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NATO is planning military exercises in Albania and Macedonia to deter further Serbian aggression against Kosovo . Background: Yugoslav President (read: Serbian strongman) Slobodan Milosevic has launched a military assault on ethnic Albanian rebels who seek Kosovar (read: ethnic Albanian) independence from Yugoslavia.
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Lawyers for Oviedo, once the army strongman behind Paraguay's disgraced President Raúl Cubas, said that Oviedo's plastic surgeon doesn't want the general's scalp exposed to sun or wind for several months.
In view of Russia's endemic corruption, American pundits are reconsidering whether a strongman president is such a bad thing.
In Russia, where terrorist bombs have killed more than 200 people in the past week, Izvestiya said that strongman Gen.