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...panelists said the Rambouillet agreement, a proposal signed by Abanians and rejected by Serbs, which called for an autonomous Kosovo still under Serb rule, would have to be abandoned...
NATO had originally favored the pacifist Rugova over the insurgent KLA, and began dealing with the guerrilla group only after Serb repression had propelled them to center stage. "Washington was originally suspicious of the KLA, but embraced them at Rambouillet," says Waller...
Although it has disputed the authenticity of that footage, NATO is plainly worried. State Department spokesman James Rubin implicitly sought to distance the U.S. from Rugova last Thursday, pointing out that the moderate leader hadn't been the head of the Kosovar delegation at Rambouillet. "The inference was that Washington didn't consider Rugova the person to deliver a settlement," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller...
...Kosovo. So, analogies past, we reach the unique dilemma of the present. One may feel a bit like the proverbial pedestrian at the crossroads who is asked the way by a motorist and says, "I wouldn't start from here." The story of wrong turnings goes right up to Rambouillet. Yet here is where you always have to start. Having recently studied the situation in Kosovo and Serbia at first hand, I reach a drastic conclusion. I hope against hope that the bombing will stop the murderous rampage and bring the Serbian side back to the negotiating table...
...Whatever the shape of an eventual settlement, the only given is that the Rambouillet peace deal, whose failure precipitated current bombing campaign, is dead. The ethnic Albanians can't be expected to accept remaining under Serb rule, and the Serbs haven't yet been militarily persuaded to relinquish their control over any part of the province. Thus as NATO develops ideas about creating a protected enclave in Kosovo and the Serbs continue to depopulate predominantly ethnic Albanian areas, the two sides could find themselves moving toward some form of compromise. Thursday's talks between Milosevic and moderate ethnic Albanian leader...