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...Rambouillet hadn?t reckoned with the deep historical attachment to Kosovo across the political spectrum in Serbia. It would have been difficult for any politician to concede to NATO?s demands, let alone for Milosevic, who?d built his nationalist credentials on the promise to protect Kosovo?s Serbs, and whose officer corps was even more nationalist than he. Moreover, the Dayton analogy may have been stretched, in the sense that Dayton came after a three-year ground war that had left both sides exhausted. The Serbs called NATO?s bluff, leaving the alliance compelled to respond forcefully...
...While it?s too early for NATO to plan a ticker-tape parade, Milosevic, personally, has no cause to break out the Mo?t. His nationalist allies have deserted him over his surrender of Kosovo; his more liberal opponents will attack him for pointlessly subjecting the country to a 78-day bombing nightmare; he?s now wanted in the Hague to face war crimes charges; and the U.S. and Britain are warning his countrymen they?ll get no help rebuilding their shattered country while he?s still in power. (The latter condition may well be quietly dropped as Europe balks...
...streets of Beijing. Students demonstrated day and night in front of the embassies of the U.S., Britain and other NATO countries, shouting anti-Western slogans. The popular view in the Western media is that the protests against NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade were a nationalist movement "supported and orchestrated by the Chinese government." But the characterization is quite off base, and will only lead Westerners into further misunderstanding of how the Chinese people think and feel...
...secure the necessary votes to take power herself. With few significant policy differences between the two major parties, September's election will be all about Sonia Gandhi. The Congress party has used the mythical power of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty to rally jaded voters, while Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist party has vowed to make Gandhi's origins the centerpiece of its campaign. Get ready for the drama...
Most peculiarly, firebrand nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his faction--who usually denounce the President in flamboyant and colorful terms--suddenly became passionate supporters of the government. Zhirinovsky denied that he had been bought off but made it clear he would like a high post in the next government. From the background, Yeltsin aides put out the word that the Duma could be dissolved and a state of emergency declared if the vote went against him. When the results were announced, Chechnya gained the highest number of votes in favor of impeachment, 283--still 17 short of the two-thirds needed...