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...kind of prelude, Bush spelled out for the first time where and when the U.S. might finally intervene in the blood-soaked Balkans. Diplomats disclosed a letter to Serbian officials in which Bush warned them not to try anything in Kosovo, a mostly Albanian province that the Serbs may subject to Bosnia-style "ethnic cleansing." If Serbia does cause a conflict there, said Bush, the U.S. is "prepared to employ military force ((presumably bombing)) against the Serbs in Kosovo and in Serbia proper." In all, it was a flurry of foreign policy activity that might be expected from a President...
Military officers in Washington deny that, and most still argue that putting ground troops into the Balkans is unthinkable. One senior Defense official, however, refuses to be absolute in his denial. If Serbs march into the province of Kosovo, which has an Albanian majority, in an attempt at "ethnic cleansing," says the official, "all bets are off." There is contingency planning to handle that, he confirms, just as there is for almost any possible crisis. But he admits that "a prudent military leadership cannot ignore the possibility this will blow...
...troops and supplies, even as NATO officials in Brussels contemplate plans for enforcing the ban. Fear of fighting yet to come compelled the Security Council to approve sending monitors to Macedonia, and President Bush urged the same for neighboring Kosovo, where tensions are high between Serbs and the ethnic Albanian majority. A shipment of construction material did reach Montenegro to prevent some 7 million tons of toxic sludge from breaking through a dangerously weakened dam and flowing into the Danube River system...
...resistance. In May they evaded attempts by Serbs to block unauthorized elections, but their new assembly has been barred from meeting. The President of the unrecognized Independent ! Republic of Kosovo, Democratic League leader Ibrahim Rugova, says, "We hold meetings every week with local representatives" despite repeated Serb arrests of Albanian activists...
...more likely help, Kosovars must look instead to their ethnic brethren in Albania and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where an estimated 30% or more of the population is Albanian, and possibly to fellow Muslims in Iran, Turkey and elsewhere. That inevitably raises the threat of a wider war. Serbian forces are not expected to respect international borders if Albania gives sanctuary to Kosovar fighters. Macedonia, now led by moderates in a delicate coalition that seeks full recognition of its own independence despite bitter Greek opposition, could feel compelled to intervene on behalf of the Kosovars lest their...