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...Papadopoulos is not an obvious peacemaker. He studied law in Britain and became a successful lawyer and politician, after having fought with EOKA, Cyprus' nationalist guerrilla movement, against British troops who occupied the island in the 1950s. In the 1990s, Papadopoulos was a legal adviser to Beogradska Banka, the Yugoslav state-owned bank, during Slobodan Milosevic's rule - an association that seemed at the time to bring him into conflict with U.S. officials. But with Milosevic now in jail, and a war looming against Iraq, all that appears to have changed. After all, Cyprus' strategic location and logistics and communications...
Tony Ronzone is basketball's premier frequent flyer. He has coached in Saudi Arabia, searched for a point guard in Montenegro, evaded Yugoslav border police to scout a power forward and twice visited North Korea to peek at a 7ft. 9-in. center. One September day in 1998, Ronzone was conducting a hoops clinic in Shanghai when he received an invitation to an 18th-birthday party. The birthday boy was quick, graceful--and 7 ft. 3 in. tall. Ronzone accepted. "The parents were there, maybe a few Chinese officials," Ronzone recalls. "We're all stuffed into this apartment the size...
...NETHERLANDS Tightening Net Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic surrendered himself to the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague. Prosecutors have alleged that, as a close associate of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, Milutinovic was responsible for war crimes in Kosovo...
Ever since they ousted Slobodan Milosevic two years ago in a popular uprising, Serbs have had trouble finding someone to fill his shoes. The bitter rivalry between Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and Yugoslav federal President Vojislav Kostunica has poisoned the political air, slowed the transition to a free-market economy and paralyzed the machinery of state. It also alienated the electorate. Three times in the past three months, presidential elections - dominated each time by Kostunica - have failed to muster the more than 50% of eligible voters required for a valid ballot. The current office holder, Milan Milutinovic, a relic from...
...processed. But even if these measures are implemented next year as promised, it's by no means certain that they will deter migrants. Sangatte itself is proof of how attractive passage to the U.K. remains. The Sangatte center opened in September 1999 to cope with Kosovar refugees from the Yugoslav war, who had been sleeping out in Calais parks and trying to stow away on cross-Channel ferries. Since then, the huge warehouse has become a staging post on the international smuggling route to the U.K. A staggering 60,000 people have passed through Sangatte over the past three years...