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NATO says it is doing its best to concentrate its fire on Serb military units in Kosovo, and yet reports are trickling out of its capital, Pristina, of large numbers of ethnic Albanian civilians whose homes, limbs and loved ones have been blown away by alliance munitions. Throughout Yugoslavia and even beyond its borders, weapons deemed "smart" and "precision-guided" have veered off target, destroying property and lives. On Monday -- only a day after NATO apologized for a Saturday air strike that killed 47 people on a civilian bus in Kosovo -- it was reported from Montenegro that the alliance...
...have strayed into a suburb of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which caused considerable alarm in a country seeking NATO membership. And on the Yugoslavian home front, President Milosevic sacked Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic from his cabinet after Draskovic publicly urged acceptance of a foreign peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Draskovic may have been a lone voice in the cabinet, but he has previously led pro-democracy demonstrations that forced important political concessions out of Milosevic. With the war going nowhere after five weeks of bombing, pressure to deal may be mounting on both sides...
...concessions from the NATO side in order to be able to broker an agreement," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "But NATO won't offer anything until the Russians can show some movement from Milosevic toward meeting NATO's demands, particularly on the nature of a peacekeeping force for Kosovo." Awkward as it may be, the diplomatic dance may be the only show in town. Even as NATO mounted new air raids and Washington ordered 33,000 reserves into the theater to support an escalated air war, NATO commander Wesley Clark acknowledged that the air campaign has had little effect...
WASHINGTON: Republicans are off the sidelines on the Kosovo crisis, and a little sooner than they'd like. Late Wednesday, the House voted 249-180, mostly along party lines, on a resolution that has commander in chief Bill Clinton -- who already has 18 NATO partners to deal with -- rubbing his temples: They want to require that Clinton get congressional approval before injecting "ground elements" into the conflict in Yugoslavia. Such vague language could mean Apache helicopters and definitely includes ground troops, but TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson says that for now, Republicans are just looking for a place to hide...
...votes Wednesday on two resolutions, one declaring war on Yugoslavia and the other requiring President Clinton to withdraw U.S. troops within 30 days. Neither had a chance, but to simply vote no on both would mean an implicit endorsement of Clinton's way. Fractured as the party is over Kosovo, no GOPer was in the mood for that. "This was a symbolic vote so that Republicans could assert their authority in the Kosovo conflict," he says. "But they'd still rather not deal with it -- so far, the best way for them is to leave this as Clinton...