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The cover review of a new Madeleine Albright biography argues that she had a personal stake in the Kosovo conflict because Slobodan Milosevic represents the two evil forces that shaped her childhood: communism, which her father claimed drove him from his beloved Czechoslovakia, and ethnic hatred, which led to the Holocaust in which three of her grandparents perished.
At least 7,000 troops died, the king included (though many refused to believe he had perished, and Elvis-like sightings were common).
Each leaf bears the name of a Budapest family that perished in the Holocaust.
One cub perished after Ling-Ling sat on it.
His mother perished in the shipwreck.