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...issues of sovereignty and national honor took up much of the Saturday morning negotiations between Milosevic and Jackson's four-member delegation. "He began with the historic picture," says the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, the co-leader of the Jackson group, of Milosevic's sermon on Serbian history. "That took a while." Jackson, she told TIME, responded with an equally lengthy exposition on the private, humanitarian nature of the trip and on the value of trying to break a stalemate between the West and Yugoslavia. Says Campbell: "The sticking point was always who goes first. We went back and forth...
Earlier this week, the Reverend Jesse Jackson traveled to Belgrade on a "mission of faith." Jackson met with Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, joined hands in prayer with him and succeeded in securing the release of three American POWs...
Tanjug news agency, the mouthpiece of the Serbian government, was attacking the American media for spreading what it says are fabricated stories of intimidation, mass execution and rape in the rebellious province of Kosovo. In poorly-translated English, the Serbs were trying to put their own spin on the war news, detailing the destruction caused by NATO bombing...
...Internet poses a real threat to Milosevic. It would be naive to think that if the free press returned to Yugoslavia, the Serbian people would suddenly turn against their president and his genocidal campaign in Kosovo; the situation is far more complicated than that. But especially in a war that NATO has made clear it wants to end not with a military victory but with a negotiated settlement, free access to independent media might be part of the solution...
Yelling "stop the bombing, stop the war" into abullhorn, Velickovic joins about 200 people at theCopley Square protest, organized by Vlajkovic'schurch and the Serbian-American Alliance of NewEngland...