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Reviving the Kosovo peace process may be like reheating a souffl? -- getting it to rise a second time can take a miracle. The White House hopes that U.N. ambassador-designate Richard Holbrooke is the master chef who can pull it off. Now in Belgrade, on Wednesday Holbrooke will try to arm-twist President Slobodan Milosevic into signing the troubled peace deal. "Milosevic is hanging tough," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But the deal is ultimately in his interests, and that may lead him eventually to sign." That and Holbrooke's powers of persuasion: The U.S. envoy brandished...
...described by State Department emissaries as "vicious" and "unrealistic." Says a relieved U.S. official: "He turns out to have real leadership qualities and real political courage." Surroi, a stocky, square-jawed intellectual who smokes a pipe and talks in a gravelly monotone, is the son of a former ambassador from Yugoslavia to Mexico and Spain. His global upbringing gave him fluency in Spanish and English in addition to his native Albanian and Serbo-Croat. He is popular with diplomats. "Unlike the other [ethnic Albanians], he speaks the language of foreign policy," says an observer...
...Kenya was just a temporary solution of two or three days," says Failos Kranidiotis, the guerrilla's Greek lawyer. After that, Ocalan was expected to move permanently to another African state. According to Kenyan officials, his unmarked jet landed in Nairobi at 11:33 p.m. Kenyan authorities say Greek Ambassador George Costoulas met the plane and whisked its passengers past immigration controls...
Holed up at the ambassador's villa, Ocalan was soon joined by three female followers and a team of lawyers. The activity raised suspicions and, according to Greek sources, attracted the attention of FBI agents in Nairobi investigating last year's U.S. embassy bombing. On Feb. 12 four Greek intelligence agents told Ocalan to "move out as soon as possible because his whereabouts had been spotted." They offered to hide him at a local Greek Orthodox church or fly him to another state. "Ocalan turned down all the options," recounts Kranidiotis, who was with him in Nairobi, "but the officers...
...next day, Kenyan officials appeared at the residence and demanded Ocalan's departure. When the ambassador called Athens for instructions, the response was blunt: "Boot him out," said Pangalos. By nightfall, after a final telephone call from Pangalos, Ocalan had agreed to leave on the understanding that he would be transported to the Netherlands under Greek protection...