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Their plan--coupling a prescription for political settlement with threats of military action if the deal fails--took firm shape, officials told TIME, when the Administration privately decided after the Serb massacre of ethnic Albanians at Racak on Jan. 15 that G.I.s would have to be deployed as peacekeepers. With that decision in her purse, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sped through Europe last week, pushing the allies into an ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned...
Just showing up at peace talks won't be enough, Madeleine Albright warned Kosovo's warring factions last week -- but the Serbs on Friday made even showing up difficult for their ethnic-Albanian adversaries. The Serbs stopped four Kosovo Liberation Army delegates from leaving Pristina, insisting the men couldn't travel to the Paris talks without valid passports. "The posturing has begun," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Neither side supports NATO's peace plan, and agreed to the talks only under threat of Western military action. "They're obviously going to try and strengthen their negotiating positions...
...secretary of state's new peace plan for Kosovo "is more of a wish list than a proposal," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Although it extends NATO's military options to include peacekeeping ground troops, the plan is premised on a hypothetical agreement between the Serb government and ethnic Albanian rebels on autonomy -- but not independence -- for Kosovo. "The possibility of any agreement between the Serbs and the Albanians is very slight," says Anastasijevic. "Most ethnic Albanian parties won't even negotiate about anything short of independence, and Milosevic is exploiting that to maintain his own tough stand -- right...
...have been meeting to prepare for the next international blowup they expect by March: Kosovo. Serbian President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC halted his bloody crackdown of the rebellious province after NATO threatened to bomb him last October. But negotiations to reach a political settlement between Milosevic and the province's ethnic Albanians have stalled. U.S. diplomats managed to avert a major clash in the northern part of the province last Wednesday, when they persuaded Albanian guerrillas to free eight Serb army soldiers, but by the end of the week 45 ethnic Albanians were killed by Serb forces in the south. The White...
...plight of the Russians doesn't tweak your heart strings, how about the Albanian Kosovans. The Serb's have renewed their project of ethnic cleansing in that region, ejecting the chief U.S. peace-verifier, massacring at least one village and commencing the artillery bombardment of others...