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NATO says it is doing its best to concentrate its fire on Serb military units in Kosovo, and yet reports are trickling out of its capital, Pristina, of large numbers of ethnic Albanian civilians whose homes, limbs and loved ones have been blown away by alliance munitions. Throughout Yugoslavia and even beyond its borders, weapons deemed "smart" and "precision-guided" have veered off target, destroying property and lives. On Monday -- only a day after NATO apologized for a Saturday air strike that killed 47 people on a civilian bus in Kosovo -- it was reported from Montenegro that the alliance...
...heavy onus on the fighters of the good fight to come clean when they mess up. And when they're evasive or even just slow about taking responsibility, their credibility is damaged. But for all of NATO's assurances that it is taking the utmost care to target the Serb military needle in the haystack of innocents, the reality is that Kosovo remains densely populated with civilians -- the majority of them still ethnic Albanian -- and the savagery of marauding Serb paramilitaries isn't the only danger they face...
...warned that NATO bombing would continue during his visit, and it's not as if he has any guarantee that Milosevic will see him -- although the propaganda coup of a photo opportunity with one of the keepers of Clinton's conscience will probably be too tempting for the Serb leader to pass...
...diplomatic dance may be the only show in town. Even as NATO mounted new air raids and Washington ordered 33,000 reserves into the theater to support an escalated air war, NATO commander Wesley Clark acknowledged that the air campaign has had little effect on Serb operations in Kosovo. And its political cost may grow as the alliance acknowledged Wednesday that one of its precision-guided bombs had missed its target in southern Serbia and landed in a residential area, where at least 17 civilians were killed. Both sides now appear to be ready for a peace deal, as long...
...road to Kosare rises along a nearly impassable dirt track rutted by farm tractors pulling loads of ammunition up the slopes. From the road it is easy to spot Serb-held towns in the valley below, many marked by rising columns of smoke. Ammunition boxes are stacked in small crevices. Soldiers huddle near fires made from the empty crates. Serbian shells scream continuously, reverberating through the canyons. Soldiers, some in uniform, others in track suits, carry everything from bolt-action carbines to Kalashnikovs. There are two questions: Where is the commander, and where are the Serbs...