Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said she was in favor of a "strong, NATO-led force" to reinstate Kosovar refugees in their homeland, and advocated a harsh punishment for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic...
...finally over? After exhaustive negotiations, Yugoslav generals Wednesday night signed a detailed agreement on withdrawing their forces from Kosovo. The pact is expected to bring an end to NATO?s bombing -? Germany says that?s already effectively happened; NATO?s spokesman insists it?ll happen as soon as the Serbs hit the road. But even with international peacekeepers poised to enter the province and make it safe for returning refugees, the struggle for Kosovo may be far from over. "Experience tells us to expect Milosevic to do his utmost to stall, perhaps not withdrawing all of his forces and seeking...
...deal is being implemented, Belgrade will refer to the letter of the resolution in order to challenge NATO?s interpretations," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "For example, they?re claiming the right to screen the returning refugees on the grounds that the agreement specifies continued Yugoslav control over Kosovo?s border crossings. So despite reaching agreement, NATO?s still going to have to show a lot of determination to realize its objectives in Kosovo." In other words, don't expect the peacekeepers home in time for the New Hampshire primary...
...wandered away from the Yugoslav escorts, a little boy recognized a Western accent and ran to get his father. The man waved me inside. In a furtive whisper, speaking in Albanian with a few words of English, he said two Yugoslav tanks had been hidden in the village. Why bomb here? Because military police had been living in the Albanian houses. At night they stood outside those homes and fired rockets at the planes. Showing pictures of his children, the man said his family had left for Macedonia. He would join them soon. In Kosovo you are a potential target...
...bomber struck the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last month, mistaking it for a Serbian military-supply building, State Department and Pentagon officials placed discreet phone calls to foreign missions in Washington. Could you please provide us, they asked, with the address of your embassy in the Yugoslav capital? The embassies were only too happy to supply the info. Some of the more wary foreign capitals, in fact, had phoned in the addresses to NATO immediately after the attack...