed. Across 70% of Yugoslavia, elevators creaked to a halt, faucets dribbled, stoves cooled and TVs blackened. Traffic lights and tram lines were out, and pump failures forced Serbs to the Danube River for water to flush their toilets. And as the bombing expanded, so did the civilian casualties. On Friday night an allied warplane--most...
...ruination caused by every misaimed bomb is televised worldwide, while the wholesale horrors wrought by Belgrade's paramilitaries in Kosovo are hidden from view. And while allied mistakes may be rare, if the war is literally brought into your living room, NATO's overall accuracy is small consolation. Inside Yugoslavia, at least, it is becoming harder for many to see the distinction between targeting civilian life-styles and targeting civilians...