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...soil. And that would give Milosevic a pretext to send in his army - right on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, when nobody's going to be in a hurry to make new military commitments abroad. The combination of draconian political laws and a hopelessly divided Serbian opposition has left Milosevic sufficiently confident to seek a fourth term in the fall. He's not exactly feeling the heat, but he could be turning it up come September...
...while Washington may have insisted that democracy is the precondition for rehabilitating Serbia, that won't necessarily end all of the Balkan troubles: Slobodan Milosevic may be a despot and a demagogue, but the troubling reality is that most of the Serbian opposition accepted the principle that their nation should fight to hold on to Kosovo...
Manojlovic has been taking extreme risks. She is one of a growing number of young Serbs--30,000 by the latest estimates--who have joined the movement known as Otpor, Serbian for resistance. Virtually unknown until a few months ago, the group is generating as much anti-Milosevic heat as anything since the end of the NATO campaign a year ago. Otpor has few leaders, relying instead on an informal web of student connections. And unlike the country's traditional opposition groups, which spend more time jockeying for power than pushing for change, Otpor has no political ambitions, according...
Somebody wanted Vuk Draskovic dead, but it may not have been Slobodan Milosevic - after all, the Serbian strongman has little reason to fear the veteran opposition leader these days. In contrast to the string of professional hits that have eliminated both friend and foe of the Milosevic regime over the past year, Friday's attempt on Draskovic was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair, the gunmen spraying the opposition leader's holiday apartment with automatic rifle fire while he was vacationing in Montenegro. But not even an attempt on his life is likely to restore his declining political fortunes...
...Serb military, police and paramilitary against 1 1/2 million virtually defenseless ethnic Albanians. More than 250 fixed targets were attacked, including airfields, communications facilities, fuel depots, and military and police headquarters. The more than 1,000 strikes conducted against enemy forces in Kosovo--while not destroying as much Serbian military equipment as analysts initially thought--kept these forces largely undercover and ineffective...