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Article: MILOSEVIC A MASTERFUL OPPORTUNIST.(Local)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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Byline: Holger Jensen
Slobodan Milosevic has undergone some remarkable metamorphoses since the death of Yugoslav strongman Josip Broz Tito propelled him to power.
A mediocre apparatchik when Tito called the shots, he shed his communist skin for a virulent nationalism that spawned one of the bloodiest decades in Balkan history. He started four wars. He pioneered the modern-day Holocaust known as ``ethnic cleansing.''
Yet he somehow persuaded the West he was also a peacemaker, both the arsonist and the fireman, the problem and the solution. The very Americans who called him ``Slobo-Saddam,'' the worst unindicted criminal of the Bosnian war, ...