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...NATO's Secretary-General George Robertson last week agreed with E.U. foreign ministers on a clean division of labor: NATO's prime focus is to patrol the border between Kosovo and Macedonia and offer intelligence and other support to Macedonian armed forces. The E.U., meanwhile, is concentrated on lowering the political temperature in Macedonia itself. "We can't fall into the trap of over-reacting and following the rebels' tracks into a broadening of the conflict," said Wolfgang Petritsch, the former E.U. negotiator on Kosovo and now the High Commissioner for Bosnia-Herzegovina. "We'll see soon enough what effect...
...easy. The mountainous, heavily forested terrain is tailor-made for insurgency, and some of the trails and networks the Kosovo Liberation Army (k.l.a.) used to transport arms into Kosovo in the late 1990s can be followed the other way. Robertson issued a call for more troops to strengthen the stretched resources of the 42,000 kfor troops currently in Kosovo, but none of the countries deployed, least of all the United States, expressed any enthusiasm about beefing up their presence there. NATO officials say they're "not talking about thousands of troops," and that they're confident someone will pony...
...When the Greens' executive supported Germany's participation in nato's military action in Kosovo, Schröder believes, it violated one of the party's most fundamental tenets: pacifism. "All those who want to ensure that Germany can keep waging war really must vote for the Greens in the 2002 election," Schröder wrote in her news bulletin Pause for Thought, which is published eight times a year. Annoyed by what she calls the Greens' "misanthropic immigra-tion policies," she demanded E.U. subsidies for people-smuggling rings to help immigrants enter "Fortress Europe...
...file of the N.L.A. may be a ragtag group, its leadership probably is not. It is widely assumed by diplomats and local Albanian leaders that the top commanders--operating under names like "Cobra" and "The Beard"--include men who battled Serb units in 1998 and 1999 with the Kosovo Liberation Army. Significantly, ex-K.L.A. commanders in Kosovo have declined to condemn the insurgency, and a radical Kosovo leader last week claimed solidarity with the new group. Moreover, the hit-and-run attacks on police outposts closely resemble K.L.A. tactics during the Kosovo conflict. The guerrillas could be eager...
...Macedonian government to strike at rebel targets above the town of Tetovo, site of the Balkans' newest insurgency. While it succeeded in panicking Albanian civilians, it left the rebels themselves more or less unfazed. Subsequent government reports that the insurgents were laying down their weapons and fleeing toward the Kosovo border proved groundless. By week's end they were back, striking at police positions in Tetovo and drawing a furious response from army tanks and artillery. "The fighters will remain in their positions," Fazli Veliu, a spokesman for the rebels, told TIME from his home in Geneva, Switzerland. "They will...