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NATO may be bombing Belgrade back to the Stone Age and some Yugoslavian troops are feeling mutinous, but alliance predictions that President Milosevic is about to crack are probably premature. Belgrade's water reserves dropped to 8 percent Tuesday as NATO kept up its bombing campaign, and the city's residents are having to become accustomed to life without electricity. "Life in Serbian cities is getting very difficult," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "but people are not blaming Milosevic; they're blaming NATO. And even if they did blame Milosevic, there's not much they can do about...
TRAVELER(S)/STARTED Doris Haddock Dec. 31, 1998 MODE Walking (she's 89) EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL 10 miles a day for 306 days THE CAUSE? Campaign-finance reform PREPARATION Walked 10 miles a day carrying...
...Powell discovered something else: he is America's Promise. To paraphrase Woody Allen, 80% of success is showing up, and Powell saw that he would need to increase his showing up from a quarter of his time to well over half. He keeps the schedule of a candidate: his campaign trail is made up of "promise partners"--the schools, Junior Achievement programs and Rotary Clubs that are part of the 441 groups and 447 cities, states, counties and towns that have made pledges. Wherever he goes, corporate moguls drool all over him (and pay dearly--upward...
...alliance. And some appear to be coming -- over the weekend, Madeleine Albright conceded that Belgrade should be allowed to keep some troops in Kosovo after a settlement. But reports of a growing protest movement inside Yugoslavia against the war have also given NATO renewed cause to believe its air campaign will crack Belgrade's resolve. The commander of the Yugoslav forces in Kosovo, General Nebojsa Pavkovic, is reported to have spent Sunday placating mutinous soldiers and protesters in the Serbian town of Raska, and mothers of conscripts have reportedly demonstrated in other towns...
...congressional inquiry, containing "grave" revelations of Chinese nuclear espionage that "continues to this very day." The Cox committee's star witness, former Energy Department intelligence chief Notra Trulock, on Sunday warned that this was the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs. And if the new "Who lost China?" campaign is to have its own Alger Hiss, the prime candidate appears to be Attorney General Janet Reno. Even liberal New Jersey Democratic senator Robert Torricelli Sunday joined the Republican chorus calling for Reno's resignation, on charges that she failed to authorize an FBI wiretap of Los Alamos scientist...