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Reviving the Kosovo peace process may be like reheating a souffl? -- getting it to rise a second time can take a miracle. The White House hopes that U.N. ambassador-designate Richard Holbrooke is the master chef who can pull it off. Now in Belgrade, on Wednesday Holbrooke will try to arm-twist President Slobodan Milosevic into signing the troubled peace deal. "Milosevic is hanging tough," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But the deal is ultimately in his interests, and that may lead him eventually to sign." That and Holbrooke's powers of persuasion: The U.S. envoy brandished...
...would be easier, of course, if Holbrooke had the Kosovar Albanians' endorsement of the deal in his back pocket. That, once again, will have to wait. With the next round of peace talks scheduled to begin in France in less than a week, U.S. mediator Christopher Hill flew to Kosovo Tuesday for further consultations with leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The KLA officially assured Hill on Monday that they accept the deal but -- as they did at the Rambouillet talks -- they asked for more time before signing...
Surroi is a realist about the deal and the prospect for pinning down rebel support. But he thinks he has a pitch that can work. "This is not an agreement to form an independent state of Kosovo," he says. "[But] it is a historic opportunity for Albanians. It will be the most dramatic change Kosovo has ever seen...
...happens. Fighting last week threatened to undermine those rebels who back the deal. And the delay has given Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic a chance to deploy 4,500 additional soldiers, about 60 tanks and other heavy armor around Kosovo. In Washington there was worry that the troops looked like a cocked fist. As if peace needed another bad omen, the talks are set to restart on March 15--the infamous ides of March. Despite that, hope remains that the next two weeks will give Surroi and his fellow delegates the chance they need to praise peace in Kosovo...