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...Kosovo crisis were a Hollywood film, Slobodan Milosevic would be on the run now, in a vain attempt to save his skin as his evil army disintegrated. Later in the movie he would be dragged before a chamber of bewigged jurists and, as the credits rolled, sentenced to his just deserts. But the real world is unlikely to offer up the denouement of a handcuffed Milosevic unraveling in a war-crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that...
...President Clinton is supposed to be a lame duck, he doesn't seem to be showing any signs of lameness in matters big (as in Kosovo) or small (as in the appointment of James Hormel). On Friday Clinton installed the openly gay Hormel as the new U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg without the benefit of a Senate confirmation. Hormel, a respected philanthropist and former assistant dean at the University of Chicago Law School, has had his nomination bottled up since 1997 by Senate conservatives who vehemently oppose his gay-rights activism...
...Happy Xmas, War Is Over," said the walrus, and now that Christmas has apparently come in June it's time to look toward the holiday hangover. What will partitioned Kosovo look like in a month or so, when the victims, the villains and the victors all walk the same bomb-pocked streets? Maybe like the postwar Vienna of "The Third Man" (1950). Written by Graham Greene, lensed by the great Carol Reed (the just-deceased Oliver's uncle), and peopled with a pitch-perfect cast of Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and a ravishing, gut-wrenching Alida Valli...
...wants him -- captive and pleading for his life -- it faces unanticipated political dangers. "Capturing Ocalan and putting him on trial has had the unintended consequence of focusing international attention on Turkey's human rights record and its treatment of the Kurds," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "NATO's Kosovo campaign also increases pressure on Turkey to conform to the standards of an alliance that is taking military action in defense of human rights...
...charges against Ocalan carry a mandatory death penalty, the Turkish government has discretion over whether to actually carry out the execution. "They may decide he is more useful to them alive and in a nebulous position where he's essentially pleading for his life," says Dowell. But with Kosovo firing up NATO members over the human rights of ethnic minorities, Ocalan's trial may also put Turkey itself in the dock...