Word: bonnes
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Another key fund raiser is Bujar Bukoshi. One of the two would-be Prime Ministers of a still nonexistent Republic of Kosova, the Bonn-based Bukoshi claims that his government-in-exile has spent more than $4 million on arms and supplies for the K.L.A. in the weeks since NATO bombings began. At Bukoshi's request his "finance minister"--extremely nervous and clearly on edge--presents a computer printout that he says documents part of the Republic of Kosova Fund's holdings in a bank in Tirana, Albania: more than $33 million...
...conference room aboard Air Force One, after Berger and Cohen briefed Clinton on military issues, she presented her plan for getting Russia to accept publicly an international security force for Kosovo at a G-8 (the seven major industrial nations plus Russia) foreign ministers' meeting she had convened in Bonn...
...Thursday morning, Albright and her entourage broke away from the President's tour and took their own Air Force jet up to Bonn for the G-8 meeting. With a red folder marked INTEL on her lap, she conducted her regular morning staff meeting on the short flight. "Slobo's feeling the heat," she said, a twinkle in her eye, as she glanced up from a memo on how Milosevic was putting some former top military men under house arrest...
...soon as she arrived at the Petersberg conference center, a castle overlooking Bonn, Albright held a private meeting with Russia's Ivanov. It was planned with three aides for each side, but they decided to do it one-on-one, without even interpreters (each understands the other's language). They wrestled over the wording he would accept in the G-8 statement, which would be Russia's first public endorsement of an international force for Kosovo. Albright proposed calling it a "military force." Ivanov replied that he would agree only to calling it a "presence...
...from NATO to cut a deal acceptable to Milosevic," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The key sticking point to a peace deal -- as at the Rambouillet talks in February -- has been the scope and nature of an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and Thursday's accord in Bonn is vague enough on that issue to be sold to both sides. Fudging the contentious issues, of course, allows the political momentum of the peace process to be locked in, ending the war even as significant differences remain. "There's probably a lot more movement on the diplomatic front than...