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Negotiators for the two sides have been locked up in a 14th century castle in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris, under orders from European foreign ministers to come up with an autonomy agreement in two weeks for the province's 2 million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians. But after a week of bluster and posturing, almost nothing has been decided. The Serbs refused even to talk about the text of a possible agreement, engaging instead in a series of diplomatic maneuvers that did nothing but kill time. About the only thing the two delegations could agree on was that...
...RAMBOUILLET, FRANCE: It turns out NATO's line in the Balkan snow was more a suggestion, which means that, seven hours after Saturday's noon (6 a.m. ET) deadline had come and gone, negotiators were still talking, and about the only thing they could agree on was to keep at it until at least 3 p.m. local time Tuesday. So how close are we? It's still anybody's guess. This much is apparent: Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic remains the difference between a NATO occupation and a NATO war. "Most Serbs would accept NATO troops rather than face its bombs...
...Serbs and the disparate Albanian groups have until Feb. 6 to sit down in a chateau in Rambouillet, 30 miles from Paris. Then they have a week, or at most two, to sign a formal pact in which Kosovo gets its autonomy for three years and Milosevic keeps his hands off. In 2002 the parties to the struggle, presumably cooled off, can negotiate a final arrangement...
Success at Rambouillet, if it comes, will carry a surprise for most Americans. Clinton still has to convince the nation that it's a good idea to provide up to a third of the peacekeeping force, estimated at 25,000, for an open-ended and risky mission. In Bosnia, U.S. forces were to be out in a year, but 6,900 are still on the ground after three years. This time three years will be the minimum. Some senior Republicans, including Bob Dole, are for it. John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says that since...
...really understands me." This anecdote leads into Zeldin's discussion of conversation and of one of his heroes, Socrates. In an age when monologue was dominant-gods or kings lectured while common folk listened-Socrates developed the revolutionary notion of the dialogue. Another conversational revolutionary was Madame de Rambouillet, who in the 18th century organized discourse in a new forum, the salon, that allowed men and women to talk to one another on an equal basis...