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...Excellency Dr. Janez Drnovsek, prime minister of the republic of Slovenia, spoke at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum yesterday about his unique perspective of the continuing crisis in Kosovo...
...Slovenia, which gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, has remained largely unaffected by the maelstrom that has since plunged other regions of the Balkans into conflict over the past several years...
Born in 1952 in Brezice, Slovenia, the son of a Yugoslav air force colonel, Arkan left the country as a teenager. Moving across Europe for the next 20 years, he racked up a formidable criminal record: his seven outstanding Interpol warrants include armed robbery and other crimes. In the '70s he became affiliated with the Yugoslav authorities, and by the mid '80s he was back in Belgrade, working for the state security service. In the late '80s he became the leader of a Belgrade soccer team's fan club, a group that was transformed into his paramilitary unit...
...think the Serbs are the aggressors. They attacked first Slovenia, then Croatia, then Bosnia, then Kosovo...If you look at what happened in Croatia, I can not help but conclude that there's a massive genocide going on in Kosovo," he said...
...Rubin could no longer soft-pedal the problem. South Korea is the world's 11th largest economy, America's fifth biggest trading partner, and home base for 37,000 U.S. troops who guard the border with a hostile, if starving, North Korea. Nearly every nation, from the U.S. to Slovenia, had a piece of Korea's foreign debt, and none held more than Japanese banks, which, by the standards of U.S. bank examiners, are themselves in varying states of insolvency. It didn't take much imagination to see how the dominoes might fall. A default in Korea would almost certainly...