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...five. Still, the defensive tone of his report signals that NATO has failed to realize its lofty aim of creating a thriving democratic, multiethnic Kosovo - and more important, perhaps, hints at the fact that NATO's troop presence needs to be maintained, or even expanded, to prevent a renewed outbreak of hostilities. "If NATO left either Bosnia or Kosovo, they'd be back at war within months," says TIME State Department correspondent Massimo Calabresi. "Although things are certainly immeasurably better now than they were a year ago, the deep-seated political problems are by no means solved...
...says the department will go to any lengths to prevent a similar outbreak of violence...
Kosovo, like Korea, is starting to shape up as a permanent military mission for the U.S. and its allies. Tuesday's outbreak of violence in the divided city of Mitrovice, in which four French peacekeepers and a number of Serb and Albanian civilians were wounded in a series of grenade attacks, underlines the fact that stability remains elusive even eight months after the NATO-led peacekeepers first arrived. The violence in the city close to the Serbian border came a day after the U.N. administrator for the province, Bernard Kouchner, urged the Security Council to provide more money...
Senator Eide got interested in graduated driver's licenses last year, when she noticed an outbreak of traffic citations and accidents among Joanna's friends who were new drivers. Even Joanna, an honor student and a responsible kid, was ticketed within two weeks of getting her license. Joanna and her crowd are guilty of nothing more than youth and inexperience--but that can be a dangerous combination behind the wheel. Eide, 45, worked at a clerical job in a hospital emergency room in the 1970s and witnessed a steady stream of car-crash victims. Citing dramatic reductions in teen auto...
...officials have blamed Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic for the upsurge in violence around the town, but while Belgrade has certainly armed and organized the remaining Serbs in northern Kosovo, the recent outbreak of violence began with a rocket attack on a bus carrying Serb civilians that most observers saw as a continuation of efforts by elements of the supposedly disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army to drive out the territory's remaining Serbs. "Laying all the blame on Milosevic is too easy," says Anastasijevic. "He's certainly involved in arming and organizing the Serbs, but saying Milosevic is the source...