Word: nato
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...Serbs are calling the bluff. NATO generals raced to Belgrade Monday to warn President Slobodan Milosevic that air strikes remain an option after Friday's massacre of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. But Sunday's renewed Serb attack on the village where 45 civilians were butchered on Friday shows Milosevic doesn't believe the West has the will...
...immediate air strike isn't an option for NATO, because that would endanger the 700 monitors introduced to the region as part of the cease-fire deal brokered by Richard Holbrooke last November. But even if the monitors were withdrawn, it's not clear that the U.S. and its allies would attack: Many Western observers believe that only ground troops could keep the peace in Kosovo -- and that's a non-starter, since the Western alliance has no appetite for wading into an intractable civil war between the Serb authorities and the independence-minded Kosovar Albanians. And with no firm...
...been closed by the rebels highlight the gulf that remains between the two sides. Yugoslavia's Serb government held a cabinet meeting in the territory Friday to underline its determination to resist KLA demands for independence. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke brokered a cease-fire last fall to avoid NATO air strikes against the Serbs, but that was widely interpreted as the two sides taking a winter recess. "One explanation for the renewed fighting might be that the weather has warmed up a little," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. And when spring sets in, young men's fancy isn't likely...
Slobodan Milosevic has good reason to be paranoid. NATO on Wednesday swooped down on the Bosnian countryside to arrest General Radislav Krstic, the commander of the Bosnian Serb unit that massacred 8,000 Muslim men in the U.N. "safe haven" of Srebrenica in 1995. "Even though he was on leave in Serbia at the time, Krstic would have had to authorize the killings," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. "He'll also be able to answer questions over Milosevic's involvement in the most important massacre...
...bane of U.S. officials. In public, at least. In private, Primakov seems to have shown a little more flexibility. Diplomacy, he sometimes says, is a process of mutual concessions. He has been able to establish a good working relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. And officials at NATO, one of Primakov's least favorite organizations, say they view the new Russian Prime Minister as a stabilizing force in Moscow's relations with the West. "Primakov is smart, and he's realistic," a NATO official remarks...