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Serbia may be dragging its feet over withdrawing from Kosovo, but NATO will let President Milosevic off the hook despite issuing stern warnings on Thursday. "Holbrooke's agreement has been designed to allow everyone to save face," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Milosevic is proclaiming himself the hero -- and silencing Serbs who disagree -- while NATO is able to recover some of its diminished prestige in the region: "NATO has managed to make it look as if they backed Milosevic down without actually having to bomb, which nobody really wanted to do," says Calabresi...
...minute to midnight in Kosovo, but President Slobodan Milosevic may be thinking that NATO's clock has stopped. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke returned to Belgrade Thursday to issue yet another "last warning" to Milosevic. "Holbrooke returned in search of a deal," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But it's difficult for Milosevic to accept the large-scale withdrawal of Serb police demanded by the West, because that won't go over well with Kosovo's Serb minority...
...Kosovo may be part of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's domestic strategy to keep a Communist faction from bolting his fragile coalition. NATO officials are confident of getting Italy on board, but the continuation of eleventh-hour talks in Belgrade suggest that there may yet be a compromise. Says Calabresi, "Holbrooke's return suggests that there must be something to discuss...
...invited Kofi Annan to visit the region, but he doesn't seem ready to make the concessions necessary to stop the air strikes the West is threatening to launch -- perhaps as early as next week. "He still thinks this is all talk," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "He believes the current buildup is no different from the warnings in June and in March...
...order to satisfy NATO, Milosevic would have to concede at least some form of autonomy to the region's ethnic Albanian majority -- something he's shown no inclination of doing. "It's not clear that air strikes would force Milosevic to accept a peace deal for the region," says Calabresi, "but they would certainly restore some of the West's lost credibility...