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...Kosovo - and more important, perhaps, hints at the fact that NATO's troop presence needs to be maintained, or even expanded, to prevent a renewed outbreak of hostilities. "If NATO left either Bosnia or Kosovo, they'd be back at war within months," says TIME State Department correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "Although things are certainly immeasurably better now than they were a year ago, the deep-seated political problems are by no means solved...
...force, which Washington hopes will eventually take over a mission that may well require a permanent commitment. "It's perfectly fair for Robertson to say that the region is more stable now that there are thousands upon thousands of NATO troops there to squelch most of the problems," says Calabresi. "Milosevic's room for maneuver has been drastically reduced, and the U.S. and NATO have managed with minimal casualties to defuse the potential for tragedy in Kosovo - but by doing so, of course, they've inherited a bunch of other problems." And if NATO had to take its hand...
...have been a propaganda coup for India and Bangladesh, the other stops on his tour. "President Clinton feels very strongly that it's important to maintain direct personal relationships with foreign leaders, particularly with leaders of countries as prone to crisis as Pakistan is," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "He was particularly struck by the effect his personal relationship with Nawaz had in allowing the U.S. to persuade Pakistan to withdraw from Kargil last July [after they'd crossed onto the Indian side of the disputed Kashmir border]. He clearly believes it's important to build such a relationship...
...country that remains the key to its efforts to apprehend Osama bin Laden in neighboring Afghanistan. "While U.S. counter-terrorism officials were wary of cutting Pakistan off altogether, they're also pretty unhappy that Pakistan hasn't moved on some very big issues Washington has raised with them," says Calabresi. Pakistan has, for example, shown no inclination to comply with the U.S. request that it cut its ties with the Kashmir's Harkat ul-Mujahedeen organization, listed by Washington as a terrorist group and held responsible for the Christmastime hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane to Afghanistan. Still, President Clinton...
...remote location." There's no proof that this did (or didn't) happen, but all the same, Deutch was stripped of his security clearance in August, when Tenet learned of the breach. Tenet, meanwhile, is trying desperately to distance himself from his former boss's misbehavior. But, says Calabresi, all his effort may be too little, too late. "This scandal significantly decreases Tenet's chances of staying on at the CIA during a Republican administration...