Word: strikingly
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...Most of NATO is ready to strike, but Italy is suddenly demanding that the issue be referred back to the U.N. Security Council (where Russia would almost certainly veto a strike). Rome's support is crucial since Italy provides most of the air bases to be used in the strike, but demurring on Kosovo may be part of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's domestic strategy to keep a Communist faction from bolting his fragile coalition. NATO officials are confident of getting Italy on board, but the continuation of eleventh-hour talks in Belgrade suggest that there...
...Pristina, Kosovo is ablaze as Serbian security forces pursue their deadly dismantling of the ethnic-Albanian rebellion. First comes artillery fire, targeting suspected Kosovo Liberation Army bases in a village. Then armored infantry rolls in to take over the town. Finally foot soldiers arrive, looting and burning, to strike terror among ethnic-Albanian villagers. Despite the first snows in the mountains, hundreds of thousands flee their homes. Some find shelter with relatives, others in neighboring Albania or Montenegro, but tens of thousands are still in the remote hills and forests of the embattled province, where they huddle in rough outdoor...
...that is a small price to pay to ensure his or her re-election. And the President is more desperate than usual to keep Congressmen happy. None of this, of course, is lost on the Joint Chiefs. And you've got to give them credit: they know when to strike...
NATO may be shaping up to strike the Serbs in Kosovo, but it's also giving President Slobodan Milosevic a wide escape route. Hoping to force a cease-fire without actually firing a shot, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke shuttled between Belgrade and Kosovo Tuesday promoting a deal in which negotiations over the region's final political status are deferred for three years...
...Milosevic is likely to wait until the last possible moment and then make enough concessions to avert an air strike," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Belgrade has already declared an end to its offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo, and will likely make further commitments to avoid attack. U.N. and NATO sources insist that Milosevic has not yet complied with international demands, but further concessions could leave NATO in a difficult position. Says Dowell, "Skeptics believe that if NATO had really been planning to intervene in Kosovo, it should have done so a long time...