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...Paris, where Clinton had a cozy bistro dinner with French President Jacques Chirac. Next it was off to Cologne for a conference of Western leaders. Clinton ended the week with a visit to the two icons of his military campaign--scratchless U.S. air power in Italy and ruined ethnic-Albanian refugees in Macedonia...
...parts. Bits of ashen bone--a thigh, a rib cage--and chunks of roasted flesh litter the floors of burned-out houses. Corpses, left where they fell, putrefy in fields and farmyards amid the buzzing of flies and the howling of stray dogs. As the first of Kosovo's Albanian refugees stream back across the borders or down from hiding in the hills, they are discovering just how pitiless a charnel house Serbian forces made of Kosovo...
...TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "While the Times story cites no direct evidence of his involvement in any specific killing, he?s certainly never condemned that kind of behavior." Besides the alleged internecine killings, the KLA is also known to have targeted Serb and Gypsy civilians, moderate ethnic Albanian politicians and those it considered traitors. "As a hard-liner, Thaci has a very low threshold for calling people ?traitors? -? it could be an ethnic Albanian postman working for the Serb authorities, or even just one who questioned KLA strategy." If proved, the charges against Thaci could be embarrassing...
...consorting with Stalin-esque killers in Kosovo? Quite possibly, according to allegations published Friday by the New York Times. Citing current and former commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army as well as Albanian government officials, the Times reports that KLA leader Hashem Thaci and two of his lieutenants allegedly directed a purge in which as many as six rival commanders were shot dead in a bitter struggle for control of the organization. Thaci has denied the allegations. Of course, such skulduggery might be par for the course in guerrilla movements, but the KLA has been implicitly anointed as Washington...
Though the Serbs have promised to be out of Kosovo in 11 days, allied officials say it could take much longer. Some are worried that bands of departing Serbs will desert their military units and haul off after the returning Albanians. "It is not safe yet [for them] to go back in," said Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton. It is still unclear how the refugees will react to the cease-fire. Many will have to be persuaded to go home. Says Sanha Rusihti, an ethnic Albanian living in a camp in Macedonia: "I'm scared of going in, even...