Word: restarting
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Ehud Barak may be lauded in Western and Arab capitals as a champion of peace, but now that they've actually got down to dealing, the Palestinians have found they've bitten into a tough cookie. Barak and Yasser Arafat had a meeting Tuesday aimed at restarting the peace process, and the outcome was anything but positive. "The atmosphere in the meeting was tense and the gulf between the two sides? positions remains deep and wide," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Despite Arafat?s reluctant agreement to respond in two weeks to Barak?s proposal to delay land...
...elements within the Chinese leadership. NATO now faces the increasingly complicated challenge of maintaining its hard-won accord with Russia over the peace process at the same time as maintaining pressure on Belgrade. "NATO won't easily suspend the bombing because it knows it may be politically unable to restart it," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The alliance may even have been planning to intensify the bombing in the hope of making Milosevic more compliant." It had been left to Russia to coax symmetrical concessions out of NATO and Belgrade to kick-start the peace process. While the Chinese...
...Washington by raising pressure inside the alliance to halt the bombing. "The U.S. won't want to halt the bombing easily, especially now that the Pentagon feels it's beginning to move in their favor," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Once halted, it will be extremely difficult to restart the air campaign." And NATO commanders will be reluctant to give up their only leverage over Belgrade this early in the endgame...
...roommate, entryway-mates, and pre-froshwatched, he tried to restart his computer and gotonly a blank screen with the message, "Disk BootFailure," he said...
...that Milosevic cannot be relied on to obey international human rights conventions, so his compliance with international agreements may be unsteady. If the bombing stopped first, Yugoslavia could easily delay the withdrawal of troops long enough to continue its ethnic cleansing, and it would be politically near-impossible to restart the strikes with this delay as the only justification. Furthermore, civilian observers will not be enough: The ethnic cleansing currently taking place makes it clear that the Kosovar Albanians deserve military protection from Yugoslav rule...