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Finally, some bad news for Slobodan Milosevic that's good news for the Serbs. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced Wednesday that the U.S. would lift sanctions against Yugoslavia if the country holds free and fair elections - even if they result in a Milosevic victory. That's a retreat from the more extreme U.S. position that had insisted sanctions would remain in place until Milosevic is ousted - through elections or not - and brings Washington more into line with the thinking of European NATO members and the Serbian opposition. "Most important," says TIME Washington correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, "the policy shift makes...
...Slobodan Milosevic?s secret weapon may be NATO. Opposition leader Zoran Djindjic vowed Thursday to keep up daily anti-Milosevic demonstrations despite Wednesday night?s violent police crackdown. But even if the fractured opposition does manage to overcome its differences, the fact that NATO appears unable or unwilling to stop terror attacks on the territory?s remaining Serb population creates fertile ground for Milosevic. "Kosovar Serbs are frightened because nobody?s protecting them from these systematic, well-organized attacks and the culprits are never caught," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The alliance lacks a strategy," he adds...
...since Pinochet?s arrest, Britain has joined the U.S. and other NATO allies in the Kosovo war, which was based on the idea that Yugoslavian sovereignty was less important than its crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Indeed, it becomes difficult while pressing for Slobodan Milosevic to be tried in the Hague for crimes against his own citizenry to argue that the charges against Pinochet ?- whose regime murdered at least 3,000 of its political opponents ?- are a domestic matter. But even if a British Magistrate?s Court upholds Spain?s extradition request, the 83-year-old general will still have...
...deal-making. Perhaps this is the most important lesson from the corrosive experience of Iraq, we must be careful not to cut connections with powerful despots, for they may be our only chance to help their nation's people. As we stare into the eyes of Slobodan Milosevic today, and the leaders of Indonesia, Pakistan, North Korea or China tomorrow, we cannot overestimate the power of the peaceful solution and working through the existing channels of power...
...They did, and there he was ? he had been lurking somewhere nearby." The stunt didn?t go over too well in other parts of the crowd, where those who saw through it met Draskovic with boos. No wonder ? not only was he recreating a bit of fakery perpetrated by Slobodan himself on that very spot 10 years earlier, Draskovic stood as a living reminder why the popular opposition to Milosevic, despite a rally turnout exceeding 50,000 people, still doesn?t stand a chance...