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...Serbia may be dragging its feet over withdrawing from Kosovo, but NATO will let President Milosevic off the hook despite issuing stern warnings on Thursday. "Holbrooke's agreement has been designed to allow everyone to save face," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Milosevic is proclaiming himself the hero -- and silencing Serbs who disagree -- while NATO is able to recover some of its diminished prestige in the region: "NATO has managed to make it look as if they backed Milosevic down without actually having to bomb, which nobody really wanted to do," says Calabresi...
...said he has been backing aggressive action against Serbia since last March, but the administration and NATO have done nothing. "The genocide has been taking place. The damage has been done," Lott said. "Now and only now they prepare to take serious action. I think that is curious...
...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...
...West is waving the big stick at Serbia again, but it doesn't appear to be scaring President Slobodan Milosevic. Although the U.N. Security Council was expected on Wednesday to pass a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Kosovo, Serb troops continued to launch attacks on rebel-held villages, sending tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians fleeing from the territory...
...friend Saddam Hussein and head off the Gulf War. Since then he has been head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, which succeeded the KGB. As Foreign Minister, he has done his best to prevent the expansion of NATO, lift the sanctions on Iraq and forestall Western military action against Serbia. Even so, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has gone out of her way to maintain a good working relationship with him. Last July at a banquet in Manila, the two sang a parody of the duet from West Side Story, with Albright warbling, "The most beautiful song I ever heard...