Word: nato
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...White House is privately furious at how NATO commander General Wesley Clark first handled reports that one of his jets had mistakenly attacked a refugee convoy last week. Within hours of the Wednesday strike, which may have killed more than 70 ethnic Albanians, Clark told a news service he had "strong evidence" that Serb forces had fired at the refugee column. By the next day, embarrassed NATO officials admitted that their first claim was wrong and that an American F-16 had indeed attacked civilians. NATO tried to recover, releasing an audiotape of an F-16 pilot who may have...
...what perception of the conflict is television bringing back to the living rooms of America this time? There is an emerging consensus that the TV pictures thus far have helped the NATO cause. The reason is simple: The one set of images that has been able to come out of the war unimpeded has been those of the refugees escaping out of Kosovo. The agony, the desperation and the tragedy etched on the faces of the victims have helped give a moral imperative to the NATO action...
...beginning it did not look that way," says McGinnis of CBS, "because the desperate escape made it look like NATO had no plan." But the recurring images of suffering had a secondary, and thus far more significant, impact. "The footage day after day of human misery helped to galvanize public opinion," says NBC Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, "and perhaps just as significantly it also strengthened the resolve of NATO officials" to carry on. TIME lifestyle senior editor Richard Zoglin, a longtime television observer agrees: "The only up close and personal stuff we have seen is from the refugees. And almost...
Bass said the public feels the NATO waited too long during the ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs before intervening. Now, he said, the U.S. wants to avoid making the same mistake in this new Balkan conflict...
...flip side of the problem with the continuing exodus is concern over the displaced ethnic Albanians that remain inside Kosovo. An estimated 400,000 remain trapped or on the run. NATO has no way to help those inside Kosovo, says Branegan, and policymakers remain frustrated over their inability to make a difference for them. Beyond these problems lies NATO's concern about how this war will end for the refugees: "Will the alliance be able to deliver on its promise to get all of them back home?" asks Calabresi. Because of its ethnic fragility, Macedonia is in no position...