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...issues of sovereignty and national honor took up much of the Saturday morning negotiations between Milosevic and Jackson's four-member delegation. "He began with the historic picture," says the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, the co-leader of the Jackson group, of Milosevic's sermon on Serbian history. "That took a while." Jackson, she told TIME, responded with an equally lengthy exposition on the private, humanitarian nature of the trip and on the value of trying to break a stalemate between the West and Yugoslavia. Says Campbell: "The sticking point was always who goes first. We went back and forth...
JESSE JACKSON The Rev. goes to Belgrade and gets POWs back. Slobo's playing chess, but Jesse gets war's only glory...
...podium's most popular orator may have been Rev. Hugh M. Hill '48--more widely known as Brother Blue--who said he was inspired to attend because he admires the work of Eliot Professor of Education Charles V. Willie...
...moment, there seems to be some diplomatic progress. The release on May 1 of the three detained U.S. servicemen following the mission of the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Belgrade is a welcome sign. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has shown that he would accept a U.N. force in Kosovo, albeit small and lightly armed. NATO has also rightly involved Russia in the diplomatic process, perhaps to make amends for excluding Russia at the start of the conflictnand should include in the diplomatic process the concerns of neighbors such as Montenegro and Macedonia and of nearby NATO members such as Hungary, Italy...
...because the 19 hung together. But the unity doesn't extend much beyond a consensus that the best thing these nations can do is hang together--for now. There are hints of cracks to come. Some of the allies are worried that NATO is dangerously remiss in failing to rev up planning for a ground campaign. Still others--recoiling from the live possibility of putting "our boys" on Balkan ground--are pressing for any negotiated way out. And few in the alliance can yet name the specifics of a peace plan: some nations dread the idea of an independent Kosovo...