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...there was any doubt that Slobodan Milosevic was at the heart of this transformation of terror, it ended last week when a U.N. war-crimes tribunal announced it had indicted him and his subordinates on four counts for Serbian actions in Kosovo. It was the first time such a tribunal had ever indicted a sitting head of state, but the monstrosity of what has happened in Kosovo, the tribunal explained, demanded dramatic action. The evidence is easy to see, both inside Kosovo and outside its borders. Kosovars in the refugee camps of Macedonia and Albania have few comforts other than...
...handed over by the Serbs, despite the NATO members' vow to deny all economic assistance to Yugoslavia until Milosevic is ousted from power. "The vast majority of Serbs regard the Hague Tribunal as just another vehicle of NATO," says Anastasijevic. "Even the most liberal elements on the Serbian political scene think indicting Milosevic was a bad idea, because it gives him further incentive to use any means available to stay in power." In Hollywood, of course, that?s a perfect setup for a sequel...
...happen to the 400,000 Kosovars crowded into Albania if the choppers fly. "If we launch attacks from Albania, the Serbs aren't going to see it as a neutral country," a Joint Staff planner says. "And a lot of those refugees are in crowded camps within range of Serbian artillery." Already smarting over charges that the allied bombing accelerated Milosevic's ethnic cleansing, the Pentagon doesn't want to be blamed for triggering more civilian carnage...
...troops "unthinkable" and pledged to block any alliance combat on land. From London came the opposite, a steady drumbeat of demands by the Blair government to start assembling a ground force that could go into Kosovo even without agreement from Milosevic. Long after the threat might have spooked the Serbian leader, Clinton for the first time last week reserved the right to send in ground troops. Two days later, NATO Commander Clark visited the Pentagon to push for deployment of the 50,000 ground troops, trying to make sure they'd be there before the snow flies. But Italy...
...Unless NATO reaches a credible consensus to gather a serious invasion force, the Tower of Babel talk won't do much to move Milosevic. Threatening to dispatch troops at the start might have given him pause, or at least forced some of his soldiers to stay home and protect Serbian borders instead of depopulating Kosovo. Had a relatively small ground force been deployed by now, it could have made the air war more lethal by spotting targets and flushing Serbian armor from hiding. But now the noisy, public ground-troops debates seem more likely to crack apart NATO than...