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Hashim Thaci is on unfamiliar ground. The Albanian guerrilla leader, once the bane of Serbian forces in Kosovo's hinterlands, has arrived triumphant in Pristina and is undergoing his first rite of passage as an aspiring politician: dinner with TIME. Looking out across a table laden with the best postwar cuisine available--three platters of chicken franks, canned tuna and tomatoes--the 30-year-old rebel answers questions with a voice at once shy and calculating. Trying his best to toe the Western line, he assures us repeatedly, "We will live up to the obligations given...
...revolutionaries go, Thaci has a dream resume. Young, attractive and toting a sexy nickname, "the Snake," he is the face of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The glamour is burnished by accomplishment: Kosovar Albanians see him as the man who got them NATO military support and the right to an autonomous existence. And he has become the go-to man in postwar Kosovo. When the generals of the KFOR (Kosovo Force) peacekeeping troops and K.L.A. commanders could not arrive at an agreement to demilitarize the rebel army, they called Thaci to find a solution...
...guardians of Kosovo?s refugees, NATO are a bunch of deadbeats, according to the U.N. An official in charge of coordinating refugee relief efforts tore into the Western alliance Friday, hoping to shame it into handing over desperately needed cash to resettle the half million returned refugees. "The international community spent billions of dollars on a military campaign that was intended to pave the way for the return of refugees," said Soren Jessen-Petersen, the U.N. assistant high commissioner for refugees. "It is a pity they are not prepared to spend what we have asked for, to see the refugees...
...UNHCR Kosovo operation, which is spending $10 million a week resettling refugees in devastated villages, is only two weeks away from bankruptcy ?- only about one third of its $400 million budget has been handed over. "If you can?t reintegrate people into a viable economy and society, then you?re bound to have another explosion in the region," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Dealing with that explosion will prove a lot more expensive than the development aid necessary to rebuild the region." The U.N. may have been left on the sidelines when NATO went...
...foreign ministers remain divided over the question of the role of the Kosovo Liberation Army, with the U.S. pushing for the insurgent army to have a role in the territory?s police and political administration, while Canada and other countries urged the U.N. to avoid allowing the KLA to "usurp authority in Kosovo." Rebuilding Serbia also remains a point of contention, with Annan arguing forcefully for a broad definition of humanitarian aid, while the U.S. seeks to limit assistance to Belgrade while Slobodan Milosevic remains in power. "Kofi Annan will push hard against denying aid to Serbia because common sense...