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STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Buying in bulk used to mean hauling a case of toilet paper home from a warehouse club. Now consumers can pool their orders online for "power buys" at www.mercata.com This Web retailer sells consumer electronics, sporting goods, housewares and appliances around the clock. But each day select items are put up for group sale at an initial price--say, $40 for a radio. The more buyers who join the sale by day's end, the lower the price will go. All buyers get the lowest price offered...
While Air Force officers were bragging that air power by itself had triumphed for the first time in history, Army officers were quick to note that air power had failed abjectly in attaining the war's key goal--protecting ethnic Albanians from Serbian violence. Says William Odom, a retired Army three-star: "This war didn't do anything to vindicate air power. It didn't stop the ethnic cleansing, and it didn't remove Milosevic." In fact, a ground movement--an offensive by the resurgent Kosovo Liberation Army in the past two weeks--played a key role in upping...
Such a relief. In a test of wills in which one side had all the weapons but both underestimated the other's staying power, Milosevic cracked first. The chilling spectacle of NATO slamming 20,000 bombs and missiles into Yugoslavia can come to a merciful end. Bill Clinton proves--again--to be the luckiest President alive. At nearly the exact moment that Clinton gathered the Joint Chiefs to confront the unpalatable implications of a ground war to salvage the stalemated air campaign, Milosevic handed him victory...
...alliance can be proud it hung together, stuck to its demands and lost not a single soldier in combat--an amazing, unprecedented zero. The West stood up against the obscene barbarism of "ethnic cleansing," drawing moral lines for the world. Serbia's war machine has been mutilated. Air power vindicated itself...
...suffered. But "he was feeling the pain" in the second month, says a U.S. intelligence officer, as NATO racked up 350 attack sorties every 24 hours. Bombs and missiles had blitzed much of Serbia's heavy industry, energy sector and transport network. Citizen morale crumbled under water shortages and power outages as NATO hammered the country's electric grid. Protests broke out in the smashed industrial cities of the south...