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...emissaries to discuss voluntarily giving up their weapons." Nowhere is that sense of betrayal stronger, perhaps, than among the couple dozen Macedonian Slavs manning a roadblock on the road from Skopje north to the border with Kosovo - the main line of ground communication for NATO's operations in the Serb province. Macedonian Slavs make up the majority of the estimated 64,000 people displaced from villages in majority ethnic Albanian regions now controlled by the N.L.A. "We know this picture from Kosovo," said a black-clad elderly woman from the village of Neprosteno, near the majority ethnic Albanian city...
...Many of the rank-and-file guerrillas and regional commanders openly express their enthusiasm for a "Greater Albania" - the mirror image of Slobodan Milosevic's "Greater Serbia" campaign, which spawned separatist military campaigns among the Serb minorities of Serbia's neighboring states. But their leaders insist they got most of what they wanted out of the Skopje political agreement, and the time has come to put down their weapons. And those leaders have plenty of reasons to crow about the outcome. Three months ago, NATO leaders were still denouncing the NLA as "terrorists" and "murderers in the hills"; now fresh...
CONVICTED. RADISLAV KRSTIC, 53, former Bosnian Serb general; of genocide; for the July 1995 killing of more than 7,000 Muslims at the U.N.-protected enclave of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia; by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal at the Hague. The one-legged (from a mine explosion) ex-general received the first genocide conviction handed down by the tribunal and, after the judge said Krstic had "agreed to evil," its longest sentence--46 years in prison...
...afoot. According to reports in Pale, he recently changed his bodyguard; the detail is now believed to consist of about a dozen hard-core paramilitaries, or no more than can travel in three vehicles. NATO officials say Karadzic is moving around regularly. He travels in and out of the Serb Republic and across to neighboring Montenegro, where he was born and which can be reached by trails across the mountains...
...Karadzic are ones NATO would like to have. In Sarajevo in July, Robertson was emphatic. "We don't know where he is," said the Secretary-General. "If we knew, he would be arrested. Make no mistake about that." That line is echoed--less credibly--by officials in the Serb Republic, who claim that they have no useful intelligence and that, in any event, Karadzic isn't on their turf. Nonsense, says Del Ponte. "At any given time, the authorities of the Serb Republic know, or are in a position to know, the whereabouts of our most-wanted fugitives...