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NATO's bombing campaign has improbably united Serbs behind a president they love to hate, but it has had the opposite effect on Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership -- and that could become a major problem for the West...
...Kosovo Liberation Army was less forgiving, with spokesman Jakub Krasniqi denouncing Rugova as a traitor. "If Rugova makes a deal with Milosevic and the Russians, that can be real trouble for NATO," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Unlike the KLA, he's an elected leader and can legitimately claim to represent a sizable chunk of the population...
...really wish they were. Just as the MSNBC "talking heads" have finally shifted from discussions of sex to the military and Kosovo, the "Flynt Report" will only catapult us into another round of lies and national embarrassment-if its contents can even be believed. Indeed, Flynt's publication is nothing more than a partisan ploy to exact revenge on the right-wingers in Congress that should be ignored by both politicians and sex scandal followers alike...
...SLOBO AS SADDAM Yes, alas, the closer to the present, the more plausible the analogy. Air power alone will probably not depose the Serbian dictator any more than it did the Iraqi one. The bombing has not yet achieved even its first proclaimed objective of stopping Serbian atrocities in Kosovo. So, analogies past, we reach the unique dilemma of the present. One may feel a bit like the proverbial pedestrian at the crossroads who is asked the way by a motorist and says, "I wouldn't start from here." The story of wrong turnings goes right up to Rambouillet...
...down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it?s a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack button. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead and build the facility, which could be shared with other countries. ?If they get interested months from now, we want to be ready,? explains Navy Commander David B. Knox. ?It?s important enough that both sides are talking...