Word: campaign
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...Bonn Accord, the alliance has sharpened its interpretation of that accord and has pressed for Moscow?s (and Belgrade?s) agreement while bombs are still falling. The reason may be that once a deal is in place, the alliance loses its prime leverage over Milosevic -? its bombing campaign. Washington fears, with good reason, that Milosevic will have ample opportunity to subvert any undertakings to which he has signed on, while the U.S. will be unlikely to win agreement within NATO to resume the bombing in response. But even while the U.S. is looking to stiffen the peace terms for Milosevic...
...Kosovo air campaign, and the end to the conflict seems now to depend mostly on the domestic political concerns of the key players. "Both sides are really eager to stop this now, which gives peace talks their momentum," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Now it's a question of what both sides think they can get away with domestically -- of how much President Clinton will be able to compromise while still making the result appear to be a victory." The three key players in the diplomatic endgame -- Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott...
...captive and pleading for his life -- it faces unanticipated political dangers. "Capturing Ocalan and putting him on trial has had the unintended consequence of focusing international attention on Turkey's human rights record and its treatment of the Kurds," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "NATO's Kosovo campaign also increases pressure on Turkey to conform to the standards of an alliance that is taking military action in defense of human rights...
PLEADED GUILTY. YAH LIN ("Charlie") TRIE, 49, Democratic fund raiser and Clinton crony; to two counts of violating federal election laws; in Little Rock, Ark. He pledged to cooperate with the Justice Department's campaign-finance inquiry in exchange for immunity and probation...
Barak, who had already used Russian grievances in his own campaign, quickly hinted that he'd give Sharansky the Interior portfolio. It took Netanyahu a week to match the offer. The trend had been set. More and more Russians concluded that their natural home was with the secularist Barak and not with the ultra-Orthodox-allied Netanyahu. Barak will almost certainly feel obliged to give Interior to Sharansky's party, which also demands the Housing Ministry as vital to new immigrants. Sharansky says he has no problems working with the "very bright and very intellectual" Barak, though they...