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...pretty much the same as it has been for the last 73 days. NATO continued to let loose from the air, bombing targets both in and outside of Kosovo. Serb mortars landed in Albania, scattering refugees and relief workers, and Milosevic's armies continued to do battle with KLA troops. "The fighting isn't over yet," said NATO military spokesman Gen. Walter Jertz. "Serb forces will not halt their operations until their commanders give them the order. There is hope that will happen soon." Negotiations over the timetable for Serb troop withdrawals were expected to resume Sunday night and continue...
Belgrade for its part said Tuesday it was ready to "cut a deal" based on the Bonn accord despite reservations over some of its provisions. Of course, mediators still face the challenge of choreographing the sequence of agreements, troop withdrawals and bombing halts that will define the peace process. G8 envoys met in Bonn Wednesday to finesse the peace plan and draft a U.N. resolution authorizing it. The big losers in any diplomatic solution may be the Kosovo Liberation Army, who had enjoyed something of an informal alliance with NATO during the past eight weeks. The G8 principles call...
...Lucas obviously did not set out to make a smarter Star Wars. His characters troop along to a Jedi-like tripartite climax, one battle in space, another on the ground and a third between lightsabers. This is not a movie that shows 20 years of maturation; it is not innovative, it is not artistically brave; there are no rowdy droids rambling on to a techno beat, no wary characterization that plays to the audience that has grown up since Return of the Jedi...
...Serbs showed "Wag the Dog" when the bombing began, and now Belgrade is venturing into creating its own made-for-TV events. The Yugoslav army staged a tiny "troop withdrawal" Thursday, moving about 120 soldiers out of Kosovo before assembled Western reporters at a border post. A senior officer then spun the reporters the line that the only thing slowing Yugoslav withdrawal was NATO's continued bombing. It was a lame stunt, but it pointed to the key obstacle to a Russian-mediated peace process: Moscow wants a simultaneous Yugoslav withdrawal and cessation of NATO's bombing, but NATO...
...quieter diplomatic peace overtures by the Russians, there was no letup in NATO's air war. Last week the Pentagon announced that 10 additional B-52 heavy bombers would join several others launching attacks against Yugoslavia. The additional bombers will add 500-lb. iron bombs for attacks on troop concentrations, as well as precision-guided, Israeli-made missiles that carry 1,000-lb. warheads. Meanwhile, about 12 hours before word of the release reached Washington, Clinton imposed a U.S. trade embargo on the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, intent on choking off the supply of oil to Milosevic's military...