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...envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin flew into Belgrade alone Friday, having been stood up once again by the European Union's mediator, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. After three-way talks with U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott in Moscow, Ahtisaari went instead to Germany for talks with EU president and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, although Chernomyrdin promised that he and the Finn would return to Belgrade next week. "Things are not looking good on the diplomatic front right now," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "The indictment doesn't preclude negotiations over military control over Kosovo, although some believe it may make...
...campaign. One key indicator to watch for signs of a diplomatic breakthrough is Ahtisaari's itinerary, since he has said he won't meet with Milosevic until NATO and Russia agree to a workable peace deal. And instead of going to Belgrade Friday, he went back to confer with Schroeder, the man who dragged him into all of this...
...Will star NYPD Blue's Rick Schroeder or James Van Der Beek (Dawson's Creek) as Anakin Skywalker (untrue--the part hasn't yet been cast...
...President Clinton again compared Slobodan Milosevic's campaign in Kosovo with the Holocaust, and the First Lady visited refugees in Macedonia Friday and likened their plight to that of the characters in "Schindler's List" and "Sophie's Choice." Meanwhile, Germany's Green party, the junior partner in Chancellor Schroeder's coalition government, called for a temporary halt to bombing to give diplomacy a chance. "The administration is emphasizing the plight of the refugees in order to stop an ebb in public support for the bombing," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The public isn't opposed to the bombing...
...kept right on bombing Yugoslavia Monday night and shot down a MIG-29 fighter Tuesday, despite urgings to President Clinton from both the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin. But before departing for Europe for a meeting with NATO secretary general Javier Solana and German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Clinton did offer a significant concession to European fears that Washington may be being too intransigent: The President suggested NATO might call a temporary halt to its air campaign if that would aid the "larger purpose" of stopping Serb repression in Kosovo. In other words, Washington is ready...