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WASHINGTON - The horrifying
images are the same: burned corpses
from overrun villages, women and babies
caught in the slaughter, tens of
thousands of hungry refugees exposed
to the coming winter.
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
is once again behind the Serb war,
this time with ethnip Albanians in Kosovo,
but the situation is far different from
fighting Serb forces led in Bosnia, shocking
the world with "ethnic cleansing"
and 200,000 deaths.
For one thing, the Kosovo province
of Serbia is in Milosevic's territory, which
makes it politically tougher for NATO
to carry out threatened airstrikes if he
does not halt his aggression and negotiate
peace with secessionists. Yugoslavia
did not invite international intervention
? something Bosnia did in
the early 1990s ? and some European
members of NATO are balking at violating
a sovereign state.
* Also, unlike with the Bosnian government
that fought Milosevic's Serb
comrades, the United States and its European
allies do not back the Kosovo
Liberation Army, which also is accused
of atrocities and has no official standing
to negotiate.
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to recruit African-American professors
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other black faculty upon her resignation.
"I am sad to see Dr. Pigford leave,
but at the same time, I take exception
to the fact that [she] stated that there
is not a plan for diversity here," Gist
said.
Gist applauded Pigford's AfricanAmerican
Professors Program, which
was uesignea m an effort to recruit more
blacks into the teaching ranks. He said
the university will continue to "give 100
percent to this program."
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The guerrilla group is leading the
battle for an independent Kosovo that
Western nations do not support because
they fear it could spur nationalists seeking
a "greater Albania" and cause further
turmoil in the Balkans.
Then there is Milosevic himself.
While still a force in the region, he is
less politically powerful now as president
of the smaller Yugoslav federation
than he was as leader of Serbia and its
military campaign for greater turf.
Nonetheless, he remains a wily opponent.
"He learned the lessons of Bosnia
much better than we did," said Robert
Kagan, a foreign policy specialist at the
Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace. "We seemed to have not
learned much about how to deal with
Milosevic," who has "demonstrated a
keen sense of when repeated threats of
force will become real."
"He's what I would call a bully-coward,"
Kagan added. "He's very aggressive
until confronted with real force."
In the case of Bosnia, the multi-ethnic
government asked for intervention
to halt Serb attacks and NATO carried
out broad airstrikes for about a month,
starting in August 1995 ? but only after
two-and-a-half years of empty
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Gist said he is not alarmed when a
faculty member leaves for a better opportunity.
"I don't know why Dr. Pigford decided
to leave USC," Gist said. "She
said it was a personal and private decision;
I think we should leave it at
that."
Provost Jerry Odom recently met
with African-American junior faculty
to discuss their feelings about the university
and ways to enhance their professional
life in such a way that will
help the university retain them.
Gist said both Odom and President
John Palms are very receptive and conscious
of the need to support faculty
members when they come in, and that
the tenure and promotional system at
USC are not discriminatory.
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NATO warplanes hit Serb military
targets hard after earlier pinprick strikes
simply emboldened Milosevic and failed
to get the Bosnian Serbs to pull their
big guns away from Sarajevo, the besieged
Bosnian capital.
NATO's military attack ? the first
from the Cold War-era alliance formed
to counter the former Soviet Union ?
resulted in a cease-fire in Bosnia and
brought the parties to the peace table
with U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke,
who brokered the Dayton peace accords
that were sealed in Paris in December
1995.
The agreement split Bosnia and created
a power-sharing central government
between the original Bosnian government
and Croatia ? which both had
broken from Yugoslavia ? and the
Bosnian Serbs, who were represented
in the peace talks by Milosevic.
In Kosovo, it is just the Serb army
and police against the ethnic Albaniand
who comprise 90 percent of the population
of 2 million in the province which
Milosevic stripped of autonomy in 1989.
Serbia and Montenegro make up whaf s
left of Yugoslavia.
Holbrooke returned to the region
last week to press Milosevic with a
delayed autonomy plan for Kosovo. NATO,
meanwhile, geared up for possible
airstrikes if the Yugoslav does not meet
Ity to address issues
"We have got to get away with making
race an issue on everything," Gist
said. "When an outstanding white professor
leaves the university, The Gamecock
doesn't write about that."
Despite the loss of four AfricanAmerican
professors in the past year,
Gist noted five tenure-track black faculty
were hired between September
1997 and September 1998.
Four tenure-track black faculty were
hired the year before.
Gist still acknowledges a problem
exists, and his office has proposed a
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U.N. demands to withdraw his forces,
open the region to humanitarian agencies
and negotiate peace with the ethnic
Albanians.
Ivo Daalder, who worked at the
White House's National Security Coun
cii trom 1995 to 1991, said the only longterm
solution to peace is a Balkans without
Milosevic.
"He has remained in power because
we give him power," said Daalder, who
complains the Clinton administration
hasn't supported Milosevic's political
opponents. "The two parties in this conflict
will not agree politically to solve it
no matter what rabbit Holbrooke pulls
out of his hat in Belgrade. This is a civil
war, a real war with two sides."
Milosevic says he is fighting to retain
Yugoslavia's border integrity,
but he also is battling for his political
life; a new reformist government in
Montenegro has been tilting toward the
West and could conceivably split from
Yugoslavia, killing the federation.
"He whipped up the whole situation
in Kosovo so he could maintain his power
base and destabilize Montenegro,"
where many refugees have fled, said
Michael Salla, an international affairs
specialist at American University in
Washington. "He's playing a really clever
game."
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-One thing that can cause disruption
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and the like.
Slow access is an ongoing problem,
but steps are being taken to resolve
this.
People are monitoring problematic
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the disruption. They can then focus
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to get them up and running once
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