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...security threats in the troubled Balkan fiefdom. The House of Representatives Tuesday voted to withdraw U.S. forces by next year unless Europe shoulders more responsibility for stabilizing the region, and the Senate will consider similar legislation on Friday. "But even if the legislation passes," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi, "a year from now when it's made clear that the war will restart as soon as the Americans leave because Slobodan Milosevic would love to get back in there, Congress will back down. The Europeans accept that Kosovo is ultimately their responsibility and are moving to run these operations...
...Kosovo, but the slow progress on that front may have more to do with the security situation than with funding. "There's no law and order, no judicial system, no functioning native police - it's a mess, and all of the peacekeeping forces are not making it work," says Calabresi. "It's not as if the U.S. is out there aggressively stabilizing Kosovo and pursuing nation-building. Congress isn't exactly pushing U.S. troops to go out and take risks by pursuing the more aggressive policing duties without which the situation won't be stabilized." A year after NATO...
...Reported by Maryanne Murray Buechner/Helsinki, Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/ Washington, David Jackson/Los Angeles, Eric Roston, Wilson Rothman and Jyoti Thottam/New York, Nelly Sindayen/Manila, Ursula Sautter/Bonn and Wendy Kan/Hong Kong
...Massimo Calabresi and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...list (and the harsh sanctions that come with it) is somewhat of a stretch. "North Korea may have a couple of old-time Japanese Red Army terrorists from the '70s still kicking around there, but it's not considered an active sponsor of terrorism," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "But the U.S. is actively using North Korea's presence on that list as a bargaining chip in negotiations to get Pyongyang to back off on proliferating its missile systems." The State Department report suggests that North Korea might eventually be taken off the list, in light of its "positive...