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...since 1975, a pro-indepence result could see an escalation in the political violence that claimed dozens of lives in the run-up to the vote. "Anti-independence militias armed and supported by members of the Indonesian military have been simply going out and killing people," says TIME correspondent Massimo Calabresi. The militiamen have warned that if voters choose independence, the tiny country will be turned into a "sea of fire." That?s got independence advocates calling for an armed U.N. peacekeeping force to take control of the territory straight after the poll, although the international body is unlikely...
...With reporting by Dejan Anastasijevic/Vienna, Dusanka Anastasijevic/Podujevo, Massimo Calabresi/Cuska, Anthee Carassava/Pristina and Jan Stojaspal/Ljubenica
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Vienna, James Graff/Brussels, Thomas Sancton/Paris, Jan Stojaspal/Tirana and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Talbott in Moscow, Ahtisaari went instead to Germany for talks with EU president and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, although Chernomyrdin promised that he and the Finn would return to Belgrade next week. "Things are not looking good on the diplomatic front right now," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The indictment doesn't preclude negotiations over military control over Kosovo, although some believe it may make Milosevic more obdurate. But the Americans, the Russians and Milosevic all appear to have hardened their negotiating positions recently...
...everything necessary to Albania and Macedonia -- food, medicine, tents, latrines -- to relieve the plight of the more than 500,000 refugees who have spilled over the Kosovo border in desperation. For now, that battle is being won. "The refugee situation has eased off," reports TIME East European bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "NATO has rushed in the infrastructure and quickly set up all the nuts and bolts" to take care of the refugees' immediate needs. Albania has even passed a law giving NATO virtual carte blanche to do whatever it needs to win the war and help the refugees...