Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuzla airfield, ground crews will have little time to gripe. The former Yugoslav airstrip for fighter planes has only one runway, on which the outlines of filled-in holes created by Serb shelling can still be plainly seen. No matter: plans call for a U.S. cargo plane to land there every 20 minutes all day and eventually through the night. And only three planes can be on the ground at any time. Can this ambitious schedule...
America then must finish what we have started and lead an international force to monitor and preserve the peace. If we have the resolution to carry it forward, yesterday will mark a victory for international security, for the Yugoslav people and for peace...
...agreed to the Bosnian demand that they be extradited to the Hague, where they have been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Last week, in a clear signal to Milosevic, the tribunal indicted two current and one former officer of the Yugoslav army for their role in the murder of 260 non-Serbs seized at a hospital in Vukovar in November 1991--the first time Belgrade has been explicitly implicated in an indictment...
...system are at a dead end. Resistance to change within a proliferation of petty baronies and bishoprics has buried in paper nearly every major reform effort. A growing view holds that the U.N. must be reinvented--pardon the expression--in a basic way. Declares Dragoljub Najman, a native Yugoslav who worked in the U.N.'s cultural arm for 30 years: "It's become too large, it's underfinanced, and it's under serious fire. The question you must ask yourself then is whether the U.N. is not headed toward some kind of disaster. I think the answer is probably...
...responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Balkan war. "Arkan started out as a big-time bank robber in Europe years ago," reports TIME's Edward Barnes. "He would literally just walk in and point a gun at someone. Later he did political killings for the old Yugoslav communist government. He operates out of an ice cream shop in Belgrade." Although Arkan is not publicly associated with the Serb president, Barnes says, "He's Milosevic's man. It's hard to believe he would have gone into Bosnia without Milosevic's consent."/P> LOCK THE PRESSES...