Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...described the conflict in Kosovo as having "No End in Sight." Unfortunately, four weeks and 600,000 refugees later, the vision of the end has still failed to materialize. The costs of this conflict, both in terms of resources and human life, are too great for the NATO countries to be satisfied with the rate of progress so far. Either a qualitative change is required in NATO strategy--military or diplomatic--or Clinton and the other NATO leaders must provide a cogent explanation of how the current strategy will lead to success...
...some diplomatic progress. The release on May 1 of the three detained U.S. servicemen following the mission of the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Belgrade is a welcome sign. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has shown that he would accept a U.N. force in Kosovo, albeit small and lightly armed. NATO has also rightly involved Russia in the diplomatic process, perhaps to make amends for excluding Russia at the start of the conflictnand should include in the diplomatic process the concerns of neighbors such as Montenegro and Macedonia and of nearby NATO members such as Hungary, Italy, and Greece...
...release was timed to prevent Clinton from taking any credit, as the White House had requested that Jackson not go, and the move could improve Milosevic's image and therefore his position in a negotiated peace. Such negotiations will not be easy: although there are some issues on which NATO can afford to be flexible, there are many on which the alliance must be adamant--including the removal of Serb troops from Kosovo and the creation of a well-armed international peacekeeping force--and on which Milosevic may be unwilling to budge. In these cases, the diplomatic resolution...
...Serbian brand of malignant nationalism should not be tolerated. Clinton is right to identify it as a danger and move against it. I only wish he and NATO had acted more swiftly. JANE CHRIST Basel, Switzerland JOHN MCCAIN'S KOSOVO POLICY
...explained by phone. "We cannot form a government in exile even if we wanted to. So we are trying to organize the operation from within." A few key officials who escaped in the first days of the war have been shuttling around Europe, raising money and working to keep NATO's interests aligned with their own. Some prominent Kosovar leaders, such as K.L.A. chief Hashim Thaci, are in and out of Kosovo. Others, however, are missing. Polyglot publisher Surroi, with friends both inside and outside Kosovo, is particularly conspicuous by his absence. His fate, like that of other key players...