Word: kosovo
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...Kosovo is no longer solely a European concern. It's a global issue. Muslims in Kosovo do not feel safe under the umbrella of nato because it is the agent of the U.S., which we openly term an enemy of the Muslim world. So let the U.N. assume responsibility for solving the crisis. We don't want to see any more pictures of war-torn Kosovo and the miserable plight of its people. We want the conflict properly settled soon. ALIYA SHAHNOOR AMEEN Chittagong, Bangladesh...
...came as Russia's Balkan envoy to Gore's Victorian mansion in Washington to discuss the situation in Yugoslavia. Sitting down at the Vice President's dining-room table, they could not have known they were putting into motion the strategy that would ultimately produce a peace plan for Kosovo...
...else he should have. He handed the Russian a manila envelope containing a reminder of the most fundamental reason why both countries needed to succeed--a draft of a yet unreleased State Department report, prepared overnight, laying out the extent of the ethnic cleansing that was taking place in Kosovo...
...when few Americans had even heard of him; in his first week as Bill Clinton's running mate, he pressed the Arkansas Governor to make the Balkans a foreign policy priority. But now the whole endeavor is playing out in peculiarly personal terms for Gore: the success of a Kosovo peace plan will bear directly on his run for the presidency...
...last Thursday, the loudspeakers at the sprawling Stenkovec refugee camp in Macedonia announced the promise of peace. There was little rejoicing. "Our faith rests only with the K.L.A.," said Refic Dema, 24, referring to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Dema, the sole member of his family to survive a massacre at the village of Zhegra in eastern Kosovo, said, "If [K.L.A. leader Hashim] Thaci says it's a good deal, then I will try to smile...