Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hottest ticket in Belgrade is for a movie called Knife, a dramatic slice of the Yugoslav national theme--ethnic anguish. Serbs are packing theaters to see it for another reason as well. It is based on a novel by Vuk Draskovic, who for years has been dramatic himself in public life as a journalist, dissident and rival to President Slobodan Milosevic. The film's plot concerns a young man brought up by a Muslim woman. Muslim boy meets Serbian girl; boy loses girl because both families object. Later, he discovers he is a Serb. The message, says Draskovic...
...been accused of being a draft dodger, a smuggler and an all-around bully, but is MARKO MILOSEVIC just misunderstood? Last week in the town of Pozarevac, the son of Yugoslav President Slobodan cut the ribbon on Bambi Park, an amusement park he had built even as the air war raged. Marko says the park offers "proof of care for the young generation." For the older generation, proof of Marko's care can be seen at Madona, a nightclub enticingly advertised as the largest in the Balkans. It threatened to start its own skirmish when Liz Rosenberg, the other Madonna...
...another American President has put his faith in the spooks from Langley to get rid of an unsavory leader, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. As NATO warplanes roared over Serbia this spring, Bill Clinton signed a secret presidential "finding" giving the CIA the green light to try to topple Milosevic's regime. The agency's covert operation, sources tell TIME, is part of a wide-ranging plan Clinton has approved to oust the Serbian strongman. On the record, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says, "We are making it quite clear that we don't see Milosevic in the future...
...private financial transactions and electronically drain his overseas bank accounts. (Intelligence officials suspect he has money socked away in Switzerland, Cyprus, Greece, Russia and China.) The CIA also hopes to funnel cash secretly to opposition groups inside Yugoslavia as well as recruit dissidents within the Belgrade government and the Yugoslav military. Last month roads in four Serbian towns and villages were blocked by young reservists protesting the army's failure to pay them for two months...
...Monday observed the anniversary of their historic defeat in Kosovo by the Ottoman Empire in 1389, one question facing NATO is what exactly compelled Milosevic to surrender the province 610 years later. The impact of the bombing campaign appears to have weighed less on the fighting ability of the Yugoslav army in Kosovo than on the civilian infrastructure in Serbia proper. And many analysts believe it was actually the prospect of a ground invasion by NATO that forced the Serb leader?s turnabout. But the question is about a lot more than apportioning credit: Conventional wisdom holds that bombing alone...