Word: nato
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President Slobodan Milosevic over the weekend reiterated his acceptance of the Bonn Accord signed by Russia and the leading NATO countries, but that agreement is open to such diverse interpretation that it will require some nimble diplomatic choreography to turn it into a workable peace plan. At issue: When NATO stops its bombing; the nature of NATO involvement in the U.N.-authorized peacekeeping force for Kosovo; and the size of the Yugoslavian military presence allowed to remain in the province. One indicator of the progress of peace talks is Ahtisaari's schedule. He's indicated that he'll accompany Chernomyrdin...
...three key players in the diplomatic endgame -- Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott and European Union mediator President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland -- met in Bonn Tuesday to consider new Russian peace proposals, after a night of heavy air raids in which Belgrade claims NATO bombs killed 26 civilians in two separate incidents...
Diplomacy is destined to pick up speed as both NATO and Belgrade begin to realize they don't want the air war to last many more months. If NATO is not ready to take risks to defeat Milosevic, it may have to prepare itself, and the wider world, for the least bad negotiated settlement. And winter comes quickly in Kosovo. Clinton pleaded for the allies to "stay focused and patient." But there are not many months left for the air campaign or the diplomacy to work in time for ethnic Albanians to be shepherded home to their charred villages before...
...part guilt alleviation for well-heeled New Yorkers and part real insight into the New York City school system, which is the nation's largest, with 1,136 schools, more than a million students, 63,000 teachers and an annual budget bigger than the combined military spending of nato's three newest members: $8.9 billion...
...SPENDER Congress never met a bill it couldn't stuff with special spending programs. The emergency appropriations bill for NATO's attack on Yugoslavia is particularly porky. Some of the "emergencies" that seem the least urgent...