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...charm and force in the pursuit of a policy based on pure pragmatism and an underlying belief that the U.S. can help restore order to the badly fractured Balkans. In the past month, Albright has moved to the center of U.S. negotiations over the fate of the ethnic Albanians living inside the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. Last Saturday, after jetting back to France, Albright hiked up and down stairs for nine hours in the drafty 14th century castle in which talks were under way, carrying proposals between hard-line Serb negotiators and Kosovo guerrilla chieftains...
...NATO focused on forcing Milosevic to accept peacekeeping troops in Kosovo, hard-line rebels took over the ethnic Albanian delegation. "That made life a lot easier for Milosevic," says Anastasijevic. So no bombs, no agreement and -- as both sides let their weapons do the talking in new clashes in Kosovo Tuesday -- no sign of peace...
...Dick Holbrooke -- or NATO bombers. Yugoslav president and Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic stretched the U.S.' Kosovo ultimatum to the breaking point late Tuesday by ruling out a NATO ground force in his country. After meeting with U.S. envoy Christopher Hill -- who was bearing news that the ethnic Albanian rebels appeared ready to deal -- Milosevic released a statement saying, "Our negative stand about the presence of foreign troops is not only the attitude of the leadership, but also of all citizens in our country." Bluster? Definitely. Bluff? Madeleine Albright certainly hopes so -- because she's made the U.S. position very clear...
PARIS: At least they're eating together. With barely a week to go before NATO's Kosovo talks deadline, the Serb and ethnic Albanian delegations have yet to negotiate face-to-face. Diplomats scurry back and forth between the two sides, although they're all in the same room for buffet-style meals, reports TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley. "The challenge is to create an agreement that both sides can present differently," says Crumley. "The Serbs need to be able to sell the agreement as ending any prospect of independence for Kosovo, while the Kosovars have...
...Serbs and the disparate Albanian groups have until Feb. 6 to sit down in a chateau in Rambouillet, 30 miles from Paris. Then they have a week, or at most two, to sign a formal pact in which Kosovo gets its autonomy for three years and Milosevic keeps his hands off. In 2002 the parties to the struggle, presumably cooled off, can negotiate a final arrangement...