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...these people are running but what shape the city will take that will be run by the winner of the Sept. 14 Democratic primary--the vote that counts in this one-party town. Maryland's largest city seems to have more razor wire and abandoned buildings than Kosovo. Meanwhile, the prevalence of open-air drug dealing has made NO LOITERING signs as common as STOP signs. Baltimore, which has a population of 630,000, has sunk under the depressing triple crown of urban degradation: middle-income residents are fleeing at a rate of 1,000 a month; the murder rate...
...risks. And there's something fascinating about watching a man who has so much to lose--he's tabbed as a possible future Secretary of State--making big, risky bets with his reputation. It's like watching NASCAR for the wrecks, not the finish. Last week Holbrooke jetted into Kosovo to try to jump-start a U.N. relief effort in danger of deteriorating. "The future of the United Nations is being tested here," Holbrooke said as he bounced along the road to Cikatovo, a Kosovar village where Serbian forces executed at least 100 ethnic Albanians and pushed their bodies over...
Dick Holbrooke is in the Balkans cracking his whip, but the U.S. ambassador?s diplomatic colleagues at the U.N. may resent his message: that is, if Kosovo is a failure, it?ll be the international body?s fault. On a whirlwind tour of the troubled province Monday, Holbrooke warned that Kosovo would be "the ultimate test of the U.N.?s capability and potential," reiterating Washington?s message that Kosovo was now the U.N.?s to lose. Although the limited resources available to the international body have plagued its relief, administrative and civilian policing operations, the fundamental obstacle to winning...
Holbrooke also met Sunday with leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, pressed his message against revenge attacks on Serbs and expressed confidence that the KLA would disarm by September 19. But it may take more than Holbrooke?s powers of persuasion to bring the KLA into line, since the rebel group knows that the last thing NATO wants is a confrontation. "The U.N. can?t succeed unless the peacekeeping force can ensure security, and that really depends on NATO," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "But if the whole Kosovo mission turns out to be a dramatic failure...
...command structure who allegedly passed on sensitive information that allowed Yugoslavia to down an F-117 stealth fighter in March, according to a report in the Scotsman newspaper. Unnamed NATO sources told the paper that a financially motivated turncoat had sold Russian intelligence agents some of the alliance?s Kosovo battle plans, including "detailed flight plans" for the F-117 on the day it was shot down. The Russians immediately passed the information on to the Serbs, who scored their most important propaganda victory of the war in downing the supposedly undetectable plane. The spy was reportedly arrested days later...