Word: wallers
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...town of Belacevac and prepared for an onslaught on the besieged town of Kijevo -- dubbed "the most dangerous place in Europe" by U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke last week. "A full-scale Serbian offensive against the KLA will force NATO to take action against the Serbs," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, who last week accompanied Holbrooke on a futile peace mission in the region. "Although the Serbs could easily squash the KLA, that would trigger a bloody civil war throughout the region" -- a war NATO fears would destabilize the region and create a massive refugee problem...
...Holbrooke got President Milosevic to hold back on his offensive last week in the hope that the U.S. could broker a deal with the KLA. "But in the end, Holbrooke could offer Milosevic nothing from the KLA," says Waller. "Right now, the U.S. can't even find the organization's leader...
...These days countries know they can go around the White House and make a direct appeal to Congress,? says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. ?That?s definitely had a chilling effect on Washington?s ultimatum to Israel.? Indeed, Mideast policy may be something of a lost cause in a U.S. election year...
...point satellite intelligence to anticipate Pakistan's test of a nuclear device in the near future. The signs are hard to miss: ?To stop Pakistan from testing, the G8 summit would have had to come out with tangible and strong penalties against India,? says TIME intelligence correspondent Douglas Waller. ?But the summit came up only with rhetoric, not concrete measures...
...With Pakistan already under U.S. sanctions for its nuclear program, adds Waller, ?there are not many levers left to pull." And pressure from Islamic fundamentalists and other opposition parties is likely to spur Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to test. ?Most observers here would be amazed if a test does not take place,? reports TIME Islamabad correspondent Hannah Bloch...