Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cruise missiles were the silent partner in the high-stakes diplomacy going on last week to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt his brutal siege of Kosovo and negotiate with the province's ethnic Albanians. The U.S. has already used its arsenal of air- and sea-launched cruise missiles to turn out Baghdad's lights during the Gulf War, retaliate against terrorists and assassins, and force the Serbs to the peace table in Dayton, Ohio. Now Serbia and Yugoslav President Milosevic are in the crosshairs again. If the massacres of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo do not stop, NATO warns...
...Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's agreement Monday night to end attacks on ethnic Albanians made headlines, Harvard students from the region said they doubt he will keep his word...
...said he strongly approves of the actions the international community is taking and especially of the United States ultimatum on the Yugoslav president...
Skrabalo said he doubts the Yugoslav president will keep his promise. "He cannot give up if he wants to stay in power," Skrabalo said...
...Kosovo is far and away the worst of the current crises. Vowing not to permit another slaughter like Bosnia's, the NATO allies threatened Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last June with air strikes unless he halted his security forces' attacks on the rebellious Albanians. Even if Clinton hadn't been bedeviled by scandal, the threat would have been difficult to carry out. France refused to go along with military action unless the U.N. Security Council approved, and Russia promised to veto any resolution that authorized...