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Moscow is promoting a plan under which NATO troops enter Kosovo as part of a peacekeeping force under neutral command while the Serbs retain some forces in the province. But Russia is threatening to quit as peace-broker if NATO bombing doesn't end soon. And there was no sign of that Friday as the alliance completed its heaviest 24-hour bombing of the entire campaign. One key indicator to watch for signs of a diplomatic breakthrough is Ahtisaari's itinerary, since he has said he won't meet with Milosevic until NATO and Russia agree to a workable peace...
...ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, making some allies more nervous about civilian casualties. Germany's Green Party, part of the government's ruling coalition, broke ranks and called for a "limited halt" to the bombing. To placate U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has been pressing for another independent broker in the peace talks, Albright enlisted Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari to possibly join Chernomyrdin's shuttle...
...anointed diplomats pushing compromises. "Kofi, we don't need negotiators running all over the place," she said. They agreed to keep discussing ways in which the U.N. envoys could be helpful in working on the political and humanitarian aspects of implementing a settlement without authorizing them to broker with Belgrade in a way that could compromise NATO's positions...
Russ Marinello, a mortgage broker for Bay Counties Financial, says 80% of the mortgages he originates are jumbos--and no, it's not his specialty. The San Francisco area is unusually pricey. But jumbo creep is a broad issue. The breakpoint adjusts annually to match the rise in the national median home price, 5% last year. Still, in places where home prices are escalating faster than that, more buyers will be pushed into jumbos...
...Jackson's visit is a sideshow in the diplomatic endgame. The man Washington is hoping will broker an honorable deal was also headed to town Thursday: Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin will meet Milosevic after consultations in Germany and Italy, hoping to generate momentum toward a negotiated settlement. The air war continues, meanwhile. One missile appears to have strayed into a suburb of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which caused considerable alarm in a country seeking NATO membership. And on the Yugoslavian home front, President Milosevic sacked Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic from his cabinet after Draskovic publicly urged acceptance...