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...that on-leave reservists who were needed as breadwinners wouldn't be redeployed, the Yugoslav army Tuesday warned that men who failed to return to their units by noon would face a court-martial. "The reserves are furious because they'd been promised that they would be replaced in Kosovo," says Anastasijevic. "They feel they've done their part and now it's somebody else's turn, but logistical problems caused by the bombing have prevented Belgrade from doing that. Now the army has a new problem -- if it doesn't carry out its threat, that will...
...running away from--may be working perversely to soften NATO's resolve. With the alliance flying more than 200 sorties a day, the rate of collateral damage is growing. Serbia's state-controlled media claimed last week that another errant bomb killed more than 60 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, making some allies more nervous about civilian casualties. Germany's Green Party, part of the government's ruling coalition, broke ranks and called for a "limited halt" to the bombing. To placate U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who has been pressing for another independent broker in the peace talks, Albright enlisted...
...White House, meanwhile, detected more serious peace feelers from Belgrade. Milosevic made a public show of removing soldiers from Kosovo. Prominent Serb businessmen have also begun to grouse publicly about the bombing's economic impact--a sign that Milosevic's cronyocracy may be weakening. "People [in Belgrade] are beginning to look for a way out," says a senior Clinton Administration official. Now the White House hopes Chernomyrdin can show them the door...
...public airing of differences among NATO members over ground troops and ending the bombing gave Milosevic reason to hold out for more concessions from the alliance. And some appear to be coming -- over the weekend, Madeleine Albright conceded that Belgrade should be allowed to keep some troops in Kosovo after a settlement. But reports of a growing protest movement inside Yugoslavia against the war have also given NATO renewed cause to believe its air campaign will crack Belgrade's resolve. The commander of the Yugoslav forces in Kosovo, General Nebojsa Pavkovic, is reported to have spent Sunday placating mutinous soldiers...
Meanwhile, NATO this week begins debating a proposal to deploy 50,000 troops in Macedonia as an eventual peacekeeping force for Kosovo. The alliance had originally planned a 28,000-strong force, but that was before the widespread destruction caused by the war. "It should be pretty easy to get NATO to move those forces into position for a peacekeeping mission premised on Milosevic's accepting their entry into Kosovo," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "And the alliance is unlikely at this stage to even debate the idea of sending them in without Milosevic's permission." So despite talk...