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...There are some encouraging signs, especially the near unanimity in condemning the use of force by ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. "This situation in Macedonia could spell strike three for the Albanians altogether," says Baton Haxhiu, editor of Kosovo's leading daily Koha Ditore. "Our reputation is being ruined. Our Western friends are turning into enemies." Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Stockholm to meet with leaders of the 15 E.U. countries, said - with an eye to his own problems in Chechnya - "these aren't rebels, but terrorists...
...Putin is not alone in thinking the Americans have given Albanian terrorists too much succor. But across the international community there was general agreement on the best holding pattern: keep arms and men from Kosovo out of Macedonia, back the Macedonian government in its fight against the insurgents, and hope the government wins...
...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...