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President Slobodan Milosevic over the weekend reiterated his acceptance of the Bonn Accord signed by Russia and the leading NATO countries, but that agreement is open to such diverse interpretation that it will require some nimble diplomatic choreography to turn it into a workable peace plan. At issue: When NATO stops its bombing; the nature of NATO involvement in the U.N.-authorized peacekeeping force for Kosovo; and the size of the Yugoslavian military presence allowed to remain in the province. One indicator of the progress of peace talks is Ahtisaari's schedule. He's indicated that he'll accompany Chernomyrdin...
...extensive European and U.N. credentials, has been tapped by European NATO members to represent them as a mediator, but has said he'll go to Belgrade only when Russia and NATO have resolved their differences so as to deny Milosevic any wiggle room. Despite signing on to the Bonn accord agreed by the G8 countries, which comprise Russia and the leading NATO countries, Moscow and Washington have been arguing over the nature of a Kosovo peace force and over the phasing of an end to the alliance's bombing campaign...
Belgrade for its part said Tuesday it was ready to "cut a deal" based on the Bonn accord despite reservations over some of its provisions. Of course, mediators still face the challenge of choreographing the sequence of agreements, troop withdrawals and bombing halts that will define the peace process. G8 envoys met in Bonn Wednesday to finesse the peace plan and draft a U.N. resolution authorizing it. The big losers in any diplomatic solution may be the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had enjoyed something of an informal alliance with NATO during the past eight weeks. The G8 principles call...
...received a call from a Cambridge resident who said her motor vehicle had been struck from behind while sitting at a traffic light on Mass. Ave. The victim was stuck in traffic when she was rear-ended by a Honda Accord. The operator then exited the vehicle and struck the car that she had just hit on the window with her fist while yelling at the victim to get out of the car so she could break her face. The victim then fled the scene. She said she thought the suspect had followed her home from work in Waltham...
...Kosovo campaign. NATO's decision to bomb Yugoslavia brought Washington's relations with Moscow to a ten-year low, and the latest tragedy may strengthen the hand of anti-Western elements within the Chinese leadership. NATO now faces the increasingly complicated challenge of maintaining its hard-won accord with Russia over the peace process at the same time as maintaining pressure on Belgrade. "NATO won't easily suspend the bombing because it knows it may be politically unable to restart it," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The alliance may even have been planning to intensify the bombing...