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Though Milosevic still commands the loyalty of his generals, a Pentagon intelligence officer says many of the colonels and junior officers who convoyed out of Kosovo are grumbling, "Why did we do this?"--particularly after they saw the destruction back home. There's no guarantee, of course, that a military coup would produce a more liberal government. Once tanks roll in Belgrade, power could fall into the hands of even more nationalist, anti-NATO hard-liners...
...asked Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, for example, to place a phone call to the Vatican. The Serbian Orthodox Church last month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join in taking a crack at Milosevic...
...Serbs support Slobodan Milosevic after what he has done in Kosovo?" Westerners often ask. The truth is many Serbs just don't know the facts. Their ignorance is symptomatic of life in Serbia, where appearance and reality are carefully managed by Milosevic's propaganda machine. And though some Serbs have access to CNN and the Internet, it's still tough for them to get a clear view in a state where Milosevic controls even the weather report...
...Unlike Kosovo?s Serbs and ethnic Albanians, its Gypsies have few international advocates speaking out on their behalf. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson and its high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, have both visited some of the thousands of Gypsy refugees crammed into makeshift facilities inside Kosovo, and vowed to provide them with support. And pan-European Gypsy organizations such as the Romany Union and the European Roma Rights Center have sought urgent undertakings from NATO to protect their kin in Kosovo. In the end, though, there may be some cynical politics in play. "The campaign against the Gypsies...
Even opposition activists have been shocked by the willingness of ordinary Serbs to demonstrate against Milosevic in the wake of the Kosovo debacle. On Monday 20,000 people ? almost one third of the town?s population ? took to the streets of Leskovac in response to a call sneaked into a basketball half-time show by a local TV technician. But even widespread grassroots anger may not be enough to bring down the indicted war criminal. "Milosevic won?t go simply because tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are out in the streets demanding his resignation," says Anastasijevic...