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...peace. Now will the U.S. have to pay the same to end the killing in Kosovo? The Clinton Administration has long winced at the idea of going that far into the quicksand of Serbia's Kosovo province. But in defiance of the U.S.-brokered October cease-fire, the Serbs continue to massacre ethnic Albanians, and the implacable rebels keep smuggling in weaponry to pick off Serb forces, as both sides ready for a spring onslaught. So, last week the Clinton Administration and its NATO allies began the same risky investment to bring some kind of peace to Kosovo...
Their plan--coupling a prescription for political settlement with threats of military action if the deal fails--took firm shape, officials told TIME, when the Administration privately decided after the Serb massacre of ethnic Albanians at Racak on Jan. 15 that G.I.s would have to be deployed as peacekeepers. With that decision in her purse, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sped through Europe last week, pushing the allies into an ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned...
...optimist. The secretary of state's new peace plan for Kosovo "is more of a wish list than a proposal," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Although it extends NATO's military options to include peacekeeping ground troops, the plan is premised on a hypothetical agreement between the Serb government and ethnic Albanian rebels on autonomy -- but not independence -- for Kosovo. "The possibility of any agreement between the Serbs and the Albanians is very slight," says Anastasijevic. "Most ethnic Albanian parties won't even negotiate about anything short of independence, and Milosevic is exploiting that to maintain his own tough stand...
...NATO threatened to bomb him last October. But negotiations to reach a political settlement between Milosevic and the province's ethnic Albanians have stalled. U.S. diplomats managed to avert a major clash in the northern part of the province last Wednesday, when they persuaded Albanian guerrillas to free eight Serb army soldiers, but by the end of the week 45 ethnic Albanians were killed by Serb forces in the south. The White House fears the two sides will be in a full-scale war when the snows melt. "The hottest spot in the world this spring is going...
...plight of the Russians doesn't tweak your heart strings, how about the Albanian Kosovans. The Serb's have renewed their project of ethnic cleansing in that region, ejecting the chief U.S. peace-verifier, massacring at least one village and commencing the artillery bombardment of others...