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...NATO's clock has stopped. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke returned to Belgrade Thursday to issue yet another "last warning" to Milosevic. "Holbrooke returned in search of a deal," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But it's difficult for Milosevic to accept the large-scale withdrawal of Serb police demanded by the West, because that won't go over well with Kosovo's Serb minority...
...situation in Kosovo is admittedly complex. The struggle of the Albanian rebels against the governing Serb regime raises difficult questions about claims to self-determination and the integrity of nation-states. But one thing is clear: the brutal nature of the Serb crackdown under the leadership of President Slobodan Milosevic ought to be recorded as one more count on Milosevic's already existing war crime indictment...
Thankfully, the administration has moved closer to the launch of air-strikes against Serb positions. In 1995, similar strikes helped bring about the lull in hostilities that allowed the negotiation of the Dayton Peace Accords. We hope that Milosevic yields to diplomatic pressure, but if military force is necessary to halt the bloodshed...
...last month, the Serb leader had turned his counteroffensive against the rebel army into a campaign of terror against Albanian villages. Suddenly, whole sections of the population were being driven from their homes, but the Western response remained inaudible. In part, critics charge that the U.S. tacitly let Milosevic go ahead because the West also wanted to break the back of the rebel army, whose lack of structure threatened regional stability...
...last week the Security Council finally passed a Franco-British resolution demanding that Milosevic halt his offensive and begin negotiations or face the possibility of armed intervention. The attack plan calls for U.S. cruise missiles to be launched first against Serb military targets in Kosovo; then, if needed, NATO would mount a wider air campaign outside Kosovo against security facilities in Serbia...