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...troops came under fire for the first time in Kosovo today, after blowing up a supply route used by Albanian separatist guerrillas who've been mounting provocative attacks across the border inside Serbia. Are the changes under way in Washington and the coming elections for the Yugoslav parliament prompting the region's Albanian nationalists to ratchet up their campaign for independence for Kosovo...
...Well, the attacks in the Presevo Valley area are a campaign issue for all the parties in the Yugoslav election. Milosevic's party is using them to propagate conspiracy theories, saying it's another American plot to dismember Serbia. For President Kostunica's coalition, this has been a chance to prove that they can handle this sort of crisis in a different way than the former regime, and actually cooperate with the international community to solve the problem. The problem is that the guerrillas have no interest in giving up. And of course the wider Kosovo Albanian population, even...
...ouster of Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic [WORLD, Oct. 16] was a triumph of justice over greed and deception. There could never be adequate punishment in any court for Milosevic. But his defeat is proof that when people unite, energy is released that conquers evil. CHITRA AMARNATH New Delhi...
...fast-food chains have become the lightning rod for anti-U.S. rage worldwide over the past decade. From Bombay to Rome, London to Mexico City, the wide windows of the fast food franchises have become something of a traditional target for crowds protesting everything from the bombing of Serbia or the entry of U.S. corporations into India's catering market to globalization in general. U.S. embassies may be impregnable, but the wide windows of McDonald's and KFC are a tempting forest of windmills for Nike-clad Quixotes everywhere in the world who want to tilt at symbols...
...Kosovo side of the border, it has also warned Belgrade against sending troops into the buffer zone. But for President Kostunica, the continued presence of hundreds of heavily armed guerrillas from Kosovo on Serbian soil killing Serbian policemen is intolerable - particularly when the Milosevic-led opposition is charging that Serbia's government is now in the hands of its enemies. Kostunica's message to NATO has been, essentially, either the West deals with the problem or Belgrade will. But that's precisely what the former KLA men who've returned to arms want: Their goal is to annex the Presevo...