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...impact of the air strikes, NATO was plagued by bad luck. Only about half the bombing sorties actually dropped ordnance on targets. Some planes were socked in by bad weather; other pilots couldn't eyeball their prey--NATO rules required visual identification of a target to prevent civilian casualties--through the thick cloud cover, and returned to base with bomb bays still loaded. "Everybody is surprised," says a White House aide, "that we're not as far along as we wanted...
Part of the problem for allied planners is that they are under strict orders to avoid "collateral damage"--the famous euphemism that means killing civilians or blowing up things you aren't aiming at. Much of that restraint has political roots: public opinion in NATO countries, tepid at best, could turn if the evening news starts delivering pictures of dead and maimed innocents. A TIME/CNN poll last week indicated less than massive support in the U.S., with 44% of respondents approving the air strikes. Another 40% disapproved. Asked if the U.S. has a moral imperative to stop Serb actions...
...that Milosevic resolves to become the Saddam Hussein of the Balkans, riding out the air attacks and agreeing to nothing. "He may be willing to suffer for a lot longer than a couple of days," an intelligence expert says. Milosevic, an adept at propaganda, could send out pictures of civilian casualties and wait for the more hesitant members of NATO to peel...
...analogue to the Viet Cong is the Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo is the Serbs' Vietnam, not ours. If NATO really does eventually destroy Milosevic's army from the air, as General Wesley Clark has threatened (although he hasn't explained how this can be done without inflicting extensive civilian casualties), then the K.L.A. will soon be riding into Pristina as if into Saigon. Then the remaining Serbs living in Kosovo will probably flee. Milosevic knows this. He knows such a loss is the one thing that might finally turn the fury of people in Serbia proper against him. That...
...tenets of community policingthat we've haven't been able to implement," saysVicky Boulrice, the civilian coordinator forcommunity policing...