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Just last week, a crowd of Serbs attacked peacekeepers while they cleared Serb forces from an ethnically mixed section of the city...
...Serb and the Croat recognize each other on a London bus. A fight begins instantly. They end up in a shared hospital room, attempting to sabotage each other's life-support systems. By the end of Beautiful People they are contentedly playing cards together...
...Yugoslav leadership--30 to 70 young men claiming to represent the 70,000 to 80,000 ethnic Albanians still living under Slobodan Milosevic in southern Serbia. Their group's name: Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, or, in Albanian, the UCPMB. Since January it has staged ambushes on Serb police, provoking reprisals. The killings and the sudden emergence of the UCPMB bear a striking resemblance to the maneuverings three years ago of the Kosovo Liberation Army. "This is an unfinished war," says an Albanian editor in Pristina. Indeed, the Presevo Valley is expected to share...
...region is predominantly ethnic Albanian, but like Kosovo before last year's NATO bombing, its power structure is dominated by Serbs. It was at the Jan. 27 funeral of two woodcutters allegedly executed by Serb security forces that nine former K.L.A. soldiers first declared their intention to resist. "We have no other option than to protect ourselves," says the UCPMB founder, a 35-year-old former car mechanic who insists on anonymity. Belgrade's plans remain unclear, though NATO intelligence has reported an increase in police and army activity along the Kosovo border. Officially, Belgrade calls the group U.S.-backed...
...their influence to stop the insurgency. Last month nato Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark met with Sami Lushtaku and other former K.L.A. leaders. Says Lushtaku: "He looked me straight in the eyes and said, 'Back off. Control your people.'" The nightmare scenario for nato is a massacre by Serb police, a flood of refugees and attendant publicity that would be hard for nato to ignore. Then Presevo really could become Kosovo...